by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Feb 7, 2011 | Power & Water
According to MEED, despite the obvious lack of government, Lebanon is proceeding with its Greater Beirut water scheme: Lebanon has invited expressions of interest (EoI) from consultants to advise on the designing of a water distribution system in Greater Beirut....
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Oct 10, 2010 | Power & Water
Lebanon has apparently decided to go for the pipelines: Lebanon will offer tenders next month for the construction of its first pipeline for liquefied natural gas, part of a strategy to revamp the country’s power industry and curtail electricity outages. The energy...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Sep 14, 2010 | Power & Water
With news spreading earlier in the summer of hydrocarbons buried beneath Lebanon’s coast, it seems the vultures have already started circling: Lebanon is receiving offers from several international companies seeking to participate in the country’s planned...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Sep 5, 2010 | Power & Water
The CEO of the Italian energy giant Eni SpA was in Beirut on Thursday where he met President Michel Suleiman to discuss Lebanon’s energy needs: Eni SpA Chief Executive Officer Paolo Scaroni met Lebanon’s President Michel Suleiman today in Beirut to discuss...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Aug 24, 2010 | Power & Water
In the face of massive power cuts in Egypt, the government in Cairo has decided to end electricity exports to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Libya: The contracts signed with these countries stipulate that the power supply will be from surpluses during off-peak periods,...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Aug 23, 2010 | Power & Water
I just received via Electricity Minister Gebran Bassil’s official fan page on Twitter his plan (the executive summary of the plan) to reform the electricity sector in Lebanon. The 3-page document is in Arabic however, you can use Google to translate (it does a...