Gulf Daily news: GCC firms urged to invest in Cyprus oil-gas sector

Big oppportunities lie ahead for GCC investors as Cyprus gears up to tap significant hydrocarbon resources below the Eastern Mediterranean seabed, a consultant has said.

"An estimated 27 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas have already been discovered and GCC countries need to move fast to set up joint ventures and partnerships," Business Links Consultancy president and managing director Christos Yiangou told the GDN.

Mr Yiangou was speaking on the sidelines of the Al Dana and Ferguson Partners conference yesterday.

His company is a business development firm located in Cyprus and specialises in business match-making within Europe and the Middle East. "Roughly 7tcf of natural gas in the Aphrodite field could be worth upward of $70 billion at current prices.
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