1. Syria Accelerates Its Upstream Ambitions

    ...banon unilaterally claimed its EEZ in a letter to the United Nations in 2011, but Syria – not a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) – rejected this in 2014. Last month, Lebanon’s cabinet finally approved its maritime border with Cyprus, 18 years after Beirut and Ni...

    Volume: 68
    Issue: 47
    Published at Fri, 21 Nov 2025
  2. Mauritania’s Banda Integrated Gas Project Progresses

    ...ergy needs. UK based Tullow took Banda in 2011 from Malaysia’s Petronas and announced commerciality a year later (MEES, 22 February 2013) before having to cut back on investments when prices began to drop in 2014. Development plans only recovered recently when Banda and the nearby 0.9tcf Tevet fi...

    Volume: 68
    Issue: 46
    Published at Fri, 14 Nov 2025
  3. US Blocks Gunvor-Lukoil Transaction

    ...nnady Timchenko exited in 2014 just ahead of being sanctioned by the US for links to Putin (MEES, 25 April 2014). Gunvor says the Treasury Department statement “is fundamentally misinformed and false,” adding that it “has for more than a decade actively distanced itself from Russia, stopped trading in...

    Volume: 68
    Issue: 45
    Published at Fri, 07 Nov 2025