After the completion of the second licensing round in Cyprus, the Turkish foreign ministry issued a warning to companies involved in oil and gas exploration in Cyprus. “those companies cooperating with Greek Cypriot Administration will not be allowed to
Four licenses have been announced yesterday (31/10) by the Cypriot government as part of the second licensing round for offshore gas exploration in blocks 2, 3, 9 and 11. Blocks 2 and 3 went to the Italian ENI and the …
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A statement released by Lebanese Energy minister Gebran Bassil’s office, published last evening (28/10) on his official twitter account and in today’s (29/10) edition of Annahar [both links in Arabic], referred, once again, to an equation the Minister has frequently …
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According to diplomatic sources quoted by the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar on 24/10, former Special Coordinator for Regional Affairs at the State Department Frederic Hoff, who had recently retired, was asked by the State Department to resume his mediation efforts to …
Curieusement, au moment où les relations sont au plus bas entre Paris et Damas et que le régime syrien accuse la France de “soutien au terrorisme”, au Liban, on n’a pas trouvé mieux dans le camp du 8 Mars et …
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Mona Sukkarieh.
Three thousand four hundred billion cubic meters of recoverable natural gas and 1.7 billion barrels of recoverable oil have brought attention to the Levant Basin and the countries surrounding it, a region mired in conflicts and whose strategic …
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Une conjonction de facteurs laisse supposer un déblocage en vue du projet de réhabilitation de la raffinerie de pétrole de Tripoli. Le quotidien al-Joumhouriya (19/10) place la relance de ce projet économique au profit de la capitale sunnite du nord-Liban, …
Fadi Assaf.
Le Premier ministre libanais Najib Mikati, homme d’affaires dont le florissant groupe M1 s’intéresse au gaz (M1 Energy) parmi ses nombreuses activités, s’intéresse, comme homme d’Etat surtout, aux richesses gazières offshore de son pays. Il dirige un gouvernement …
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In an interview with the Daily Star (12/10), the ambassador of Cyprus in Lebanon, Homer Mavrommatis, said that the delimitation of maritime borders between Lebanon and Cyprus will facilitate future cooperation in oil and gas exploration and would help attract …
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According to Assafir’s 06/10 edition, sources close to PM Najib Mikati denied having received the names of candidates to the Petroleum Administration which will oversee the licensing process expected to be launched by the end of 2012.
Asked about …
During a meeting with State Department’s Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs Carlos Pascual and Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman, Minister of Energy and Water, Gebran Bassil, confirmed that the “door was open” to American investments in …
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منى سكرية.
شرعت حكومة إقليم كردستان في تصدير النفط الخام نقلاً بالشاحنات إلى تركيا في الشهر تموز/يوليو 2012 في خطوةٍ أثارت غضب بغداد، التي تطالب باحتكار حقوق تصدير مصادر الطاقة. في شهر أيار/مايو 2012، أعلنت تركيا وحكومة إقليم كردستان …
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