By Delia Morris & Athanasios Pitatzis With commodity prices in freefall, there would seem to be very few bright spots around the world for the sanctioning of upstream oil and gas projects over the next one to two-year period. In terms of activity levels, however, the Eastern Mediterranean region is…
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By Athanasios Pitatzis During Global Oil&Gas Black Sea & Mediterranean Exhibition and Conference on Athens-Greece at 23/09/2015, i gave a presentation on workshop provided by Society of Petroleum Engineers Kavala Section with the title: “Global LNG Dynamics and South – East Mediterranean Hydrocarbons Potential”. You can observe the presentation below:
By Athanasios Pitatzis In today’s article we will cover the history of the exploration wells in Norway since 1966 until now in comparison with Cyprus oil and gas discoveries until the given date. According to the publish data from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) Norway has drilled 1675 exploration wells until…
By Athanasios Pitatzis The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has now met with the President of Cyprus Nikos Anastasiades and the President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Cyprus in a meeting that took place on the 29th of April 2015. The main topics on the table were those of…
By Christis Enotiades and Athanasios Pitatzis The recent discoveries of large hydrocarbon reserves in the Levant basin in Eastern Mediterranean, have transformed the region to a potential net exporter of natural gas. The successive discoveries of Tamar in 2009 and of Leviathan in 2010 in Israel’s EEZ totaling almost 28tcf…
By Athanasios Pitatzis In today’s article we will introduce a new business strategy for TAP Pipeline. Secondly we will propose the construction of a new pipeline project the Trans Balkan Pipeline. Also we will investigate the possibilities of Turkmenistan and Iran to sell natural as to EU through TANAP. New…
By Athanasios Pitatzis In today’s article we will try to introduce a new military plan for the safety of the whole Mediterranean which will involve the whole EU, Greek and Cyprus as EU state members, Israel, Lebanon and of course Egypt. Libya ISIS Rebels threats Maritime Security on Central Mediterranean According…