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鈥
Oil majors Statoil, Eni, Total and ExxonMobil have submitted rival bids for three exploration blocks offshore Cyprus in the country's 3rd Licensing Round. Three blocks - 6, 8 and 10 - in the Mediterranean Sea were put on offer, with six applications made鈥
Wood Group Mustang has been chosen by the Leviathan partners to provide the front-end engineering and design (FEED) work for the Leviathan project鈥檚 production platform in a US$120 million deal. Image from Wood Group Mustang Twitter鈥
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鈥
Noble Energy has received approval to move forward with the development of Leviathan, offshore Israel, in addition to inking a US$2.5 billion deal to supply up to 473 Bcf from the highly anticipated project. Image from Delek鈥
Work on Israel鈥檚 giant deepwater Leviathan field could be back on track after a new agreement on the country鈥檚 oil and gas terms. Noble Energy, which operates the field, had put forward its revised Leviathan development plan earlier this year鈥
The Delek Group is moving forward to advance the Leviathan development plan with an accelerated plan for first gas to flow in 2019, as the Israeli company revealed it has already begun discussions with Israel鈥檚 government ministries to reach a solution to the stability clause鈥
Noble Energy says a new ruling by Israel's Supreme Court could further delay the Leviathan offshore mega-project in the Levantine Basin in the Mediterranean Sea. The Houston-based explorer said that the court affirmed Israel's natural gas regulatory framework鈥
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鈥
Planned drilling at Block 12 offshore Cyprus gained a waiver from the government of Cyprus to carry out additional drilling outside of the Aphrodite area, upon the completion of the transfer of 50% of the rights of Noble Cyprus in Block 12 to BG Cyprus鈥
The Delek Group and its Leviathan partners are setting the record straight by refuting recent media reports regarding Leviathan鈥檚 development field plan. Map of Leviathan. From Noble Energy. Media鈥
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鈥
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鈥
Israeli authorities have asked for more information before declaring the Dolphin natural gas discovery a commercial discovery. The declaration of the field as a discovery by the authorities will pave the way for it to be developed as part of the Leviathan project鈥
The Israeli Minister of National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Resources rejected Delek Group鈥檚 petition for Alon B/365, Alon F/369, Ruth A/358 and Ruth B/359 licenses offshore Israel. The rejection follows the Oil Commissionaire鈥檚 previous decision not to approve the extension request鈥
