Gulfsands Petroleum Plc is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company, incorporated in the United Kingdom, whose shares are traded on the Alternative Investment Market ("AIM") of the London Stock Exchange (symbol: GPX). The Group's major focus is on the Middle East, where it has oil exploration and development projects in the Syrian Arab Republic and upstream and midstream oil and gas business development activities in Iraq. Gulfsands also produces oil and gas from a portfolio of properties in the USA, offshore Gulf of Mexico.

Gulfsands' vision is to become one of the pre-eminent independent exploration and production companies in the Middle East and to be viewed as a preferred operator and partner.