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

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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA616813

Entities

People

  • Laura El-katiri
  • Mohammed El-katiri

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Boundaries
  • Civil War
  • Energy Security
  • Governments
  • International Relations
  • Middle East
  • National Security
  • Nato
  • Natural Gas
  • Natural Resources
  • Negotiations
  • Political Movements
  • Security
  • Terrorists
  • United States
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Archaeological Resource Survey
  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • International Relations and Conflict Resolution