The Shaer gas field (, Al-Shaer gas field), also Sha'er, Shair, or Sha'ir gas field is a gas field in Syria,Context: The Strategic Logic of Russian PMSC Operations in Syria. Syrian-Russian Energy Cooperation & Exploitation of the Hayan Gas Block, June 5, 2020, 150km northwest of Palmyra, Homs Governorate. Its prime investor was Petro-Canada and it supplies gas to the Ebla gas plant.The destruction of the energy sector in Syria during the war 2011-2020, Harmoon Center for Contemporary Studies 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. (archived)
See also
Sha'ir or shaer, a kind of pre-Islamic Arab poet believed to have magical powers. Al Shaer Tel Shair
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