Total, Eni Among 12 Companies Bidding for Syria Blocks
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Total SA, Eni SpA, China National Petroleum Corp. and nine other companies submitted 14 bids for rights to explore eight oil blocks in Syria, Deputy Oil Minister Hassan Zainab said today.
Suncor Energy Inc., Canada’s largest oil company that operates in Syria as PetroCanada, U.K. explorer Gulfsands Petroleum Plc, Dallas-based Improved Petroleum Recovery, and other Swedish and Arabic companies also bid, he said in a telephone interview from Damascus.