DUBAI, May 9 (Reuters) - Lebanon's caretaker energy
minister Walid Fayyad said on Tuesday there was reason to be
hopeful as the chief executives of TotalEnergies and ENI had
both said they were very optimistic about the country's Block 9.
Fayyad spoke at a panel in Abu Dhabi's World Utilities
Congress conference, and added that the oil and gas exploration
off the coast of Lebanon was set to start in September, and that
"will know by year end if there is a discovery"."
(Reporting by Maha El Dahan; Writing by Tala Ramadan)
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