“We have reactivated the same contract and crude oil is being supplied from northeast Syria to the refineries in Homs and Banias,” said Ahmad Sulaiman, the head of the Syrian oil ministry’s public relations office.
The “same old contract that was previously in effect has been reviewed and amended,” he added.
The oil ministry had said earlier in February that they would be reviewing and assessing the legal validity of all oil agreements and contracts signed by the toppled regime of Bashar al-Assad.
“The [crude oil] is being transferred by tankers and more than 15,000 barrels of oil are being transferred each day, in addition to [liquefied petroleum] gas used in homes and natural gas. Between 500,000 to 1,000,000 cubic meters of natural gas are being transferred to electric power generation plants,” Sulaiman said.
Earlier this month, Sulaiman had told Rudaw that before the start of the civil war, Syria produced about 385,000 barrels of oil daily and production from Damascus-controlled areas now stands at 10,000 barrels per day.
The new leadership in Damascus is currently engaged in talks with the Kurdish-led administration in northeast Syria (Rojava) about the future of the areas they control.
