Partners in Israel’s in the Leviathan gas field approved a development plan for the field with a target production date for the end of 2019.

Israel approved developing the leviathan gas field which will be second source of gas supply to the government and will turn it into a gas exporter.

The Israeli Supreme Court's ruling on the development of the Leviathan gas field will further complicate intended Israeli gas export deals with Egypt, Jordan, Turkey and other states.

Israel’s High Court of Justice struck down a deal that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached in December to enable the development of a major offshore natural gas field, Leviathan, causing further delays in gas exports from the field.

An Israeli-Jordanian pipeline will start supplying natural gas from the Israeli Tamar offshore field to Jordan in 2017 for an initial term of 10 years.

Israel’s natural gas companies and Noble Energy Inc. have signed the first contract to supply 6bcm of gas from the country’s largest gas reserves, the offshore Leviathan field, to the country's two power stations owned by Edeltech group over 18 years.