Bassam Tohme

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

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.

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.