SPC operated fields around Al-Sweidiyeh in the Al-Hasakah Governorate, including Al-Houla, Shadada, Jbeissa, Sweidiya and Rumailan.

[4] On 18 August 2011, SPC was put into the United States sanctions list due to the Syrian civil war.

[5] China’s state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has large stakes in one of Syria's biggest oil companies the Al-Furat Petroleum Company, as well as in a number of Syrian oil fields.

[6] India has made two significant investments in Syria in the oil sector in the pre-conflict days.

Second, investments by India's ONGC and China's CNPC to jointly acquire the 37% stake of PetroCanada in the Syrian Al Furat Petroleum Company.