Engineering firm Wood Group has started detailed engineering on the Leviathan field development platform after completing front-end engineering and design (FEED) on the project. Leviathan is Noble Energy's giant gas field project in the Mediterranean Sea…
Noble Energy is moving forward with the development of its giant Leviathan project offshore Israel, with first gas targeted for the end of 2019. Image of Tamar operations, from Delek Group. The estimated 22 Tcf gas field…
Offshore exploration could, finally, soon be on the agenda in Lebanon after the country's first offshore licensing round was opened. Lebanon’s Energy Minister Cesar Abi Khalil announced on 26 January the opening and timetable for the round…
Energean Oil & Gas is planning to develop the Israeli Tanin and Karish gas and condensate fields using a floating production solution, the firm announced in a press conference today. Energean says it will submit a formal field development plan (FDP) for both fields…
Noble Energy's long-term plans has cut 60 jobs from its workforce, with 55 of them in Houston, and lays out plans for its offshore assets in the Eastern Mediterranean. Tamar operations, image from Delek…
Israel's Minister of Energy has opened the country's first offshore bid round covering 24 areas in the Levant Basin, with some located close to existing major gas discoveries. The discovery of giant gas fields in the Levant Basin, offshore…
Israel’s Ministry of Infrastructures, Energy and Water Resources (MIEWR) will hold the country’s first offshore energy licensing round in November, offering two dozen blocks in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, according to IHS Energy. The Tamar platform…
Offshore exploration could soon be on the agenda in Lebanon after the country's Prime Minister Tamam Salam was asked to place what would be the first licensing round on the agenda of cabinet meetings as soon as possible. The intention…
Noble Energy and its partners in the Tamar project will drill at the Tamar-8 well offshore Israel in Q4 2016. Image of Tamar operations, from Delek. Tamar-8 is located 100km west of Haifa…
Noble Energy entered into a US$369 million definitive agreement with the Harel Group and Israel Infrastructure Fund (IIF) to offload 3% working interest in the Tamar field, offshore Israel. Image of the Tamar platform…
DNV GL – Business Assurance USA, Inc. issued Noble Energy a certificate of compliance to the SEMS (Safety and Environmental Systems) standard, which represents the highest criteria for safe operations of offshore drilling platforms. This…
Partners on the massive Israeli Leviathan gas field have submitted a new plan for the field to the country's authorities which will decrease its cost by some US$1 billion, increase production capacity by 5 Bcm, and bring the project onstream in Q4 2019…
Two Israeli firms are eying a multi-trillion cubic feet deepwater gas field offshore Israel. According to a resource report by Netherland, Sewell & Associates, the Og field lower sand contains 8.84 Tcf best estimate, unrisked gross prospective…
Noble Energy received the green light from the Israeli government on 17 December, to move forward with the development of Leviathan and the Tamar expansion, despite a last attempt from the Israeli Forum for the Protection of the Coastline that petitioned the High Court to not approve the plan…
Image from Wood Group. Wood Group Mustang has promoted Kent McAllister to the position of president, Offshore Business Unit. He was previously executive vice president for the business unit…
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