Offshore natural-gas discoveries have released Israel from complete reliance on imported primary fuels and are allowing for a cleaner energy mix. Furthermore, additional production will soon come on stream, and there is a reasonable chance of new commercially viable gas finds, and possibly of...

The world economy is now facing a number of new disturbing questions. In this context, the political, social and economic equilibrium of the Mediterranean area is a key issue which concerns the entire world. In the search for equilibrium, the Mediterranean energy industry, which is characterized...

A un moment où l’économie mondiale se trouve confrontée à de graves préoccupations, l’équilibre économique, politique et social du bassin méditerranéen est un enjeu majeur qui concerne le monde entier. Dans cet équilibre, le secteur énergétique, marqué par des inégalités et...

China's global quest for resources, in particular oil and natural gas, has received unprecedented worldwide attention and scrutiny. This is partly because of China's own high-profile, active energy diplomacy, its national oil companies' acquisitions in the key exporting regions of oil and...

China is a rising global power with a growing role and impact on the world's energy markets as well as on the Earth's climate system. China pursues its development in an essentially non-confrontational manner, a vision encapsulated by the notion of peaceful rise which is viewed positively in the...