Leviathan News

Biggest discoveries of the last 10 years

Dec 01, 2014

No end in sight for giant conventional discoveries Despite the developments in unconventionals over recent years, giant conventional oil and gas fields continue to be discovered around the world. Over the past 10 years, eight of the top…

Noble Energy, partners submit Leviathan development plan

Sep 30, 2014

The partnership behind the Leviathan field off Israel has submitted a US$6.5 billion initial development plan to the country’s Ministry of National Infrastructures, Energy and Water Resources, Reuters has reported. Located around 130km from Israel’s coast in around 1600m of water…

Jordan utility company to receive Israeli gas

Sep 03, 2014

Noble Energy has entered into a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) to supply Jordan’s National Electric Power Co. Ltd. (NEPCO) gas from the Leviathan field, located off Israel, the company announced on 3 September 2014. In the US$15 billion deal…

Tamar, Dolphinus LOI to supply Egypt with gas

Oct 20, 2014

Tamar partners and Dolphinus Holdings Ltd. signed a letter of intent for the supply of natural gas from the Tamar project located offshore Israel, to Dolphinus for use in Egypt.  Map of Tamar field. From Noble…

Modiin Energy's Israeli licenses expire

Sep 29, 2014

The Ministry of National Infrastructure, Energy and Water of the State of Israel's Petroleum Commissioner informed Modiin Energy that its Gabriella and Yam Hadera offshore licenses have expired due to the company's failure to achieve program milestones…

Lebanon languishes

Sep 01, 2014

As its bid licensing round is delayed again, will Lebanon’s offshore industry ever take off? Sarah Parker Musarra analyzes the current situation and explores the history of the troubled country. In April, Lebanon once again delayed its…

Leviathan group signs Egyptian export deal

Jun 30, 2014

The Leviathan field consortium has signed a preliminary deal with BG Group to export up to 3.75Tcf of natural gas over a 15-year period to the UK major’s LNG plant in Idku, Egpyt, operator Noble Energy announced. Under the terms of the non-binding letter of intent (LOI)…

Woodside retreats from Leviathan

May 21, 2014

Woodside Energy has axed its plans to purchase a sizeable stake in Israel’s Leviathan gas project, terminating its February memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the joint venture participants, the Australian company announced 20 May. This…

Global Deepwater Review: Strength in numbers

Jun 02, 2014

The Centennial J tanker will be converted by MODEC for Tullow's TEN field. Photo by: Tullow Oil Plc/Joseph Lynch. E&P companies will continue to invest in deepwater exploration and development…

Global Deepwater Review: Driving deeper growth

Jun 01, 2014

As Infield Systems prepares for the annual release of its Deep and Ultra-deepwater Market Report to 2018, we look to global development of the deepwater sector and the emerging trends over the forthcoming five years. Looking back over the previous five-year period…

Woodside still working on Leviathan

Mar 28, 2014

Woodside Energy’s bid to join the offshore Israel Leviathan gas field consortium has missed an agreed deadline, the firm has said.  Australia-based Woodside and the offshore Israel Leviathan project joint venture partners missed a target…

Noble Energy releases Leviathan

Feb 06, 2014

Noble Energy, Inc. announced the signing of a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) regarding the sale of interest in the Leviathan licenses, offshore Israel, to Woodside Petroleum. Each of the existing Leviathan partners, Noble Energy…

Delek extends licenses

Feb 13, 2014

Delek Group's gas subsidiaries announced that the Petroleum Commissioner of the Ministry of Energy and Water Resources announced to the partners in Rachel/349 and Amit/350 licenses its decision with regards to extending the validity of these licenses until 20 March 2014…

Israel attempts to balance regulations, infrastructure with LNG growth

Oct 22, 2013

Israel first hit the international stage as an oil and gas country in 2003, when Houston-based Noble Energy discovered the Mari-B field. The Tamar and Leviathan fields were discovered 2009-2011. All are located in the Levant basin, which encompasses about 83…

Pipeline market to grow in Europe, Asia, and Africa

Nov 14, 2013

Since the turn of the millennium, global pipeline investment has undergone sustained and, in recent years, robust growth as a result of favorable market conditions and industry trends, including: the continued high levels of investment in offshore development…

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