Israel's offshore Tamar and Leviathan gas fields in Eastern
Mediterranean Sea have a significant discovery in order to meet
Europe's rising gas and energy need. Europe's energy
dependence to Russia has been known as the top discussed energy
issue over the years, yet a problem needed to be solved or find an
alternative gas pipeline route because Europe do not want to rely
on Russian Gas anymore. Considering Middle East situation and
Turkey's geopolitical position, transmission of the Leviathan
gas through Turkey seems to be best way to locate pipeline
routes.
Europe's Natural Gas Dependence and the Role of Turkey
Although Europe has brought a wind and solar initiative by
several directives in order to attract investors' interest in
renewable energy, these initiatives are not enough to meet energy
need of Europe and it seems that Europe needs time in order to
improve electricity generation from renewables so that it still
needs other type of energy resource for