LibGuides: Oil and Gas in Lebanon: Overview

Posters & Presentations

Lebanon First Offshore Licensing Round
Experts' presentation. Ministry of Energy and Water,
22nd February 2012
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1. Huw Edwards – ERCL Advisor, Ministry of Energy and Water, Republic of Lebanon (Speaker)
2. Fadi Nader – Advisor, Ministry of Energy and Water, Republic of Lebanon
3. Wissam Chbat – Advisor, Ministry of Energy and Water, Republic of Lebanon
Revision of the Jurassic and Cretaceous Oil-Bearing Formations in Lebanon
Poster by George Bellos. Geology Department - AUB 2012
Hydrocarbon Exploration Offshore Lebanon: Current Status and Way Forward
University of Cyprus, Nicosia, June 23, 2011

In the News

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Selected articles:

Energy - Like oil and water
By Sami Halabi
Executive, Jun 05, 2012
Energy-starved Lebanon and Israel scramble for gas fields
By Charles Glass
Article appears in The National on August 1, 2012.
Georges Pierre Sassine, membre du jury de Harvard pour le concours sur le conflit autour de la prospection pétrolière en Méditerranée
June 13 2012, L'Orient Le Jour
Implications of Natural Gas off the Lebanese Coast: The Good, the Bad - and the Corrupt
As-Safir: May 11, 2012
Lebanon can avoid the 'resource curse.'
Daily Star; March 6, 2012
Ministers trade blame over oil committee delay
Next Big Lebanon-Israel Flare-Up: Gas
Article appears in Time (World) on April 06, 2011.
Offshore ineptitude
Executive Magagine.
January 10, 2013
Oil and gas discoveries produce potential Israel-Lebanon flash points
By Nicholas Blanford
Article appears in Christian Science Monitor on November 1, 2010
Oil Law: Missing the tide
By Sami Halabi on February 05, 2011
Resolving Lebanon's maritime border disputes.
By Georges Pierre Sassine
An Arabic version of this article appeared in Annahar Newspaper on December 12, 2011
Rival Claims to Sea Territory Made by Israel and Lebanon
By Isabel Kershner
Article appears in the New York Times on July 10, 2011, Page A6.
اكتشاف الغاز سيغير مسار لبنان من بلد مديون الى بلد نفطي
الوكالة الوطنية للإعلام- لبنان
متى يُفرج القرار السياسي عن الثروة البترولية؟ الغاز في البحر اللبناني 80 الف مليار قدم مكعب

Research at AUB

Scholarly Articles

Petroleum prospects of Lebanon; reevaluation (Jan 1977)
Dr. Z. R. Beydoun*. AAPG Bulletin, January 1977, vol. 61, p. 43-64.
*Department of Geology. American University of Beirut.
Some Open Questions Relating to the Petroleum Prospects of Lebanon. (1981)
Dr. Z. R. Baydoun*. Journal of Petroleum Geology January 1981, vol 3, issue 3, p. 303-314.
*Department of Geology. American University of Beirut.

AUB Theses

The curse of natural resources : a vulnerability assessment for Lebanon
Boughanem, Lara Nabil
AUB Thesis, 2014
Can oil and gas development be a driver for peacebuilding?
Brown, Alexander Basil
AUB Thesis, 2016

Oil Prospects of Lebanon: Current and Historical

Lebanon 1st Licensing Round (July 2012)
Description and Letter of invitation for exploration companies. Ministry of Energy and Water, 2012
الصراع على النفط والغاز.. هل يكسب لبنان حقوله؟ (April 2012)
. عصام خليفة As-Safir, April 4, 2012
Petroleum Prospectivity of Lebanon (April 2011)
F. H. Nader. Journal of Petroleum Geology April 2011, vol. 34, issue 2, pages 135-156
The Levant Offshore Basin and its Petroleum Perspectives: Petroleum Prospects of Lebanon (February 2010)
Fadi Nader. European Region Newsletter, vol. 5, February 2010
The Eastern Mediterranean Mesozoic Basin: evolution and oil habitat (1991)
P. R. May AAPG Bulletin, 1991, v. 75, p. 1215-1232.
(قضية البترول في لبنان (1970
بيروت : المركز العربي للدراسات البترولية, 1970 نقولا سركيس
Oil prospects of Lebanon. (print) (1955)
Georges Renouard. AAPG Bulletin 1955, vol. 39, pages 2125-2169

East Mediterranean Oil and Gas Prospects

German Marshall Fund series on Eastern Mediterranean energy discoveries.
East Mediterranean Gas: Opportunities and Challenges (04, 2012)
By Walid Khadduri
Mediterranean Politics, March 2012, vol. 17, Issue 1, pages 111-117.
doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2012.655049
Israel's Energy Security: Regional Implications (2011)
Journal Essay by Gawdat Bahgat
Middle East Policy Council, Fall 2011.
New and Emerging Plays in the Eastern Mediterranean (02, 2011)
Advances in Carbonate Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
Israel’s Offshore Natural Gas Discoveries (01, 2011)
Congressional Research Service Report, January 31, 2011
Origin and nature of the rapid late Tertiary filling of the Levant Basin (2011)
Geology, 2011, v. 39 no. 4 p. 355-358.
doi: 10.1130/G31615.1
Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the Levant Basin Province, Eastern Mediterranean (04, 2010)
World Petroleum Resources Project
United States Geological Survey, March 2010.
Hydrocarbon Plays and Prospectivity of the Levantine Basin Offshore Lebanon and Syria from Modern Seismic Data (2007)
Article is published in GeoArabia, 2007, vol 12, issue 3, p 99.
The Journal is avaialble in print at Jafet Library

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