Accession Number:

ADA616813

Title:

Regionalizing East Mediterranean Gas: Energy Security, Stability, and the U.S. Role

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

ARMY WAR COLLEGE CARLISLE BARRACKS PA STRATEGIC STUDIES INSTITUTE

Personal Author(s):

• El-Katiri, Laura
• El-Katiri, Mohammed

Report Date:

2014-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

73.0

Abstract:

The East Mediterranean has been witnessing an unparalleled natural resource boom since the late-2000s, when Israel, followed by Cyprus, made its first significant offshore hydrocarbon discoveries in many years. These discoveries have since proven to be substantially larger than any other resources previously explored in the East Mediterranean Sea. A 2010 U.S. Geological Survey suggests the Levant basin the area including Cyprus and Israel s offshore zones, and the offshore and some onshore territories of Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinian Territories could hold as many as 1.7 billion barrels of oil and up to 122 trillion cubic feet tcf of natural gas, leaving as much as two thirds of the region s potential resource base still undiscovered.

Descriptors:

• *EAST(DIRECTION)
• *HYDROCARBONS
• *MEDITERRANEAN SEA
• *NATURAL RESOURCES
• CYPRUS
• GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS
• NATURAL GAS
• OFFSHORE
• OILS
• SECURITY

Subject Categories:

• Economics and Cost Analysis
• Organic Chemistry

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE