Israel Planning to Export Natural Gas to Egypt

Israel is ready to begin natural gas exports to Egypt within four months, Israeli Power Minister Yuval Steinitz informed Reuters on Wednesday.

Israel and Egypt, which mark this year 40 years since signing a peace treaty in 1979, have made significant advances of their natural gas industries in recent times and are competing to turn out to be Jap Mediterranean’s next energy hub.

Israeli officers have described the deal underneath which Israel will export natural gas to Egypt as one of the crucial necessary bilateral agreements since the two countries made peace 40 years ago.

Initially of last year, Israel’s Delek Group and Houston-based mostly Noble Vitality—the principle companions in two massive gas fields offshore Israel—signed agreements to promote significant portions of natural gas from the Leviathan and Tamar fields to Dolphinus Holdings to provide gas in Egypt.

These contracts, one for natural gas from Leviathan and one for Tamar, every present for complete contract portions of 1.15 trillion cubic toes of pure gasoline. The natural gas gross sales, each underneath 10-year contracts, are anticipated to produce industrial and petrochemical clients in addition to future energy generation in Egypt, Noble Vitality mentioned in February 2018.

Delek has estimated that the overall revenues from the Tamar and the Leviathan gas sale offers to Egypt might attain US$15 billion.

It’s not only Israel that has seen natural gas fields developed and turning around its domestic trade—Egypt additionally has so much to indicate off.

Following the beginning-up of the giant gas field Zohr, Egypt has developed into an essential participant within the Mediterranean. Zohr, found by Eni in 2015, performs a necessary function in serving to Egypt to keep away from the necessity to import liquefied natural gas (LNG), in keeping with the Italian oil and gas main.

Egypt obtained last year the backing of the World Bank in its efforts to be a regional oil and fuel trading hub, as several new gas initiatives began up lately within the East Mediterranean nation.