The former Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources' archived news items on its plan follow-up meetings state the country's oil production for dated periods from 2011 to 2021, on measures that change: the item on 2013 puts total oil produced in Syria at an average of 28,000 barrels a day, and the item on 2021 gives about 31.4 million barrels, including up to 70,000 barrels a day taken from fields it calls occupied
Claim ID
OILPROD-004
Exact or summary claim
The former Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources' archived news items on its plan follow-up meetings state the country's oil production for dated periods from 2011 to 2021, on measures that change: the item on 2013 puts total oil produced in Syria at an average of 28,000 barrels a day, and the item on 2021 gives about 31.4 million barrels, including up to 70,000 barrels a day taken from fields it calls occupied
Destination
Chapter 9 line 143
Status
QUALIFIED
Source
SRC-752, SRC-753, SRC-754
Source type
Ministry website news items, archived
Published
2014 to 2022
Accessed
2026-09-29
Measure and scope
Oil, barrels, Syria, by period: crude oil (1 January to 30 September 2011); total oil produced in Syria (2013, Q1 and H1 2014); oil produced and delivered to the Homs refinery or the refineries (2014, 2015 and their parts); light oil produced and delivered (Q1 and H1 2016); light oil produced (Q1 2017); oil production (2021, including fields outside government control); no method, source table or geography stated
Known conflict
Not reconciled with OILPROD-003 (the Statistical Abstract, thousand cubic metres, whose 2021 row is 4,902) or OILPROD-001 (2024) or OILPROD-002 (company, 2009); the measures differ between the ministry's own periods || Amended 29 September 2026 (audits/reports/CLOSING_review_09_2026-09-29.md F-1, F-2): the items state oil for the first nine months of 2011, 2013 to the first quarter of 2017 and 2021, and gas from 2013 on, as raw gas («الغاز الخام») to the first quarter of 2017 and as natural gas («الغاز الطبيعي») for 2021; the 2011 lead held states oil only; the 2016 items state light oil produced and delivered, the first quarter of 2017 light oil produced («النفط الخفيف المنتج», no «المسلم»). Any wording in this row that says raw gas for 2011 or 2021, or delivered for the first quarter of 2017, is superseded by this note.
Specialist
Petroleum production measurement
Downstream
Chapter 9 lines 143 and 147
Action
Print only as the ministry's statements, each figure with its period and measure, the 2021 total with its inclusion of fields outside government control, and the absence of a method; never joined to the abstract, to any company figure or to any 2024 or 2026 figure; the ministry's attribution of the 2021 losses to named forces is not repeated in prose