December 2014 – June 2015 – December 2015 – June 2016. Every six months, with Swiss-like precision, Speaker Nabih Berri makes another attempt to reactivate the oil and gas file.
Berri invokes the threat posed by Israel to Lebanese sovereignty …
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Special Envoy and Coordinator for international Energy Affairs at the U.S. State Department Amos Hochstein visited Lebanon on May 26, 2016, less than a year after his last visit to Beirut, in July 2015.
The U.S. Special Envoy held …
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It’s been three years the nascent oil and gas sector in Lebanon was brought to a complete halt. The relative success of the pre-qualification round in 2013 brought the sector to center stage and contributed to the hype surrounding it. …
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On February 29, Skeyes, in partnership with Middle East Strategic Perspectives, launched a mobile app, LOG&Learn, dedicated to providing accurate information about Lebanon’s nascent oil and gas sector, by answering user questions and fact-checking public statements about Lebanon’s potential …
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In its latest edition of the East Med Oil & Gas Report (issued on February 10, 2016), MESP provides insights and operational analysis on the following subjects:
Turkey omnipresent in the Cyprus-Greece-Israel trilateral summit
Further drilling in Cyprus faces challenges…
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On February 1, 2016, the World Health Organization’s public health emergency committee declared the spread of the emerging infectious disease caused by the Zika virus a public health emergency of international concern.
Since the confirmation by the Pan American …
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The following is part of a presentation given at the British Parliament by MESP co-founder Mona Sukkarieh, on January 21st, 2016.
It’s been a while the Eastern Mediterranean has not received the attention it’s been receiving in the …
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This article was written for Executive Magazine.
After a year riddled with difficult market conditions, dry holes, regulatory hurdles, the oil and gas sector in Eastern Mediterranean countries finally have good reasons to look forward to 2016.
In Egypt…
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This article was published in the October 2015 edition of Executive Magazine.
Lebanon was most likely a marginal topic on the sideline of nuclear discussions in Vienna, but the nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 group is expected …
Iran, a potential investor in Lebanon’s energy sector? Read More »
The security of energy infrastructure is increasingly cited as a source of concern for policymakers in the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean.
This is particularly true for Egypt, where we are seeing a dramatic shift in militants’ modus operandi (who, …
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Lebanon ranked 136th in the 2014 Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index. A general look at the country’s governance patterns would justify a certain suspicion on how public affairs are managed in Lebanon. Over the past few years, not enough was …
Lebanon: too much talk about transparency, few raised eyebrows Read More »
Illicit trafficking is a global threat. It concerns a wide range of merchandises including weapons, drugs, pharmaceutical products, software, luxury products, tobacco, in addition to human trafficking. Benefits from illicit products could be partially or, in certain cases, entirely used …
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