TABLE 2
JORDAN, LEBANON, AND SYRIA:  STRUCTURE OF THE MINERAL INDUSTRIES IN 2003
(Thousand  metric tons unless otherwise specified)
Country and commodity			Major operating companies	Location of main facilities	Annual capacity
JORDAN
Bromine			Jordan Bromine Company (Arab Potash Company Ltd., 50%,	al-Safi	50.
			and Kemira Danmark A/S, 50%)
Cement			Jordan Cement Factories Co. Ltd. (LaFarge Group, 44%;	Fuhia and Rashadia	4,100.
			Jordan Investment Corp., 14.3%; Social Security Corp., 9%)
Do.			Arab Company for White Cement Industry	Amman	130.
Magnesia			Jordan Magnesia Company (Arab Potash Company Ltd., 55.8%)	al-Safi	60.
Natural gas	million cubic meters		National Petroleum Company (Government, 100%)	Risha	460.
Petroleum:
Crude	thousand 42-gallon		National Petroleum Company	Hamza	NA.
	barrels
Refined	do.		Jordan Petroleum Refinery Company	Zarqa	33,000.
Phosphate:
Phosphate rock			Jordan Phosphate Mines Company (Jordan Investment Corp.,	al-Hasa	4,000.
			41.5%; Social Security Corp., 27.8%; Kuwait Investment Corp.,
			15.9%)
Do.			do.	Shidiya	3,264.
Do.			do.	al-Abiad	3,000.
Phosphatic fertilizers			Jordan Fertilizer Industry Company (Government, 26%, and	Aqaba	600 DAP1
			Jordan Phosphate Mines Company, 25%)
Do.			Nippon Jordan Fertilizer Company (Arab Potash Company	Shiyada	100 DAP;1
			Ltd., 20%, and Jordan Phosphate Mines Company, 20%)		200 other.
Do.			Kemira Arab Potash Company (Arab Potash Company Ltd.,	Aqaba	75.
			50%, and Kemira Danmark A/S, 50%)
Phosphoric acid2			Jordan Fertilizer Industry Company	do.	750.
Do.2			Indo-Jordan Chemicals Company (Southern Petrochemical	Shiyada	224.
			Industries Corp., 52.2%; Jordan Phosphate Mines Company
			34.8%; Arab Investment Co., 13%)
Potash			Arab Potash Company Ltd. (Government of Jordan, 52.9%;	al-Safi	1,800.
			Arab Mining Co., 20.7%; Islamic Development Bank, 5.2%)
Potassium nitrate			Kemira Arab Potash Company	Aqaba	150.
Salt			Jordan Safi Salt Company (subsidiary of Arab Potash	al-Safi	1,232.
			Company Ltd.)
Do.			al-Azraq	Azraq	NA.
Steel:
Crude			Jordan Steel plc	Amman	250.
Semlmanufactured			do.	do.	250.
Do.			National Steel Industry Co.	Awajan	100.
Do.			Other steel producers	NA.	506.
Sulfuric acid			Jordan Fertilizer Industry Company	Aqaba	1,640.
Do.			Indo-Jordan Chemicals Company	Shiyada	660.
LEBANON
Cement			Holcim (Liban) SAL (Holcim Ltd., 55.8%)	Chekka	1,800.
Do.			Ciementerie Nationale SAL	do.	1,650.
Do.			Ciment de Sibline	Sibline	1,200.
Phosphate fertilizers			Lebanon Chemicals Company SAL	Selaata	NA.
Phosphoric acid			do.	do.	NA.
Steel			Consolidated Steel Lebanon SAL	Amchit	300.
Sulfuric acid			Lebanon Chemicals Company SAL	Selaata	NA.
SYRIA
Cement			Tartous Company for Cement & Building Materials3	Tartous	1,802.
Do.			al-Chaba Cement & Building Materials3	Aleppo	923.
Do.			Arabian Cement Co. for Cement3	do.	898.
Do.			Adra Co. for Cement and Building3	Adra	845.
