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Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri announced Thursday (October 1) that Lebanon and Israel will hold United Nations-mediated talks to end a long-running border dispute between the two countries, which are still officially at war.
Berri said during a press conference that the agreement on a framework for talks with Israel to resolve the border dispute is ongoing. Her announcement comes after the United States imposed sanctions on her aide and her right-hand man for corruption and financial empowerment of Hezbollah, the Iran-backed group that Washington considers a terrorist organization.
The speaker of the Lebanese parliament added that he had asked French President Emmanuel Macron to pressure Total Energy not to delay Gas exploration in the marine area that runs along the disputed maritime border area.
Berri did not specify a date for the negotiations, but said the United States would act as a mediator during the talks scheduled to be held in the southern Lebanese border city of Naqoura.
Hh / and b. (Reuters, AP)
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The most important gas pipelines in the eastern Mediterranean region
1- Turkish Qatari gas pipeline
Qatar has the third largest gas reserve in the world (about 14 percent of the world reserve), and Qatar intends to transport gas to Turkey via a gas pipeline that passes through Saudi Arabia and Syria and from there to Turkey. , which will distribute it to Europe.
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The most important gas pipelines in the eastern Mediterranean region
1- Turkish Qatari gas pipeline
The importance of this gas pipeline is due to the fact that Russia will not become the only source of gas for Europe. Many experts and analysts link the recent Gulf crisis with Qatar to greed for its enormous gas wealth.
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The most important gas pipelines in the eastern Mediterranean region
2 – Eastern Mediterranean Gas Pipeline
It was initially established to transport Egyptian natural gas from El-Arish in Egypt to Ashkelon in Israel within Egyptian and then Israeli territorial waters in the Mediterranean, with a length of 100 km. And Israel was receiving Egyptian gas at preferential prices. The line was subjected to dozens of sabotage operations, which cost Egypt enormous sums.
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The most important gas pipelines in the eastern Mediterranean region
2- Eastern Mediterranean Gas Pipeline
But Israeli companies Delek Drilling, Noble Energy (Texas) and Egyptian East Gas announced that they had reached an agreement to buy a 39 percent stake in Eastern Mediterranean Gas Company for $ 518 million, an agreement that would allow Israel to supply 64 thousand million cubic meters of gas to Egypt over a period of ten. Years of the Israeli offshore fields of Tamar and Leviathan under the export agreement previously signed between the two countries.
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The most important gas pipelines in the eastern Mediterranean region
3- The Israeli-European pipeline
European governments and the government of Israel announced their support for the construction of a gas pipeline project in the Mediterranean to transport natural gas from Israel to Europe and set a date for its completion in 2025. The pipeline, which runs for 200 km, aims to connect gas fields off the coasts of Israel and Cyprus with Greece and perhaps Italy at a cost of up to six Billion euros ($ 6.4 billion).
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The most important gas pipelines in the eastern Mediterranean region
4 – Egyptian-Cypriot Gas Pipeline
Cyprus and Egypt signed an agreement that paves the way for the construction of the first underwater gas pipeline in the Mediterranean to transport natural gas from Cyprus to the Egyptian territories to be liquefied in the Egyptian shipyards as a prelude to its re-export to Europe. Under the agreement, gas will be transported from the Cypriot “Aphrodite” field to Egypt, opening the door to attract billions of dollars in infrastructure investment.
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The most important gas pipelines in the eastern Mediterranean region
5 – Jordanian – Israeli Gas Pipeline
The Jordan National Electricity Company and the Ministry of Energy signed an agreement with Israel and the Noble Energy Company to require Amman to import Israeli gas extracted from the Leviathan field. This agreement is suspended to this day due to widespread rejection by Jordanian unions, parties and initiatives, be it for political or environmental reasons. The pipeline will be approximately 64 kilometers long and the receipt of the first batches of Israeli gas will begin at the end of 2019 for a period of 15 years.
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The most important gas pipelines in the eastern Mediterranean region
Infographic of natural gas lines in the region
The infographic shows the most important natural gas pipelines in the eastern Mediterranean, some of them already in operation and others under construction. With the growing number of discoveries of natural gas fields in the region, their importance and impact on political and economic relations between countries has increased.
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