Israeli, Cypriot officials to meet for natural gas talks - ISRAEL HAYOM

Tuesday October 25, 2016Hezi Sternlicht

• Senior officials from energy ministries to try to finalize agreement on the development of shared gas fields Aphrodite and Yishai 

• Israeli official to fly to Athens on Thursday to discuss the building of tripartite pipeline to export gas from Israel.

Senior energy officials from Israel and Cyprus were scheduled to meet Tuesday to discuss the development of two natural gas fields, Aphrodite and Yishai, which lie on the maritime border between the two nations.

Shaul Meridor, the director general of Israel's National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Ministry, was to meet with his Cypriot counterpart, Stelios D. Himonas, the permanent secretary of Cyprus' Energy, Commerce, Industry and Tourism Ministry. The meeting is the latest effort to finalize an agreement that would pave the way for joint projects on those fields.
Meridor is also scheduled to fly to Athens on Thursday to discuss the building of a pipeline to carry Israeli natural gas to Cyprus and Greece, and from there to other European countries. The discussions on this project have picked up speed in light of the expected development of the large Leviathan gas field off the Israeli coast and Israel's decision to grant more exploration rights next month.

Israel may also be able export gas to Europe through Turkey and Egypt.

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