Lebanon: LNG import tender & FSRU tender confirm business as usual at the MOEW
Thirteen companies responded to the Ministry of Energy and Water’s tender, launched in December 2013, to import liquefied natural gas. The deadline for placing bids, …
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Lebanon – Local politics:
The excitement surrounding cabinet formation has cooled down in the past few days. Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam is now confronted to the daunting task of distributing ministerial portfolios, having committed, from the beginning, to the principle …
Lebanon: The Oil & Gas Week, January 27, 2014 Read More »
9 – 10 September 2014
Paphos, Cyprus
There is approximately 60 billion barrels of offshore hydrocarbons, most of which remain unexplored or under-explored in the East Mediterranean region. This is equivalent to Europe’s energy needs for the next 30 years, …
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Lebanon – First licensing round:
Caretaker Energy Minister Gebran Bassil postponed the tender for the “third and last time” on January 8, due to the absence of two important decrees, one defining offshore blocks and their coordinates and another one …
Lebanon: The Oil & Gas Week, January 13, 2014 Read More »
The Ministry of Energy and Water organized a press conference on January 8 to discuss the first licensing round for offshore oil and gas exploration and other related developments. Caretaker Energy Minister Gebran Bassil delayed the tender for the third …
Lebanon delays oil and gas tender again Read More »
The Ministry of Energy and Water will hold a press conference on January 8, 2014, at 12 p.m., three days ahead of the January 10 deadline for postponing the tender, to discuss the first licensing round for offshore oil and …
Lebanon to proceed with oil and gas tender? Read More »
نشر هذا المقال في جريدة النهار في 9 كانون الثاني 2014.
جاءت الاكتشافات الجديدة للغاز في شرق البحر المتوسّط إبّان تزايد الطلب العالميّ على الغاز. كما يُتوقّع أن يرتفع بنسبة 1.6 في المئة سنويًّا، متجاوزًا الطلب على الفحم كثاني …
الثروة الغازيّة في لبنان: عامل الوقت Read More »
New gas discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean come at a time when global gas demand is increasing. Demand for natural gas is expected to grow by 1.6% a year and overtake coal as the second most important fuel in the …
Lebanon’s gas wealth: the time factor Read More »
Middle East Strategic Perspectives has been providing a regular coverage of Lebanon’s emerging oil and gas sector.
In 2013, the sector has effectively started to take shape. The formation of the Petroleum Administration in November 2012 completed the institutional framework …
Lebanon’s oil and gas sector: 2013 in review Read More »
According to Nechirvan Barzani, Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Iraqi Kurdistan will start exporting oil to Turkey via pipeline “before Christmas”. The move is expected to have major geopolitical implications, with possible threats to Iraq’s cohesion. We …
Iraqi Kurdistan: Oil Export to Turkey despite Baghdad’s Objection? Read More »
Lebanon/Israel – Maritime border dispute:
The determination to exploit offshore resources is pushing some officials to show certain flexibility and creativity by envisaging new options to contain, rather than enflame, the tension resulting from the maritime border dispute between Lebanon …
Lebanon: The Oil & Gas Week, December 09, 2013 Read More »
The role of the media in monitoring the government’s work and performance is inestimable. This also applies to the oil and gas sector. The vibrant Lebanese media, hesitant at first, is becoming more and more daring in its coverage of …
Lebanon: Encouraging Public Debate on Oil & Gas Read More »