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Lebanese politicians are the least trustworthy in the world, or so its people think — in last month’s World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report the country scored 148th out of…

A “minor delay” is how he put it. In the weeks before the September 2 deadline for the Cabinet to meet and ensure the bidding process over the rights to…

September was a silent month. For days on end the Lebanese sat glued to their televisions waiting for the seemingly inevitable American strike against Syria. Daily life hardly seemed relevant…

Lebanon’s energy minister has provided the clearest hint yet that he expects a delay to the bidding process for the country’s offshore oil and gas, ahead of a Monday deadline.…

In recent years there have been significant strides made in Lebanon’s incipient oil and gas sector. This has in no small part been down Gebran Bassil, the caretaker minister of…

Economics and Policy MP Mohammed Qabbani, the head of Lebanon's parliamentary committee on energy, has accused caretaker energy minister Gebran Bassil over the stoppage of the Fatmagül electricity barge. More…

Those attending the official launch of Lebanon’s first licensing round for offshore oil and gas exploration on Tuesday may have been forgiven for thinking they had walked into a Gebran…

To his admirers he is intelligent, principled and steadfast. To his adversaries he is uncompromising, avaricious and self-indulgent. All may be partly true of Minister of Energy and Water Gebran…

Lebanon's Petroleum Administration (PA) and the Ministry of Energy and Water (MoEW) have announced the names of 46 companies who have successfully pre-qualified to enter the first licensing round for…

Lebanon's oil and gas sector has the potential to transform the country's economy. Experts estimate the gas in Lebanon's waters may be worth more than $75 billion, nearly double the country's…