Would sanctions against Syria’s oil industry be effective?
Importance of Oil Revenues Syria’s oil and gas industry is modest by global standards but it provides a considerable amount of the Assad regime’s income. According to IMF estimates, oil revenues...
View ArticleDrilling while Hama burns
As protesters die daily, and the international community mulls what further measures to take to isolate the Assad regime, it is business as usual in Syria’s oil industry and the international oil firms...
View ArticleOil companies & Syria – outlining the “Dictator Fine”
The United States applied an embargo on Syrian oil sales yesterday, and the EU has tasked its diplomatic force with drawing up similar plans for an oil embargo. But what can the Syrian opposition do?...
View ArticleSyria’s transit future: all pipelines lead to Damascus?
Between the rise of Hafez al-Assad in 1971 and the crisis engulfing his son’s government today, the Syrian energy sector seems to have come full circle. An oil importer in the 1950s and 60s with little...
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