Israel gas export

Greek firm Energean to supply Cyprus with gas from Israel’s Karish field

If the project is approved by the Cypriot government, Cyprus will become the third country to import natural gas from Israel after Egypt and Jordan.

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: London-based Energean's drill ship begins drilling at the Karish natural gas field offshore Israel in the east Mediterranean May 9, 2022.
Energy and Infrastructure Minister Eli Cohen.

INGL announces Israel's new deal to export natural gas to Egypt via two billion shekel pipeline

The planned length of the new line (Ramat Hovav–Ashalim–Nitzana) is about 65 km., and will allow the transfer of approximately six billion cubic meters (BCL) of natural gas per year to Egypt. 

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View of the Israeli Leviathan gas field gas processing rig near the Israeli city of Caesarea, on January 31, 2019.

NewMed Energy sees record quarter, with $147m. net profit

NewMed Energy posts 25% profit growth in Q3 as Leviathan gas output and sales surge.

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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during the Friday Prayers and a commemoration ceremony of late Lebanon's Hezbollah leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in Tehran, Iran, October 4, 2024.

Khamenei says Iran will not delay nor rush to confront Israel

In his first public appearance since Tuesday's missile attack , Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Iran's axis of resistance remains undeterred.

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Israel says gas exports to Egypt, Jordan rose 25% in 2023

Israel is positioning itself as a regional energy hub and has committed to supply natural gas to Europe, which has been diversifying away from Russia since its invasion of Ukraine.

FEBRUARY 26, 2024ByREUTERS
An aeriel view of the Israeli 'Tamar' gas processing rig 24 km off the Israeli southern coast of Ashkelon. Noble Energy and Delek are the main partners in the Tamar gas field, estimated to contain 10 trillion cubic feet of gas. June 23, 2014. Photo by Moshe Shai/FLASH90

Could natural gas exports change the Israeli government's trajectory?

DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS: When one’s client is in the midst of a crisis, redirect, divert, and distract the public’s attention to something bigger, preferably better, happening elsewhere.

AUGUST 5, 2023ByHERB KEINON
THE LEVIATHAN gas field platform off the coast of Haifa.

Cyprus says in talks with Israel over pipeline linking gas fields

Cyprus and Israel discussed a new path to exporting gas from Israel to continental Europe that could be operational faster than the proposed EastMed Pipeline.

MAY 15, 2023ByLAHAV HARKOV, REUTERS
Cyprus Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen talk after a news conference at the Presidential Palace in Nicosia, Cyprus March 31, 2023

Karish gas rig begins pipeline tests amid rising fears of war with Hezbollah

Israel gave Energean—the Greek company licensed to pump the gas from Karish—the green light to start testing the pipeline.

OCTOBER 9, 2022ByLAHAV HARKOV, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Karish gas field, located in Israel territory and disputed by Lebanon.

Blinken: US will not be able to stop Israel if Hezbollah attacks over gas

Israel plans to begin drawing gas from the Karish field in the coming weeks amid growing Hezbollah threats.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
AN ISRAELI Air Force F-35 takes off on a training mission in southern Israel.

US mediator in Lebanon-Israel maritime talks to arrive in Beirut this week

US diplomat Amos Hochstein is traveling to Lebanon this week to mediate talks between Lebanon and Israel over shared maritime border.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022ByREUTERS
Lebanon's President Michel Aoun meets with US Special Envoy for Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon October 20, 2021.

Outgoing Likud MK Yuval Steinitz reflects on his time as finance minister

"It wasn't too bad to reduce the excise tax, and what [Financie Minister Avigdor] Liberman did so far is reasonable,” said Steinitz.

AUGUST 21, 2022ByYEHUDA SHARONI/MAARIV
Outgoing Likud MK Yuval Steinitz.

Lapid flies over threatened Israeli gas rig, calls on Lebanon to negotiate

Earlier this month, the IDF shot down three UAVs launched by Hezbollah toward the Karish rig.

JULY 19, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Prime Minister Yair Lapid flies over the Karish gas rig, July 19, 2022

Israel negotiating gas exports to Europe

Egypt and Israel signed an agreement in November to create a framework for transferring Israeli gas to Egypt through which they can send it to Europe.

MAY 22, 2022ByLAHAV HARKOV
THE PRODUCTION platform of the Leviathan natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Haifa: The realization of the commercial potential of the field is in the hands of the companies.

Can Israel become Europe’s gas supplier?

With Europe realizing its complete dependency on Russia's gas, and if played with the right cards, the crisis in Ukraine can be an opportunity for Israel's gas exportation to Europe

FEBRUARY 27, 2022ByZACHY HENNESSEY
General view of the gas station near the border between Ukraine and Poland in the settlement of Drozdovychi, 120 km (75 miles) west of Lviv, January 12, 2009

There's energy security, but new challenges arise

The emergence of regional cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean reflects a newfound commitment to prosperity through integration.

FEBRUARY 5, 2022ByAVIV AYASH, SAM BUCHAN
IN A ONCE-UNTHINKABLE development, the Mubadala Investment Corporation, a sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi, invested $1 billion in the Tamar natural gas field.