{"id":2407,"date":"2017-07-18T18:56:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T18:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2407"},"modified":"2017-07-18T18:56:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T18:56:02","slug":"all-eyes-on-turkey-as-total-eni-vessel-readies-to-drill-offshore-cyprus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/07\/18\/all-eyes-on-turkey-as-total-eni-vessel-readies-to-drill-offshore-cyprus\/","title":{"rendered":"ALL EYES ON TURKEY AS TOTAL-ENI VESSEL READIES TO DRILL OFFSHORE CYPRUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/westcapella.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2408\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/westcapella-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/westcapella-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/westcapella-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/westcapella-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/westcapella-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/westcapella-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/westcapella-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/westcapella.jpg 1417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced New Europe<\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neweurope.eu\/author\/kostis-geropoulos\/\">Kostis Geropoulos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the West Capella drilling vessel, contracted by France\u2019s Total in association with Italy\u2019s ENI, is about to start drilling at Block 11 off Cyprus\u2019 Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) only a few days after UN-sponsored reunification talks collapsed in Crans-Montana, there are concerns that Turkey may cause tensions in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCyprus does not have the means and cannot react physically to any belligerent actions by Turkey,\u201d Cyprus Natural Hydrocarbons Company CEO <strong>Charles Ellinas<\/strong> told New Europe on July 11, adding that Nicosia can only complain to the United Nations and the European Union and request intervention by the international community. \u201cBut I do not believe any actions by Turkey will stop drilling unless such actions affect the safety of staff involved in drilling activities. This is Total\u2019s position,\u201d Ellinas said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : https:\/\/www.neweurope.eu\/article\/eyes-turkey-total-eni-vessel-readied-drill-offshore-cyprus\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced New Europe By\u00a0 Kostis Geropoulos As the West Capella drilling vessel, contracted by France\u2019s Total in association with Italy\u2019s ENI, is about to start drilling at Block 11 off Cyprus\u2019 Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) only a few days after UN-sponsored reunification talks collapsed in Crans-Montana, there are concerns that Turkey may cause tensions in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/07\/18\/all-eyes-on-turkey-as-total-eni-vessel-readies-to-drill-offshore-cyprus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ALL EYES ON TURKEY AS TOTAL-ENI VESSEL READIES TO DRILL OFFSHORE CYPRUS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1603,1604],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-exclusive-economic-zone-eez","tag-west-capella","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions\/2409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}