Specialised teams have begun clearing mines surrounding a pipeline at the Conoco gas field in Deir ez-Zor province in eastern Syria, a source in the Syrian Petroleum Company has told The New Arab .
The mine clearing is part of preliminary measures to return the field to service and rehabilitate damaged oil infrastructure by the Syrian Petroleum Company.Â
The demining operations are will be followed by field maintenance to repair damage.
The source said the demining step aims to ensure the safety of maintenance workers from war remnants and mines.
They also added that the company is also preparing a missing five-kilometre section as part of efforts to ready the pipeline.
Safwan Sheikh Ahmad, the director of communications at the Syrian Petroleum Company told The New Arab that the Conoco gas field is “completely destroyed and out of service”.
He added that the Jafra field remains one of the important fields, with an expected daily production of about 3,000 barrels.
He said Syrian fields produced about 350,000 barrels per day in 2013, while output from fields recovered east of the Euphrates is currently estimated at about 110,000 barrels per day.
US forces left the Conoco field base in April 2025. The field is located north of the Euphrates River in an area locally known as al-Jazira, about 35 kilometres northeast of the city of Deir ez-Zor.
The field hosts Syria’s largest gas processing plant, which previously supplied several power stations, including the Jandar plant in Homs, one of the country’s largest.Â
Before the outbreak of the Syrian conflict in 2011, this strategic field produced about 10 million cubic metres of natural gas per day.
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