Gas and Oil Explorations in the Levant Basin: The Case of Lebanon and Israel

This article aims, in general, to address the energy discoveries in the Levant Basin with respect to Lebanon and Israel, and, in particular, to focus on the emerging dispute between Lebanon and Israel over the overlapped EEZ area. Furthermore, it examines specifically the various complications, including legal challenges, related to the settlement of this maritime dispute and the delimitation of the EEZ boundaries of both countries and that are crippling the exploitation of the energy reserves situated within the disputed EEZ area.