{"id":2493,"date":"2019-02-28T18:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euromenaenergy.com\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2019-02-28T18:00:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T18:00:05","slug":"israels-east-mediterranean-pipeline-dreams-fading-as-egypt-cyprus-go-it-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/?p=2493","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s East Mediterranean Pipeline Dreams Fading as Egypt, Cyprus Go It Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-article-entry u-type--epsilon\">While Israeli leaders have turned their attention to campaigning for the\u00a0April 9 election, Cyprus and Egypt have been working behind the country\u2019s back to advance plans for an undersea gas pipeline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-entry u-type--epsilon\">Cyprus and\u00a0Egypt\u00a0in September signed an agreement for a subsea pipeline to carry natural gas from Cyprus\u2019 Aphrodite field to Egypt. Two weeks ago, the Cypriot cabinet took another step forward by approving the September deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-entry u-type--epsilon\">In doing so, Cyprus ignored Israeli claims to a portion of Aphrodite, which lies in Israeli economic waters. The Cyprus-Egypt pipeline also weakens the economic justification for the projected East Mediterranean pipeline, a $7 billion undertaking that would deliver Israeli and Cypriot natural gas directly to Europe via Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Israeli leaders have turned their attention to campaigning for the\u00a0April 9 election, Cyprus and Egypt have been working behind the country\u2019s back to advance plans for an undersea gas pipeline. Cyprus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,48,57,90,96,107,113,137,139,160,174,183,184,201,202,209,230,232,233,244,246,249,256,267,277,279,288],"class_list":["post-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aramco","tag-athens","tag-baroudi","tag-democracy","tag-doha","tag-embargo","tag-energy-peace","tag-gas","tag-gazprom","tag-international-maritime-disputes","tag-lebanon","tag-maritime-boundaries-east-mediterranean","tag-maritime-disputes","tag-offshore","tag-oil","tag-opec","tag-poverty-alleviation","tag-putin","tag-qatar","tag-rosneft","tag-roudi","tag-russia","tag-saudi","tag-straddling-hydrocarbons-reserves","tag-total","tag-trump","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}