Israel Grants Approval for Energean to Start production at Karish Offshore Gas Field - OFFSHORE ENGINEER

October 25, 2022

Maayan Lubell and Ari Rabinovitch 

Israel granted Energean permission to start production at the offshore Karish gas field on Tuesday, an Energy Ministry statement said.

Energean has said its floating production storage and offloading vessel [the Energean Power - OE ] is due to start production at Karish in the third quarter but has not given a precise date.

On Oct. 9, the London-listed energy group began pumping gas to its floating production facility as part of reverse flow testing procedures.

Israel and Lebanon on Thursday are expected to sign a U.S.-brokered maritime border deal reached this month, opening the way for offshore energy exploration.

Introducing Zohr - EGYPT TODAY

Sat, Jan. 13, 2018
Doaa Farid 

CAIRO - 13 January 2018: Egypt officially started operations of the Mediterranean’s giant gas field Zohr last month, less than two and a half years since its discovery
and is currently producing 350 million cubic feet a day.

Development works of Zohr went faster than scheduled, as the initial plan was to start production in 2019. But the government is now expecting self-sufficiency of natural gas before the end of 2018, with gas production amounting to 6 billion cubic feet a day. The 350 million cubic feet per day output is the first result of a series of phases in the field. Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek El Molla announced in late December that the first phase of the project would be finalized in June 2018, when production will hit more than 1 billion cubic feet a day. Zohr gas is now pumped through the national grid, processed at the Ministry of Petroleum’s gas treatment plant in Port Said. The newly added production capacity pushed up Egypt’s natural gas production to 5.5 billion cubic feet per day, up from 5.1 billion.

Discovered in 2015 by Italian energy company Eni, Zohr gas field covers an area of 100 square meters with a depth of 1,450 meters. Investing around $10 billion in the project, Eni estimates a total output of approximately 30 trillion cubic feet of gas. The new field will help secure energy needs of a country that consumes around 6 billion cubic feet of gas a day, with 65% of them going toward the electricity sector.

Egypt's Zohr: Towards self-sufficiency in gas? - AHRAM ONLINE

Friday 5 Jan 2018
Amany Ismail

Egypt’s Zohr Field, the largest offshore natural gas field in the Mediterranean, started production on 16 December. It could prove to be a permanent remedy to Egypt’s power needs and bring it closer to the goal of self-sufficiency in the energy sector in 2018.

20/DEC/2017 08:30

The field, with potential resources in excess of 30 Tcf of gas in place, started-up in less than two and a half years from the discovery: a record time for a field of this size in deep waters