Oil and gas

The emerging oil and gas industry in Lebanon may have hit a few speed bumps recently, but that hasn’t stopped the country’s universities from starting to think about the industry’s …

Gebran Bassil became Lebanon’s minister of energy and water in 2011. Since then, the country has made huge strides toward extracting its offshore oil and gas, but last month those …

One impact a serious delay to Lebanon’s oil and gas bids may have is to exacerbate a trend of the country falling behind its regional neighbors. In the early stages, …

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 …

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 …

Lebanon’s progress to cultivate wealth from its offshore oil and gas resources has left us with more questions than answers. While the country will not extract any resources for at …

Lebanon could be on the way to join the club of other Middle Eastern oil and gas producers, albeit on a smaller scale. Whether this ambition can be realized will …

The oft-touted promise of great gas wealth under the sea floor off Lebanon’s coast has recently compelled the nation’s eyes toward the western horizon. There is a slowly growing sense …

It is one of those economic oddities that Saudi Arabia, regularly the world’s top oil producer, does not set the price for the oil it sells. While potentially wielding great …