Dr Charles Ellinas

Progress at the climate summit COP30, taking place at Belem in Brazil and being attended by more than 190 countries, has been slow and patchy. Agreements on most of the contentious ...

COP30 reached mid-point during the weekend, but despite the positive spin by the hosts Brazil, real progress made so far is limited. Even though more progress is likely this week, ...

The US has developed a comprehensive energy policy that includes southeast Europe and the Mediterranean. This was the subject at the two-day high level meeting of the Partnership for Transatlantic ...

COP30 has started at Belem in Brazil, but with low expectations. Not only under President Trump the US has pulled out of the Paris Agreement – starting January – but his administration ...

Chevron-Hellenic Energy Consortium’s selection: A geopolitical analysis for Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean In a very important development, the Chevron-Hellenic Energy consortium has been selected as the preferred investor ...

Cyprus will be assuming the Presidency of the Council of the EU during the first half of 2026. In order to enable discussion of the aims and priorities of the incoming ...

We have been asking the president to take a clear position on GSI. He took it. He confirmed the government’s full support at his meeting with Greece’s prime ...

In recent interviews Mike Wirth, Chevron’s CEO, detailed the company’s priorities and plans for the foreseeable future. He said “so long as the world is using oil and ...

The single aim of the competitive electricity market (CEM) must be to bring about substantial reductions in Cyprus’ very high electricity prices. Anything else is of secondary importance and certainly ...

It has been a tumultuous week for energy in Cyprus. Its two biggest projects, the import of LNG at Vasilikos and the GSI electrical interconnector, were in the limelight mostly ...

American oil companies became involved in the Middle East right from the start of the oil industry in the region. A Standard Oil subsidiary, that later became Chevron, gained concessions ...

Wildfires, droughts, increased electricity demand, impacts on agriculture and tourism: with climate change they have not only become permanent but are intensifying. And making it even more challenging, the Mediterranean ...

The Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) as a key strategic project was the clear and unequivocal view expressed by the European commissioner for energy, Dan Jorgensen, during his visit to Athens ...

Pegasus lived up to his name and delivered for ExxonMobil. It “gushed forth” gas from the depths of block 10. Pegasus’s name comes from the Greek word “pêgê,” meaning “...

As Europe advances on a sustainable energy future, the challenge of building clean, reliable and affordable energy systems is both urgent and complex Success in building a sustainable energy future ...

On a purchasing power basis Malta had the lowest electricity price in Europe in 2024, in contrast to Cyprus that had the second highest price. Both are small island states within ...

It is now official. The commercial operation of Cyprus’ Competitive Electricity Market commences on September 15, with the first trading day on October 1. It took an inordinate length of time to ...

This is focused on Cyprus, Egypt and Israel. All three countries have abundant renewable energy potential, especially solar. But so far success in harnessing it is mixed. Cyprus produced 24 per ...

In a report entitled “Europe’s waters: key challenges and EU solutions”, published on May 7, the European Parliament (EP) draws attention to the key issues concerning Europe’s scarcity, pollution ...

Will there be room to use LNG created in the region even if it does come online? East Med energy revolves around the biggest country in the region, Egypt. It ...

What happened in Spain and Portugal on April 28 brought home how insecure our energy systems have become. For about 20 hours Spain, Portugal and parts of southern France experienced a widespread ...

With President Trump pausing his punitive tariffs for 90 days, it will take time before the negotiations that will follow realign global trading to the new developing international order. Already analysts ...

In an article in MEES, Peter Stevenson reveals that ExxonMobil’s Electra well in block 5 was unsuccessful. It encountered gas, but not in commercial quantities. There were high expectations that ...

Even though energy commodities – oil, natural gas and refined products – were largely spared collateral fallout from US President Donald Trump’s new ‘Liberation Day’, the new tariffs have pushed oil ...