Government Expects Oil Production to Reach 100,000 bopd Following Control of the Northeast

Following the Syrian government’s takeover of the Raqqa and Deir-ez-Zor governorates and parts of the southern countryside of the Hassakeh governorate, Damascus has regained access to the core of Syria’s oil and gas wealth. A source at the Syrian Petroleum Company explained that oil production west of the Euphrates stood at 10,600 barrels of oil per day (bopd), and that, following the takeover of fields in the northeast, production has increased to 26,000 bopd, but could reach 45,000 bopd in a few months, pending maintenance works.