Shaer gas field
Shaer gas field
The Shaer gas field (Arabic: حقل الشاعر, Al-Shaer gas field), also Sha'er, Shair, or Sha'ir gas field is a gas field in Syria,[1][2][3], 150km northwest of Palmyra, Homs Governorate. Its prime investor was Petro-Canada and it supplies gas to the Ebla[a] gas plant.[6] The field primarily produces non-associated gas, i.e., independent of oil production.
History
It was the bounty in several battles during 2014-2016 of the Syrian civil war. During the Eastern Homs offensive (2017) the field was recaptured from ISIL, see "Wagner Group activities in Syria" for more details.
In September 2017 the field restarted its supply of gas to Ebla.[7]
See also
- Sha'ir or shaer, a kind of pre-Islamic Arab poet believed to have magical powers.
- Al Shaer
- Tel Shair
Notes
References
- ^ Context: The Strategic Logic of Russian PMSC Operations in Syria. Syrian-Russian Energy Cooperation & Exploitation of the Hayan Gas Block, June 5, 2020
- ^ Rondeaux, Candace (2020). "Context". Inquiry into the Murder of Hamdi Bouta and Wagner Group Operations at the Al-Shaer Gas Plant, Homs, Syria 2017. New America. pp. 17–26. JSTOR resrep25419.6.
- ^ Almohamad, Hussein; Dittmann, Andreas (2016). "Oil in Syria between Terrorism and Dictatorship". Social Sciences. 5 (2): 20. doi:10.3390/socsci5020020.
- ^ Ebla home page
- ^ >Ebla gas plant project, surface facilities
- ^ The destruction of the energy sector in Syria during the war 2011-2020, Harmoon Center for Contemporary Studies
- ^ "Al-Sha'er gas field in Homs restarts production". Syrian Arab News Agency. 14 September 2017. Retrieved 7 October 2017. (archived)