Syria expects to award oil and gas exploration licenses to major international oil firms as it looks to tap its estimated huge reserves, the chief executive of the state-owned Syrian Petroleum Company told the Financial Times in remarks published on Wednesday. “There is a lot of land in the country that has not been touched yet. There are trillions of cubic metres of gas,” Youssef Qablawi, CEO of Syrian Petroleum Company, told the FT. Syria is tapping U.S. firms Chevron and ConocoPhillips and European majors TotalEnergies…