Lebanon Set to Join East Mediterranean Race for Oil and Gas - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-04/lebanon-set-to-join-race-in-exploration-for-offshore-oil-and-gas
Lebanese law requires that money from the sale of oil and natural gas be deposited into a national sovereign wealth fund. A law to establish such a fund is currently being studied, Khalil said.
#Syriza Sells Out Former Ally, #Palestine, to Form Ties with #Israel, and Indirectly, Germany
▻http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/02/syriza-sells-out-former-ally-palestine-to-form-ties-with-israel-and
It’s a mystery why Syriza remains a darling of the European left when it keeps selling out its voters and its supposed allies. Now in reality, Greece is a vassal state, yet commentators in Europe for the most part refuse to acknowledge that Syriza running a modern day Vichy government, legitimating an economic occupation.
The latest example of Syriza’s opportunism comes via Reuters (hat tip Mark Ames). Greece, Cyprus, and Israel just formed a joint deal. A close reading of a Reuters report shows the pact does more for Israel than for anyone else:
Israel, Cyprus and Greece have agreed to deepen their energy, security and tourism ties in the Eastern Mediterranean, a deal that may have implications for Israel’s testy relationship with the European Union, too.
The agreement, signed in Nicosia last week by a beaming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Greek premier Alexis Tsipras and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, focused on energy and the exploitation of natural gas deposits off Israel and Cyprus.
The Leviathan and Aphrodite fields are unlikely to start exporting before 2019 or 2020. Nevertheless, the ambition is to transport gas by pipeline, possibly via Turkey, or in liquefied form by ship to Europe, plugging the East Mediterranean into Europe’s grid and providing an alternative to Russia – which has far worse relations with the EU due to the Ukraine crisis.
Russia sends missile cruiser to Mediterranean : Interfax | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/04/us-syria-crisis-russia-ship-idUSBRE9830F820130904?feedType=RSS
(Reuters) - Russia is sending a missile cruiser to the east Mediterranean to take over the navy’s operations in the region, Interfax quoted a military source as saying on Wednesday, as the United States prepares for a possible military strike in Syria.
The ship was expected to reach the east Mediterranean, where it will join other ships in Russia’s regional naval unit, in approximately ten days, said the unnamed source.
Syrie : trois navires de guerre russes se dirigent vers la Méditerranée orientale
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2013/09/05/syrie-trois-navires-de-guerre-russes-se-dirigent-vers-la-mediterranee-orient
Trois navires de guerre russes ont franchi, jeudi 5 septembre, le détroit turc du Bosphore pour se rendre en Méditerranée orientale, près des côtes syriennes. Le navire de guerre électronique SSV-201 Priazovié a emprunté le détroit en compagnie des grands navires de débarquement Minsk et Novotcherkassk.
East Mediterranean Gas – what kind of a game-changer ? | Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
►http://www.oxfordenergy.org/2012/12/east-mediterranean-gas-what-kind-of-a-game-changer
The discovery of sizable gas resources in the Levant Basin, a geological structure that straddles the territorial waters of Cyprus, Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, and Syria, has the potential to be game-changing for the East Mediterranean region. Hitherto net energy importers, these countries are now faced with the prospect of long-term energy self-sufficiency and the development of a new revenue stream for the economy. With the resource potential of the Levant Basin believed to be much higher than the 35 Tcf of gas discovered recently, the East Mediterranean is now the focus of much interest on the part of major upstream investors. However, in the short to medium term, the development and monetisation of these resources present stakeholders with a set of challenges originating in the region’s complex political make-up, as well as in the fact that their energy and gas utilisation policies are still work in progress, over and above the technical difficulties relating to the development of these resources. This paper examines the challenges and opportunities that have been given rise to by these discoveries, arguing that to 2020 East Mediterranean gas is more likely to be a game-changer for local energy systems than for regional and international gas markets.
Très intéressante étude, bien documentée, à la fois sur le plan économique et géopolitique. Plusieurs cartes intéressantes.
Pour résumer : ils ont trouvé (ou espèrent trouver) du gaz, mais comme ils sont dans l’état incapables de se l’échanger entre eux et que l’exportation via la Turquie ou via la Grèce ou via la liquéfaction vers des méthaniers est très compliquée, politiquement techniquement et financièrement, ils ne sont pas rendus...
#Israël #Liban #Jordanie #Syrie #Chypre #Grèce #Turquie #gaz_naturel #gazoduc #Egypte
Voir aussi : La guerre de l’énergie Israël / Palestine : ►http://rumor.hypotheses.org/2552