Do.			Syrian Co. for Manufacturing Cement3	Hama	432.
Do.			National Co. for Manufacturing of Cement3	Dummar	190.
Do.			Rastan Co. for Cement and Building Materials3	Rastan	131.
Do.			Military Housing Cement Group (Government, 100%)	Musselemieh	NA.
See footnotes at end of table.
TABLE 2--Continued
JORDAN, LEBANON, AND SYRIA:  STRUCTURE OF THE MINERAL INDUSTRIES IN 2003
(Thousand  metric tons unless otherwise specified)
Country and commodity			Major operating companies	Location of main facilities	Annual capacity
Natural gas	million cubic meters		ConocoPhillips Company	Processing plant at Deir ez-Zor	4,750.
Do.	do.		al-Furat Petroleum Company (Syrian Petroleum Company, 50%;	Processing plant at Omar	2,400.
			Deminex GmbH, 18.8%; Pecten Syria Petroleum, 15.6%;
			Royal Dutch/Shell, 15.6%)
Do.	do.		Syrian Petroleum Company (Government, 100%)	Processing plant at Palmyra	2,200.
Do.	do.		do.	Processing plant at Jebissa	1,060.
Do.	do.		do.	Processing plant at Suwaidiyah	240.
Nitrogen:
Ammonia and urea4			General Fertilizers Company (subsidiary of General	Homs	256 ammonia;
			Organization for Chemical Industries)		137 urea.
Fertilizers			do.	do.	109.
Petroleum:
Crude	thousand 42-gallon		al-Furat Petroleum Company	al-Thayyem	20,000.
	barrels
Do.	do.		do.	al-Izba	18,300.
Do.	do.		do.	Omar/Omar North	14,600.
Do.	do.		do.	Maleh/Azraq	11,000.
Do.	do.		do.	Sijan	11,000.
Do.	do.		do.	Jarnof/Saban	9,100.
Do.	do.		do.	al-Ward	7,300.
Do.	do.		do.	Tanak	6,600.
Do.	do.		Syrian Petroleum Company	Suwaidiyah, Jebissa, and	45,600.
				Karatchok
Do.	do.		Deir-ez Zor Petroleum Company (Syrian Petroleum Company,	Qahar	10,200.
			50%, and Total S.A., 50%)
Do.	do.		do.	Jafra	4,700.
Do.	do.		do.	al-Mazraa and Attala North	3,700.
Do.	do.		al-Khabur Petroleum Co. (Syrian Petroleum Company, 50%)	Kishma	5,800.
Refined:	do.		Banias Refinery Company (Government, 100%)	Banias	49,300.
Do.	do.		Homs Refinery Company (Government, 100%)	Homs	39,100.
Phosphate:
Phosphate rock			General Company for Phosphate and Mines (Government, 100%)	Eastern A	1,150.
Do.			do.	Kneifis	800.
Do.			do.	Eastern B	700.
Phosphatic fertilizers			General Fertilizers Company	Homs	450 TSP;5
					207 P2O5.
Phosphoric acid			do.	do.	NA.
Salt			General Company for Phosphate and Mines	Deir al-Zour	72.
Steel:
Billet			General Company for Iron and Steel Products (Government, 100%)	Hama	60.
Rolled			Merri Family	Tartous	300.
Do.			Arab Steel Co.	Lattakia	250.
Do.			Joud International	do.	150.
Do.			General Company for Iron and Steel Products	Hama	78.
Sulfur	metric tons		Homs Refinery Co.	Homs	14,600.
Do.	do.		do.	Processing plant at Suwaidiyah	7,410.
Do.	do.		Syrian Petroleum Company	Processing plant at Jebissa	7,300.
Sulfuric acid			General Fertilizers Company	Homs	560.
NA  Not available.
1Diammonium phosphate.
2Expressed in phosphorus pentoxide (P2O5) equivalent.
3Subsidiary of General Organization for Cement and Building Materials, which is 100% Government owned.
4Expressed in nitrogen equivalent.
5Triple superphosphate.