A significant contribution to community welfare has been made by Tapline's Medical Department. Requiring more than 120 employees, or more than any other activity except oil operations, the department operates clinics at Beirut and Sidon and a hospital and clinic at each main pump station. By 1965, total annual clinic calls had increased to more than 300,000 and total hospital days to more than 11,000.

JORDAN, SYRIA, LEBANON RECEIVING OIL

Oil transported by Tapline figures importantly not only in markets outside of the Middle East but also in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. In addition to transit revenues and other fees resulting from Tapline operations, these countries are benefiting from direct

use of favorably priced oil. By special pipeline, Tapline supplies about 7,000 barrels of 'crude oil daily to the Jordan Petroleum Refinery Company, Ltd. The Mediterranean Refining Company (Medreco) located south of the Tapline terminal near Sidon, receives about 15,000 barrels of crude daily. And Syria receives 11,000 barrels daily for its refinery at Homs, delivered by the Iraq Petroleum Company on behalf of Tapline, under an arrangement whereby equivalent amounts are picked up by IPC at Tapline's Sidon terminal.

Lumping together the revenues to governments resulting from pipeline operations, salaries paid to employees, and company expenditures for local purchases and services, more than $30 million is channelled into the regional economy each year.