Syria has selected an offshore location for its first deep-water oil and gas exploration project involving US energy company Chevron and Qatar’s UCC Holding, the Syrian Petroleum Company. Syria’s territorial waters in the eastern Mediterranean are considered strategically important due to major natural gas discoveries in recent years involving Egypt, Israel, Cyprus and Lebanon. According to Tawil, onshore oil production had previously served as a central source of state reven

The Syrian Telecommunications Company signed an agreement in Tartus with Spain’s Medusa to lay Syria’s first international submarine cable through the Mediterranean Sea, a project officials say will directly connect the country to the global internet for the first time. According to the Syrian Ministry of Communications, the project will “improve the quality of internet services and increase the international capacity for data transmission,” changes that are expected to stren