Bassam Tohme Explained

Honorific-Prefix:HE
Bassam Tohme
بسام طعمة
Office:Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources
Term Start:30 August 2020
Term End:29 March 2023
President:Bashar al-Assad
Predecessor:Ali Suleiman Ghanem
Primeminister:Hussein Arnous
Successor:Firas Hassan Kaddour
Birth Place:Safita, Tartous Governorate, Syria
Nationality:Syrian
Children:3
Residence:Damascus
Alma Mater:Al-Baath University
Occupation:Bachelor of Engineering
Profession:Politician, Oil engineer

Bassam Tohme (Arabic: بسام طعمة; born 1969) is a former Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources of Syria.[1]

Life and education

He was born in Safita in 1969. He has got a degree in petroleum engineering from al-Ba’ath University in 1993. He got married with three children. [2]

Career

He started work in the Syrian Petroleum Company, Al-Gebsa Fields Directorate in 1993 and he was an engineer in the Central region gas project from 1993 to 1995.

Head of the Gas Collection and Processing Department of the Syrian Gas Company from 2003 to 2005.

He was appointed as Director of Service Contracts of the General Petroleum Corporation from 18 November 2018.[3]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2020-08-31. من هو وزير النفط والثروة المعدنية الجديد بسام طعمة ؟ تلفزيون الخبر ::اخبار سوريا::. 2021-03-20. alkhabar-sy.com. 2020-08-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20200831150449/https://alkhabar-sy.com/%D9%85%D9%86-%D9%87%D9%88-%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D9%81%D8%B7-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%AF/. bot: unknown.
  2. Web site: 2020-08-31. Prime Minister’s Office. 2021-07-05. SANA.
  3. Web site: 2020-08-31. Prime Minister’s Office. 2021-07-05. SANA.