It is the first in 14 years .. Syria issues a new shipment

A Syrian energy official told a Reuters, “Syria has released 600,000 barrels of heavy crude oil from the port of Tartous, on Monday, which is the first official export operations known to Syrian oil in 14 years.

Syria was exporting 380 thousand barrels of oil per day in 2010, that is, a year before the protests against Bashar al -Assad’s rule turned into a war that lasted for nearly 14 years that destroyed the country’s economy and infrastructure, including crude oil production. Assad was overthrown in December last year, and the government that came to rule after him to revive the Syrian economy and the assistant director of the General Department of Oil and Gas at the Syrian Energy Ministry, Riyad Jobasi to Reuters, said that a company It is “Berf Energy” that bought heavy crude oil.