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Israel’s Largest Gas Field To Begin Production Within Weeks

Israel’s biggest natural gas field, Leviathan, is set to begin gas supply to the local market within three weeks and start exports to Egypt and Jordan shortly after that, in Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Dec 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel
  • Syria

Israel launches air strikes in Syria, Damascus says two killed

Israel said its aircraft struck dozens of Iranian and Syrian military targets in Syria on Wednesday in retaliation for rockets fired toward Israel a day earlier.  Syrian state media reported Continue Reading

Posted On : 20 Nov 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel

Israel prepares gas exports to Egypt after pipeline share transfer

Gas exports by pipeline from Israel to Egypt are on course to begin by the end of 2019 after a 39% stake in the idled EMG pipeline was transferred at Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Nov 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel

Israel Moves One Step Closer To Energy Independence

Greek company Energean Oil and Gas said on Monday that the latest appraisals show an Israeli offshore natural gas discovery is greater than initially expected, boosting Israel’s hopes of becoming Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Nov 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Iran
  • Israel

Iran Prepares For War With Israel

Historian, author and strategic analyst — and onetime industrialist — Gregory R. Copley, 70, has for four decades worked at the highest levels with various… Israeli Prime Minister and Defense Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 Oct 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Iran
  • Israel

Iran Prepares For War With Israel (Part 2)

This is the conclusion to the special report on Iran’s war on Israel, read part one here: Iran Prepares For War With Israel All of the recent geopolitical developments in Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 Oct 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel

U.S.-Mediated Talks On Israel-Lebanon Border Could Revive East Mediterranean Oil

Israel suggested on Monday that it is open to United States-mediated negotiations with Lebanon over a long-standing dispute over a maritime border—and if talks are successful, oil and gas exploration Continue Reading

Posted On : 28 May 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel

Israel Shut Down Its Only Natural Gas Field Amid Rocket Fire From Gaza

Israel’s Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz ordered on Sunday that the country’s only operating natural gas field, the offshore Tamar field, be closed as a precaution after violence between militants in Continue Reading

Posted On : 7 May 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel

Israel to resume Tamar gas field production after Gaza truce

Israel will resume gas production from offshore Tamar field after a ceasefire brought an end to a surge in violence in the Gaza Strip, the energy ministry said on Monday. Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 May 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel
  • North Sea

Israel’s Delek says made offer for Chevron’s North Sea oilfields

Israel’s Delek Group confirmed on Sunday it submitted a proposal through its Ithaca unit to buy Chevron’s oil and gas fields in the British North Sea. Last week Reuters reported Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Apr 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel
  • Shale Oil

US official says shale boom has fueled support for Israel

The US shale boom has made it possible for the Trump administration to take stronger positions in support of Israel, including recognizing its sovereignty over the Golan Heights because it Continue Reading

Posted On : 28 Mar 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt
  • Israel

Procedures for Israeli gas exports to Egypt not yet complete: source

All the requirements needed for the start of Israeli gas exports to Egypt are not yet in place, an Israeli energy ministry source said, with first flows now not expected Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Mar 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt
  • Israel

Israel And Egypt Compete To Become New Energy Hub

The discovery of the giant gas field Tamar of the coast of Israel in 2009 was the beginning of a new period for the Eastern Mediterranean as an energy hot Continue Reading

Posted On : 21 Mar 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel

Exclusive: Exxon eyes Israel gas bid in major Middle East shift

Exxon Mobil Corp is considering exploring for oil and gas in Israel, said a person with direct knowledge of the matter, in what would make Exxon the first oil major Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 Mar 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel

Israel Wants To End New Gasoline, Diesel Cars by 2030

Israel’s Energy Ministry unveiled on Tuesday a plan to end the sale of new gasoline and diesel-powered cars by 2030 and replace them with electric vehicles (EVs) and trucks running Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 Oct 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Iran
  • Israel
  • USA

Iran warns U.S., Israel of revenge after parade attack

The deputy head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned U.S. and Israeli leaders on Monday to expect a “devastating” response from Tehran, accusing them of involvement in an attack on a Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Sep 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Israel
  • Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia Buys Iron Dome Defense System From Israel

