{"id":3104,"date":"2018-02-22T22:46:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T22:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3104"},"modified":"2018-02-22T22:46:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T22:46:42","slug":"cyprus-sees-gas-deal-with-egypt-as-cairo-weighs-israeli-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/02\/22\/cyprus-sees-gas-deal-with-egypt-as-cairo-weighs-israeli-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"CYPRUS SEES GAS DEAL WITH EGYPT AS CAIRO WEIGHS ISRAELI SUPPLY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/GAS-RIG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3106\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/GAS-RIG-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/GAS-RIG.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/GAS-RIG-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/GAS-RIG-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/GAS-RIG-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/GAS-RIG-260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/GAS-RIG-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>By Georgios Georgiou, Paul Tugwell, Salma El Wardany, and Tarek El-Tablawy<\/p>\n<p>Cyprus is nearing an agreement to sell natural gas to Egypt, marking the second potential supply deal in as many days with the North African country vying to position itself as a regional energy hub after the startup of the giant offshore Zohr field.<\/p>\n<p>Cyprus would supply Egypt from the Aphrodite field, which was discovered by Noble Energy Inc. and contains an estimated 4.5 trillion cubic feet of gas. Noble Energy, with Delek Drilling-LP, said Monday it plans to sell gas to Egypt\u2019s Dolphinus Holdings Ltd. from Israel\u2019s Tamar and Leviathan deposits. Egypt\u2019s government still must approve the proposed 10-year deal for shipments from Israel, the Egyptian oil ministry said Tuesday in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCyprus is close to selling natural gas to Egypt\u2019s liquefied natural gas plants, and we could reach an agreement in the coming weeks,\u201d Energy Minister Georgios Lakkotrypis said in a telephone interview from Nicosia. The Egyptian LNG plants of Idku and Damietta lie some 400 miles (645 kilometers) south of Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-02-20\/cyprus-sees-gas-deal-with-egypt-as-cairo-weighs-israeli-supply<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: Bloomberg By Georgios Georgiou, Paul Tugwell, Salma El Wardany, and Tarek El-Tablawy Cyprus is nearing an agreement to sell natural gas to Egypt, marking the second potential supply deal in as many days with the North African country vying to position itself as a regional energy hub after the startup of the giant offshore&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/02\/22\/cyprus-sees-gas-deal-with-egypt-as-cairo-weighs-israeli-supply\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CYPRUS SEES GAS DEAL WITH EGYPT AS CAIRO WEIGHS ISRAELI SUPPLY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[465],"class_list":["post-3104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-egypt","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104","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=3104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3107,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104\/revisions\/3107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}