Greece, Southern Cyprus Management and Israel have signed a deal for a pipeline designed to move gas from the eastern Mediterranean to Europe. This signing ceremony actually is not a new attempt regarding with the due incoherent pipeline project. More than 3 years, the due sides have been coming together, declaring the same claims about...
1- Introduction: Levant basin extends across the most eastern section of the Mediterranean, (Fig. 1), with Egypt in the southern margin, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon and Syria in its eastern offshore margins. The Levant basin is a deep marine basin (Fig. 1) on the right, outlined in dashed white, with water depths of 1,500-2,000m, and an...
1. Introduction Oil prices are one of the most important items affecting the trends in the global economy. In addition to global sights, being the price levels directly influencing the individual budgets and preferences, sociological impact reaches much higher levels than the expectations. That’s why to have an idea about the tendencies and directions of...
1. Overview of the Coronavirus Crisis Since the Coronavirus, also known as Covid-19, spread outside of China in January 2020 it quickly turned into a global crisis of unprecedented scale, taking a high toll on human life and laying baring the fragility of battle-hardened economies that had not seen a shock alike since the financial...
The Prequel Although it looked like a local problem that was born in Wuhan, China, the new form of the coronavirus Covid-19 spread like wildfire across the globe. The total number of coronavirus cases is nearing 3 million (April 24, 2020) and unfortunately, the death toll is almost 200,000. The virus is thought to have...
Until the recent corona virus outbreak, such a situation can only be occurred in movies having well-written scenarios. Although there are many simulations for possible pandemics, the world seems not well prepared. That is, this outbreak is much beyond available predicted scenarios. Regarding the level of social and economic isolation caused by corona virus outbreak,...
1. Introduction Oil prices are one of the most important items affecting the trends in the global economy. In addition to global sights, being the price levels directly influencing the individual budgets and preferences, sociological impact reaches much higher levels than the expectations. That’s why to have an idea about the tendencies and directions of...
The Coronavirus pandemic, which started in China and continues to spread all over the world, affects everything from individuals, states to the international system in an unpredictable extent. Beyond the real health dimension, it creates a perceptual fear climate, brings life to a halt with its high contagiousness feature, prepares the globalization principle with a...
Biological warfare is the use of living microorganisms or materials derived from them (toxins, genetically modified organisms) for military or terrorist purposes to cause death or incapacitation in man, animals or plants. The deliberate use of microorganisms and toxins as weapons has been attempted in various periods throughout history (Table I). Many biological agents including...
WHAT IS OIL SHALE Oil shale is commonly defined as a fine- grained sedimentary rock containing organ- ic matter (kerogen) that yields substantial amounts of oil and combustible gas upon destructive distillation (retorting). Most of the organic matter is insoluble in ordinary organic solvents; therefore, it is decomposed by heating to release such materials. What...