Saudi Arabia is reported to have purchased the Iron Dome missile defence system from Israel signaling a rapprochement between the two countries, according to several diplomatic sources quoted in Al-Khaleej Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Sep 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Iran
  • Israel
  • Prices
  • USA

Iran threatens to hit U.S., Israel after Trump aide warns of ‘maximum pressure’

Iran warned on Wednesday it would hit U.S. and Israeli targets if it were attacked by the United States after President Donald Trump’s security adviser said Washington would exert maximum Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Egypt
  • Israel

Egypt To Start Importing Israeli Gas For Re-export In Early 2019

An Egyptian company is set to begin importing gas from Israeli offshore fields in the first quarter of 2019 and to re-export it as part of its plan to become Continue Reading

Posted On : 8 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt
  • Israel

Egyptian company to start gas imports from Israel next year, sources say

 An Egyptian company plans to start importing gas from Israel for re-export in the first quarter of 2019, sources in the country’s energy sector said on Sunday, under agreements signed Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel
  • Yemen

Israel Threatens Military Response Against Houthi Forces

The past year has witnessed a more out in the open proxy war between the two grow in Syria, but the role of both in Yemen has been more obscured: Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel
  • Yemen

Israel warns Iran of military response if it closed key Red Sea strait

Israel would deploy its military if Iran were to try to block the Bab al-Mandeb strait that links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Continue Reading

Posted On : 2 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel
  • Jordan

Washington Pressing Tel Aviv For Gas Pipeline To Jordan

The Trump administration is pressing Israel to go ahead with a gas pipeline deal it signed with Jordan a few years ago, writes Israeli reporter Barak Ravid for Axios, citing Continue Reading

Posted On : 28 Jul 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel

Drilling plans outlined for Israeli offshore natural gas

A floating production facility is slated to start drilling for natural gas off the coast of Israel by early next year, Energean Oil and Gas said Monday. Energean said it Continue Reading

Posted On : 26 Jun 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Iran
  • Israel

Oil Markets Tremble On Iran, Israel Flare-Up

Brent crude briefly jumped above US$77 a barrel today after a flare-up of tensions in the Middle East and an exchange of strikes between Iranian forces in Syria and the Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 May 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Iran
  • Israel

Israel says it attacked targets in Syria after Iranian rocket fire

Israel said it attacked nearly all of Iran’s military infrastructure in Syria on Thursday after Iranian forces fired rockets at Israeli-held territory for the first time. It was the heaviest Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 May 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel

Israel launches massive military strike against Iranian targets in Syria

The Israeli military said Thursday that it had bombed dozens of Iran-linked military facilities in Syria, as tensions between the three countries soared. The army said in a statement that Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 May 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel
  • Syria

Syrian Observatory: Israeli raid in Syria killed Iranians

 The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday an Israeli attack on Iranian military facilities south of Damascus had killed at least 15 people, including eight Iranians. An Israeli Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 May 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel

Israel goes on high alert over Syria as Trump quits Iran deal

Israel went on high alert for a possible flare-up with neighboring Syria on Tuesday as U.S. President Donald Trump announced he was withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. Continue Reading

Posted On : 9 May 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Iran
  • Israel

Netanyahu: Iran Nuclear Deal Is Based on Lies – Here’s the Proof

Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a news conference at the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv, Israel April 30, 2018. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed a cache of Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 May 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Iran
  • Israel

Israel presents Iran nuclear files, putting pressure on U.S. to scrap deal

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stepped up pressure on the United States to pull out of a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, holding a primetime address on Israeli TV to Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 May 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Iran
  • Israel
  • Syria

Iran’s Moves in Syria Raise Risk of Conflict With Israel

Israel faces a harsh new world as Syria’s civil war winds down: while Iran remains far away, the Iranian threat now is next door. There are several hundred miles and Continue Reading

Posted On : 20 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Iran
  • Israel

Are Iran and Israel Headed for Their First Direct War?

Israeli soldiers taking part in a training session last week in the Golan Heights. SYRIA-ISRAEL BORDER, Golan Heights — Ever since the Iranian Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran and Israel Continue Reading

Posted On : 19 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel

Can Israel Compete In The Natural Gas Race?

