Turkey Eyes Role in Syrian Oil and Gas Production

By Irina Slav – OilPrice.com

Turkey has signaled it wants to take part in the revival of oil and gas production in Syria, Bloomberg has reported, citing a statement by Turkey’s energy minister.

Speaking to the media, Alparslan Bayraktar said that Turkey was working to help Syria with its electricity supply, adding that expanding this role into oil and gas was also on the table.

“We are also studying the use of crude oil and natural gas for reconstruction of Syria,” Bayraktar said. “We plan to tell our counterparts how we can make contributions in that sense. Our objective is to develop these projects.”