The Ministry of Energy's home page states Syria's crude oil reserves as 2.4 billion barrels, with no date, source or method
Claim ID
OILRES-002
Exact or summary claim
The Ministry of Energy's home page states Syria's crude oil reserves as 2.4 billion barrels, with no date, source or method
Destination
Chapter 9 line 145
Status
QUALIFIED
Source
SRC-696
Source type
Ministry website statement
Published
n.d.
Accessed
2026-08-24
Measure and scope
Crude oil reserves, barrels, Syria, undated; the page says reserves (احتياطي) without saying proved, probable or in place
Known conflict
Differs from OILRES-001 (the Oil and Gas Journal's 2.5 billion, a liquids aggregate including natural gas liquids, carried unchanged 2021 to 2026); the two are different measures and neither is audited
Specialist
Petroleum reserves reporting
Downstream
Chapter 9 lines 145 and 167
Action
Print only as what the ministry's home page states, undated, with no date, source or method; never as a proved-reserve figure; never averaged with or substituted for OILRES-001