Israel is a nation that has built its economy on downstream industries, being traditionally bare of natural resources and primary materials. Now, thanks to offshore discoveries of massive natural gas Continue Reading

Posted On : 28 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel

Israeli gas field development proceeds quickly

French energy services company TechnipFMC secures contract for work offshore Israel less than a week after a developer made a final investment decision. Photo courtesy of TechnipFMC March 26 (UPI) Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Greece
  • Israel

Greek company makes $1.6B investment in Israeli gas

Following its initial public offering on the London exchange, Greek energy company Energean said it was making a $1.6 billion investment in gas offshore Israel. Energean said it was using Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel
  • Lebanon
  • Natural Gas Supply

Mediterranean Gas Bounty Suddenly Seems Within Big Oil’s Reach

Big oil companies are pushing into Mediterranean waters off Israel, Lebanon and Egypt after years of U.S. diplomacy helped break open a political logjam around giant Middle Eastern natural-gas discoveries. Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel

Israel to eliminate use of coal, gasoline, diesel by 2030

Israel’s energy minister said this week that the country aims to eliminate the use of coal, gasoline and diesel fuel by 2030. Speaking at an energy conference in Tel Aviv, Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt
  • Israel

Noble Energy, Israel’s Delek to Supply Gas to Egypt in $15 Billion Deal

Investors in Israel’s natural-gas fields agreed to supply an Egyptian company with gas valued at $15 billion, a deal that will build on growing ties between once-hostile neighbors that now Continue Reading

Posted On : 20 Feb 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel
  • Lebanon

Hezbollah Leader Threatens “We Will Open Fire” On Disputed Israeli Offshore Oil & Gas Operations

During a televised address in Beirut on Friday Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah once again warned Israel to back off its claims over disputed oil and gas field just Continue Reading

Posted On : 19 Feb 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt
  • Israel

Israel, Egypt Said to Discuss Gas Exports

Egypt clarified that option to import Israeli gas still open Previous arbitration ruling remains an obstacle to deals A natural gas production platform west of the Ashkelon shore in Israel. Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Nov 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel
  • Lebanon
  • Russia

The Natural Gas Giant To Challenge Israel

When Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri paid a visit to Russian President Vladimir Putin mid-September , most media coverage revolved around political and military issues. Yet the meeting was part Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Oct 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel

Share value for giant Israeli gas field revised higher

The value present in the Leviathan gas field off the coast of Israel was revised higher for one of the drilling partners, an independent review found. Delek Drilling, an Israeli Continue Reading

Posted On : 28 Sep 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Electric Planes
  • Israel

Electric Alice

Eviation’s Orca surveillance drone at 2017 Paris Air Show Israeli startup Eviation plans to build an all-electric short-haul 9-pax airliner capable of flights up to 600 miles and have it Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Jul 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Cyprus
  • Israel
  • Turkey

Turkey warns Greek Cypriots, oil companies against offshore energy grab

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech at the 22nd World Petroleum Congress in Istanbul, Turkey, July 10, 2017. REUTERS/Murad Sezer Turkey warned Greek Cypriots on Friday not to make Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 Jul 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel
  • Renewables

Electric Alice

Eviation’s Orca surveillance drone at 2017 Paris Air Show Israeli startup Eviation plans to build an all-electric short-haul 9-pax airliner capable of flights up to 600 miles and have it Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 Jul 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel

Funding for giant Israeli gas field to be tapped

Parties to the development of the Leviathan natural gas field off the coast of Israel said they’re ready to tap into a loan to facilitate momentum. Delek Group, alongside its Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 May 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Cyprus
  • Israel
  • Oil Supply

Oil Majors See Huge Opportunity In Eastern Mediterranean

Quite suddenly, there is remarkable oil industry news to come out of the East Mediterranean region. If the plan is executed, in the space of seven years the balance of Continue Reading

Posted On : 21 Apr 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Iran
  • Israel

U.S. Lawmakers Back Measures to Protect Israel By Punishing Iran

Aiming to prove their commitment to Israel, senior U.S. lawmakers are backing bipartisan legislation that would slap Iran with new sanctions while maintaining rigorous enforcement of the landmark nuclear deal. Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Mar 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel
  • Peak Oil

Should Israel Fear The Peak Oil Crisis?

Conventional wisdom suggests that the world economy is in a slow but steady recovery from the 2008 financial crisis. Some economists, however, including Nafeez Ahmed , author of several books Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 Mar 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple

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