Damascus says “direct and indirect loss” to the oil and gas sector in Syria since the March 2011 start of the country’s civil war have reached $48bn.
Oil minister Sulaiman al-‘Abbas, tells local daily al-Watan that since then “terrorist groups” have stolen a cumulative 43mn barrels crude and flared 1.2 bcm of gas. He says the regime, which produced 55mn cfd of gas in the first half of 2015, will try to maintain output at this level. (CONTINUED - 269 WORDS)
