Mediterranean Sea-focused oil and gas company Energean has this week announced the connection of its Karish offshore gas field to the Israel National Gas Line (“INGL”), 'an important milestone in facilitating the operational readiness of the Karish field development…
Israel's Delek Drilling, a company that owns a stake in the giant Leviathan gas field offshore Israel, and in the undeveloped Aphrodite gas field offshore Cyprus, is changing its name to NewMed Energy. Apart from changing the name, the company…
Offshore installation firm Havfram has won a contract for subsea umbilicals, risers, and flowlines support work in Egypt for Saipem. The contract will see Havfram deploy a laying and construction vessel offshore Egypt to the Zohr field, the largest gas field in the Mediterranean Sea…
Oslo-listed subsea services provider Reach Subsea has won a contract in the Mediterranean Sea for start-up early in Q2 2022, representing about 130 project days. The project, with an undisclosed client, involves the support of an Ocean Bottom…
Israel's energy minister said on Tuesday that it would not be a problem if Israeli natural gas that is exported to Egypt makes its way to Lebanon, a long-time enemy that is dealing with an energy crisis.Lebanon has already signed a deal with…
Offshore vessel operator Nortrans has scored a 5-year contract extension with Chevron in Israel for its Nor Naomi offshore vessel.Chevron Med. Ltd, is using the Nor Naomi DP2 IMR/ROV subsea vessel to support the Tamar and Leviathan gas field operations in Israel…
U.S. oil major ExxonMobil has started drilling the Glaucus-2 well in Block 10, offshore Cyprus, to better understand the size of the giant Glaucus-1 gas discovery made in the block back in 2019.The news was shared this week by the Cypriot Ministry of Energy…
Oil and gas company Energean, working to develop the Karish gas field offshore Israel, has signed an EPC contract with process engineering business Kanfa for the supply of a second, 700-tonne oil train for the Energean Power FPSO, which is currently under construction in Singapore…
A consortium of ExxonMobil and QatarEnergy has signed an exploration and production sharing contract with the Republic of Cyprus for the offshore Block 5 located southwest of the island.This is QatarEnergy’s second exploration block in the Republic of Cyprus…
Turkey on Thursday accused Cyprus of violating its continental shelf by awarding an exploration license in the Mediterranean to Exxon Mobil and Qatar Petroleum, adding it will not allow unauthorized exploration in its jurisdiction.For decades…
Lebanon re-launched a second offshore oil and gas licensing round for eight remaining blocks on Friday, with the deadline for submission of bids set for June 15, 2022, the Lebanese Petroleum Administration said on its website.The round was initially…
Oil and gas company Energean expects to bring online its Karish field offshore Israel next year, with the associated FPSO construction nearly complete in Singapore.While Energean said Wednesday the gas production start-up from the Mediterranean Sea gas field „remains on track“ for mid-2022…
The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah on Friday warned Israel against drilling for oil and gas in the disputed maritime border area between the two countries until the issue is resolved, and said the Iran-backed group would take action if it did so…
The U.S. mediator for indirect talks on border demarcation between Lebanon and Israel said on Thursday that the negotiations he was hoping to revive should be concluded in a short period if they were to succeed.Amos Hochstein, speaking to Al Hadath TV during a visit to Beirut…
Israel is considering the construction of a new onshore pipeline to Egypt in order to quickly boost natural gas exports to its neighbour in the wake of the recent tightening of global supplies, the Israeli energy ministry said.The pipeline,…