Israel | Egypt Oil & Gas - Part 9
$500 Million Tamar Deal Finalized Between Israel and Jordan
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu together with Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom authorized Thursday the sale of natural gas from Israel’s Tamar gas field to private clients in Jordan. Under the terms of the $5...
Israeli to Provide Gas Pipeline to Gaza
Hamas deputy politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh said over the weekend that Israel agreed to providing a gas pipeline to Gaza’s power plant – the plant has shut down on numerous occasions given Hamas’s re...
Thai Company Pulling Out of Egypt Gas Pipeline
Thailand’s largest energy firm PTT PCL is keen to sell a 25% stake in Egyptian gas pipeline company East Mediterranean Gas (EMG), which has stopped operations in recent years, chief financial officer Wirat Uanar...
Israel Tries to Preempt Iran Nuclear Deal in France, After US
A delegation of Israeli officials, including Israeli Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz, has traveled to France in a bid to hamper a deal on Iran’s nuclear program as marathon talks on the issue are entering a criti...
Private Egyptian Customers to Buy $1.2 Billion Worth of Tamar’s Natural Gas
A group of private customers in Egypt have agreed to buy at least $1.2 billion of natural gas from Israel’s offshore Tamar field via an old pipeline built to send gas to Israel. The Tamar partners said on Wednes...
Disputed Kurdish Tanker Tracked to Ashkelon
An oil tanker from Iraqi Kurdistan that was blocked for months from unloading in Texas by a Baghdad legal challenge has sailed back to the Mediterranean and delivered its cargo to Israel, according to trading sources ...
Viking Onshore MOU with Zion Oil and Gas
Zion Oil & Gas has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Viking Services for a land-based oil and gas rig with deep drilling capacity and certain other oilfield services and crew for exploration ac...
Sameh Fahmy Acquitted from Corruption Charges
An Egyptian court has cleared former petroleum minister Sameh Fahmi of corruption charges linked to a highly controversial gas deal with Israel, a judicial source said on Saturday. Five other former ministry official ...
