Syria has a 183-km Mediterranean coastline in the north, with no petroleum discovery made offshore. But this may contain gas in the Plio-Pleistocene horizon, judging by major gas discoveries made in the south-east of the Mediterranean - off Egypt, the Gaza Strip and Israel. There is a theory, yet to be proven, that the gas-rich Plio-Pleistocene and Paleozoic formations may extend from Egypt's 180-km deep offshore economic zone up to the Aegean Sea off Turkey and Greece including areas off Lebanon and Cyprus.

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