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Will Israel’s nonchalance turn off Woodside? Israel is not against gas exports in principle. The main debate dividing the country has been centered around the quantities of gas to export (and hence the amounts of gas to preserve for domestic uses). The cabinet has yet to decide on those ratios...
Cyprus is negotiating with Israel’s Delek Drilling to develop a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal by 2020 to tap the East Mediterranean’s natural gas and serve buyers in Europe and Asia, writes Reuters on Wednesday. "Delek confirmed strong interest in our plans and that they are very...
Hundreds of Israelis have been demonstrating over the past week outside the home of Energy Minister Silvan Shalom against his plan to export natural gas found offshore Israel. In late 2011, a committee headed by Shaul Tzemach, the former director general of the Water and Energy Ministry, was appointed...
Surveys have indicated there is more natural gas than estimated off the coast of Israel near the giant Leviathan field, a US-Israel group says. Noble Energy and its drilling partners from Israel, Avner Oil Exploration and Delek Drilling, said there are "significant signs" of natural gas at its...
Turkey is closer to coming to an agreement over joint energy projects with Israel, according to reports in regional newspapers. Today's Zaman quotes Turkish officials as stating they are moving towards a positive attitude towards “extensive cooperation” with Israel and Cyprus. Turkish President...
Lebanon's political and sectarian rivalries, along with its maritime dispute with Israel, could hamper the country's drive to exploit large natural gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean, a new study warns. A report by Oxford Analytica cautioned that corruption endemic among Lebanon's political class...
Development of Israel's potentially rich Leviathan gas field should begin shortly, according to the Australian company which has just signed a big exploration contract. Leviathan holds an estimated 18 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of gas. Chief executive of Woodside, which signed a deal with Israel...
Natural Gas Europe was pleased to have an opportunity to interview Dr. Theodore Tsakiris, Assistant Professor, Geopolitics of Hydrocarbons, University of Nicosia, Cyprus, at the 2nd Annual Cypriot-Greek Oil & Gas 2013 Summit organized by IRN in the southern coastal town of Limassol.
What does it mean? In economics, the Dutch disease is the apparent relationship between the increase in the exploitation of natural resources and the decline in the manufacturing sector (as defined by Wikipedia). Generally, an increase in export revenues from natural resources will strengthen the country’s...
Israel, where the rich Tamar gas field started yielding earlier this month, is now considering exports to neighbours such as Jordan, Turkey and even Egypt. According to the Financial Times, the chief executive of Delek Drilling said his country's gas sector was was looking at possibilities to export...
