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Lebanon delays oil and gas tender again | Middle East Strategic Perspectives
▻http://www.mestrategicperspectives.com/2014/01/08/lebanon-delays-oil-and-gas-tender-again

It seems Bassil is running out of cards to push for holding the tender. Invoking potential Israeli threats (July 2013), drafting petitions (October 2013) and threatening to proceed with the tender even without the two decrees (Nov-Dec 2013, January 2014), all proved to be unsuccessful. The political class called his bluff. Ensuring a say or a share in the sector remains the single most important driving force behind local leaders’ position on the subject: those who are currently in a position to affect the sector are in favor of proceeding with the tender. Those who believe they may have more influence in a future government are pressuring for delaying the tender.

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FLASH : Lebanon : Lack of political will delays oil and gas tender | Middle East Strategic Perspectives
▻http://www.mestrategicperspectives.com/2013/10/05/flash-lebanon-lack-of-political-will-delays-oil-and-gas-ten
Le terme de l’appel d’offre pour le forage pétrolier et gazier des fonds sous-marins du Liban est repoussé jusqu’en janvier.

Press reports enumerated a number of reasons explaining the delay: 1) those who have been sidelined from the process, as a result of their non-participation in the last government, prefer to stall the process and relaunch it once they are in power to ensure a stake; 2) others see in the exploitation of offshore resources a possible energy independence. Energy dependence on the Gulf has so far provided Gulf monarchies a political influence in the country, and a political and financial backing for local factions depending on these monarchies; 3) many, among the political class, do not want to proceed with the tender as long as Gebran Bassil is heading the ministry.

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