Souedieh Field

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The Souedieh field is one of Syria's oldest fields. Sometimes transliterated as "Suwaydiyah" or other versions) was discovered by a West German firm in 1959. It lay around 15 kilometres south of the first oil field discovered in Syria, the Karatchuk field. The field produces Souedieh crude (or Syrian heavy grade).

On discovery the field initially produced 20,000 barrels per day (bpd). However as of 2010 the field was producing 100,000 bpd.

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