Western firms primed to cash in on Syria’s oil and gas ‘frontier’
by Nafeez Ahmed
This exclusive is published by INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a crowd-funded investigative journalism project
US, British,
French, Israeli and other energy interests could be prime beneficiaries
of military operations in Iraq and Syria designed to rollback the power
of the ‘Islamic State’ (ISIS) and, potentially, the Bashar al-Assad
regime.
French, Israeli and other energy interests could be prime beneficiaries
of military operations in Iraq and Syria designed to rollback the power
of the ‘Islamic State’ (ISIS) and, potentially, the Bashar al-Assad
regime.
A
study for a global oil services company backed by the French government
and linked to Britain’s Tory-led administration, published during the
height of the Arab Spring, hailed the significant “hydrocarbon
potential” of Syria’s offshore resources.
study for a global oil services company backed by the French government
and linked to Britain’s Tory-led administration, published during the
height of the Arab Spring, hailed the significant “hydrocarbon
potential” of Syria’s offshore resources.
The 2011 study was printed in GeoArabia,
a petroleum industry journal published by a Bahrain-based consultancy,
GulfPetroLink, which is sponsored by some of the world’s biggest oil
companies, including Chevron, ExxonMobil, Saudi Aramco, Shell, Total,
and BP.
a petroleum industry journal published by a Bahrain-based consultancy,
GulfPetroLink, which is sponsored by some of the world’s biggest oil
companies, including Chevron, ExxonMobil, Saudi Aramco, Shell, Total,
and BP.
GeoArabia’s
content has no open subscription system and is exclusively distributed
to transnational energy corporations, corporate sponsors and related
organisations, as well as some universities.
content has no open subscription system and is exclusively distributed
to transnational energy corporations, corporate sponsors and related
organisations, as well as some universities.
