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. |
|
|
|
|
|
|