Eastern Mediterranean

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August 08, 2018
The companies developing Israel’s largest natural gas fields and their Egyptian partner have finalized details of a deal that would give them control over a pipeline to Egypt, according to people familiar with the matter, a crucial step that would pave the way for a $15-billion export contract.
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July 04, 2018
A pipeline to transport $10 billion worth of natural gas over 15 years from Israel’s Leviathan field into Jordan will be completed by the end of 2019, according to the company buying the fuel.
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March 05, 2018
Energean O&G signed a financing agreement with Morgan Stanley for $1.27 billion to finance development of two natural gas fields off the coast of Israel.
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February 22, 2018
Egypt said it was settling financial disputes with an Israeli electricity company and a key pipeline operator to turn a $15-billion deal to import gas from the Jewish state into reality.
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February 21, 2018
Schlumberger today announced the award by Noble Energy of an engineering and supply contract for a 2,000-ton single-lift process module to be installed on the Leviathan platform in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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February 21, 2018
Cyprus is nearing an agreement to sell natural gas to Egypt, marking the second potential supply deal in as many days with the North African country vying to position itself as a regional energy hub after the startup of the giant offshore Zohr field.
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February 19, 2018
Noble Energy, Inc., has announced that it has signed agreements to sell significant quantities of natural gas from Leviathan and Tamar fields to Dolphinus Holdings Limited to supply gas in Egypt.
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February 19, 2018
Noble Energy Inc. and Delek Drilling-LP, the lead partners in Israel’s largest gas fields, said they signed a $15 billion agreement to export gas to Egypt’s Dolphinus Holdings.
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February 14, 2018
Zion Oil & Gas, Inc., announces that during the current open hole wireline logging and subsequent reaming (cleaning the well bore) operations, Zion encountered free-flowing hydrocarbons while circulating drilling mud.
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February 09, 2018
Total-led international consortium (Total 40%, ENI 40%, Novatek 20%) signed two Exploration and Production Agreements (EPA) with the Republic of Lebanon, covering Blocks 4 and 9, located in the deep waters offshore Lebanon.
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February 08, 2018
Eni has made a lean gas discovery in Block 6, offshore Cyprus with Calypso 1 NFW.
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February 05, 2018
A U.S.-backed initiative to build an undersea natural gas pipeline between Israel and Turkey looks increasingly troubled as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan escalates his public denunciations of the Jewish state.
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February 01, 2018
Energean Oil & Gas has announced that it has signed a reserves-based senior facility agreement, amounting to $180 million.
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January 30, 2018
Noble Energy, Inc., has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to divest a 7.5% working interest in the Tamar field, offshore Israel, to Tamar Petroleum Ltd. for cash proceeds of approximately $560 million and 38.5 million shares of Tamar Petroleum.
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January 29, 2018
Energean Oil & Gas is pleased to announce that Energean Israel has signed a contract with Stena Drilling for the development drilling of Karish field, offshore Israel.
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January 26, 2018
Connecting Europe announced on Jan. 25 that it will support the introduction of natural gas in Cyprus through the CyprusGas2EU project (EU support of €101 MM).
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May 10, 2017
Tiger Offshore Rentals, a global provider of transportation and storage equipment to the offshore oil and gas industry, has acquired Comea Imprianti Industriali’s entire fleet of DNV-certified offshore cargo carrying units (CCUs) in Italy.
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May 09, 2017
Delek Group Ltd., the Israeli energy company that bought UK oil explorer Ithaca Energy Inc. this year, is seeking a London listing to help further overseas expansion.
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April 13, 2017
A Turkey-Israel gas pipeline deal could be built through Cyprus’ economic waters even without Cypriot consent, a Turkish official said, dismissing what some experts see as a key obstacle to an energy deal between the two Mediterranean countries.
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April 05, 2017
Trendsetter Engineering, Inc. is thrilled to announce the recent award of multiple contracts to design and manufacture subsea production equipment for Noble Energy’s Leviathan Project, a large natural gas field development in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel.
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April 05, 2017
DOHA -- Qatar Petroleum and Exxon Mobil signed an exploration and production sharing contract with the government of the Republic of Cyprus for offshore Block 10.
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