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US supports Cyprus in its search for offshore gas
The Egyptian Gazette Published in The Egyptian Gazette on 16 - 03 - 2018

NICOSIA, Cyprus, March 16, 2018 (AP) — A senior U.S. State Department official has repeated Washington's support for Cyprus' right to carry out an offshore search for oil and gas.
Assistant Secretary of State Wess Mitchell told reporters after talks with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday that the U.S. also wants to see a resumption of talks to reunify the ethnically divided island nation.
Mitchell's remarks come amid Turkey's strong opposition to what it calls a "unilateral" Greek Cypriot search for hydrocarbons that doesn't directly involve breakaway Turkish Cypriots.
Last month, Turkish warships prevented a rig from reaching an area southeast of Cyprus where Italian company Eni planned to carry out exploratory drilling.
ExxonMobil and partners Qatar Petroleum are scheduled to start drilling southwest of the island this year. France's Total is also licensed to drill.
Italian company Eni is committed to carrying on its search for gas off the east Mediterranean island of Cyprus despite Turkey's strong opposition, the Cypriot government said Thursday.
A statement said Eni is "determined to fulfill its obligations" under its contracts with Cyprus to carry out exploratory drilling in six areas off Cyprus where it has been licensed do to so.
The assurance came after Cypriot Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides met with Eni Executive Vice President Lapo Pistelli in Rome.
The two men agreed on the significance of the eastern Mediterranean as an essential gas source for the region and Europe.
Last month, Turkish warships blocked a rig from reaching an area southeast of Cyprus where Eni was scheduled to drill.
Turkey's government said it would prevent any further drilling off Cyprus without the direct involvement of the ethnically divided island's breakaway Turkish Cypriots.
The island was split in 1974 when Turkey invaded in response to a coup by supporters of union with Greece. A Turkish Cypriot declaration of independence is recognized only by Turkey.
Cyprus' government says the hydrocarbon search is its sovereign right and it will continue because it will benefit all Cypriot citizens. It insists any potential proceeds will be divided equitably after a deal reunifying the island is reached.
This week two research vessels arrived in Cyprus to carry out preliminary environmental and archaeological surveys of an area southwest of Cyprus where ExxonMobil and partners Qatar Petroleum are to carry out exploratory drilling later this year.
France's Total is also licensed to drill off Cyprus. In earlier drilling, US company Noble Energy discovered a gas deposit southeast of Cyprus estimated to hold over 4 trillion cubic feet of gas.

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