Jumblat: Ghassan Qanso, Not Current Political Rookies, Discovered Lebanon's Offshore Oil in 1975
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Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat revealed on Monday that Dr. Ghassan Qanso was the first individual to discover Lebanon's offshore oil wealth back in the mid-1970s.
He said in his weekly editorial in the PSP-affiliated al-Anbaa website: “Qanso must be credited for the discovery, not some political and non-political rookies who are marking illusory victories on a daily basis, while the Fatmagul Sultan power vessel is docked with a malfunction and unable to generate electricity.”
He explained that Qanso had conducted a thorough report on the offshore wealth, which he presented to late President Elias Sarkis, however it could not be addressed due to the eruption of the Lebanese Civil War.
“Even though years have passed since the report has been issued, its proposals can still be implemented today,” added the MP.
“In fact these proposal could serve as roadmap for Lebanon's petroleum sector instead of the theories, analyses, and musings being thrown around by the current absurdist team,” Jumblat remarked.
The PSP leader urged the entire Lebanese political class to read up on Qasno's report as “perhaps it may derive lessons from it other than the ones costing millions of dollars.”
Scientist Qasno earned degrees in chemistry and petroleum studies.
He received numerous accolades in Lebanon, the Arab League, and former Yugoslavia for his contributions.
He passed away in 2005.
29 April 2013, 14:20
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That's very true, a clear message for the in-law.
Nobody knows if our country has more oil that the levathian/tamar combined. it's propaganda.
29 April 2013, 23:09
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Wow, ft knows what matté is..... C'est classe d'étaler sa culture. Très classe! Mdr.
29 April 2013, 16:25
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Wow.... And I thought Lebanese politics couldn't become any more dramatic and pathetic.
Regardless, assuming what Jumblatt said is true, there's a good reason why no one acted on that report after 1990.
He seems to forget the basic principles of economics, whereby the technology for extracting offshore gas really only became economically feasible in the last decade.
29 April 2013, 16:27
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This FPM hating jumby character is louder than his size. Give him a bottle of Black and let him crawl back to his mountain.
29 April 2013, 16:36
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since 75,.....
which is better getting debts and paying 22 % interest from the country budget that goes for serving the debts or giving oil concessions and getting paid billions for free
anyway what mr joumblat did not say extracting oil in Lebanon was forbidden :
by USA cause Israel was not ready yet
and KSA cause they wanted to submit us by bying our souls
29 April 2013, 19:40
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Naharnet, Happy Palm Sunday, lazy bums. Now you can possibly go back to publishing those lined up comments before they become stale. You punks are incapable of running a website right and you want to run the country? ya friggin 3ein
30 April 2013, 01:14
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for the knowledge of FT the little FPM propagandist who wants bassil to take all the credits, he seems to forget, as usual, all that has been previously done by M14 and the previous gvts concerning the oil studies ...
just to remind him his alzheimer problem....
oh! and if FPMers do not believe me i just advise them to inform themselves by reading who has done what and when..... bassil is just a rookie like jumblat says and barks loud but does little.... like FPM in general ! LOL
30 April 2013, 05:02
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Naharnet, you lazy bums, what the heck are you doing all day? Busy writing your own comments that display your utter incompetence? Get back to work and publish those comments that have been lined up before they get stale or never get published. You cannot even run a website. You want to run the country?
