US,
British, French, Israeli and other energy interests could be prime
beneficiaries of a major offensive on Syria designed to rollback the
power of the ‘Islamic State’ (ISIS) and, potentially the Assad
regime.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Authored by
Steven A. Bowman, a Senior Geoscientist for the French energy company
CGGVeritas, the study identified “three sedimentary basins,
Levantine, Cyprus, and Latakia, located in offshore Syria” and
highlighted “significant evidence for a working petroleum system
in offshore Syria with numerous onshore oil and gas shows, DHIs
(direct hydrocarbon indicators) observed on seismic, and oil seeps
identified from satellite imagery.”
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