POLITICAL WRANGLING AND RED TAPE OBSTRUCTS LEBANESE OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION
January 1st, 2011
BY SAMI HALABI
BEFORE the county's 1975-90 civil war Lebanon was an oil transit nation, with pipelines running through its territory from Saudi Arabia, and export terminals on its shores. Today, the country cannot even produce the electricity it needs to power its cities and is completely dependent on imports of oil and gas for energy. But all of that may be about to change in the next decade. Lebanon took the first step to once again becoming an oil and gas player last August when its parliament unanimously passed its first law covering maritime exploitation ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.