The Third Syrian International oil and gas conference, exhibition

The Third Syrian International Oil AND Gas Exhibition " SYROIL 2002" was opened on April 1st in Damascus's International Fair ground, through April 4th, featuring outstanding and extensive exhibition of Oil And Gas equipment and services.

The inauguration ceremony was held under the patronage of the Syrian prime minister Muhammad Mustafa Miro and was opened by the Syrian oil minister and attended by high ranking officials. The SYROIL 2002 brought together 219 Arab, national and international companies, representing 32 countries. Over 6800 trade visitors attended the exhibition and the seminar so far, their expertise varied from senior petroleum engineers and managers, reservoir engineers, drilling managers, geologists and geophysicists, process and refinery engineers, technical managers, consultants and experts, commercial managers and Businessmen from all the Arab region and the world.

SYROIL 2002 was organized by Allied Expo. ( Member of the Arab Union for International Exhibitions and Conferences.), a leading Syrian Exhibitions Organization Company.

Syria is one of the pioneer of Oil And Gas activities in the Middle East. Through its long history of success, the Syrian Oil And Gas industry has always been interactive with every change facing the industry worldwide. SYROIL has firmly established itself as the most important platform for the Oil And Gas industry in Syria and the surrounding regions for those companies interested in building up and expanding business and technology.

The new thing about this year exhibition is its coincidence with the first Syrian Oil And Gas conference to be set up by the ministry of oil and mineral resources in Syria at al-Assad Library between 2- 4 April 2002 "Oil And Gas Industry and the development challenges ."

On the other hand and at the fair ground, 18 seminar were held by the participating companies and covered the latest technological innovations in the oil and gas industry.

The Minister of oil and mineral resources Ibrahim Haddad said that oil and gas industry has nowadays become an important part of knowledge in the human societies brooding ambitious expectations to accomplish development and prosperity and in those countries which trying to maintain their social welfare.

He said that this industry is presently witnessing growing efficiency in the developing countries which are in bad need to the oil and gas venues and to strengthen their technologies level of their respective labor forces by improving their assimilation capabilities of the contemporaneous technology and implementing comprehensive social development programs.

The means of communications provided the concerned people and researches in the field of oil and gas with permanent and remote communications.

Nevertheless, scientific conferences have the peculiarity of handling direct meetings and negotiations by the scientists and experts on the recent issues of such industries.

Haddad said that convening a meeting that embraces the concerned people and specialists in order to reach to a better knowledge is the goal and objective of this conference.

Among topics discussed in seminars conducted during the conference ' s deliberations were the impact of the contemporaneous Technology on the future explorations of Oil & gas ( minimizing risks and costs ); Reinforced production methods and efficiency, and evaluating the Syrian experience in this field; Gas projects and the future, and the Gas industrialization; the challenges facing the refining industry and achieving the specifications of oil in the future; and the economic of oil & gas Industry.

Worthy mentioning that in view of the world circumstances which affected the exhibition industry in this period, SYROIL 2002 exhibition is deemed as a clear evidence of the success achieved buy the Syrian international Oil And Gas Exhibition at a time a numerous similar Exhibitions were cancelled in this region owing to the current political circumstances which constitutes a proof of the international confidence entrusted in the country's oil policy.