| Thursday, June 14, 2012 |
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| The Eratosthenes scandal (Part 2)
In yesterday's article, I said that a study published by a US-Egyptian scientist explained that Mubarak turned a blind eye to oil and gas explorations by Israel and Cyprus over the sunken mountain of Eratosthenes.
An engineer, who is currently working in a Gulf State after being dismissed from his job, told me that some honest officials were aware of the size of the disaster and insisted on sending Egyptian missions to authenticate Egypt's rights in that promising area. In 1999, the Public Authority for Oil sent a major exploration company to work in the area, but its reports were ignored. In 2003, Egypt signed an agreement on marine border demarcation with Cyprus while Israel continued exploration and did not sign the agreement.
Dr. Al-Shafei revealed that the Egypt branch of the Shell Company announced on Feb. 16, 2004 the discovery of huge reserves of gas in two deep wells south east of the Mediterranean Sea. But nobody knows what happened later. Dr. Al-Shafei also said that Israel borrowed the US exploration ship Nautilus, which contains three robot submarines, and surveyed the Eratosthenes Mountain and the entire area surrounding it until they reached the coasts of Egypt. The robot submarines also entered the Nile and took images of its banks.
I believe that this issue must be a priority for the coming president of Egypt in order to restore the dignity and the stolen wealth of Egypt.
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