ISRAEL PONDERS WHETHER TO EXPORT NATURAL GAS
January 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL, PAUL COCHRANE, IN BEIRUT; AND HELENA FLUSFELDER, IN JERUSALEM
IT is not often that a country that has serious energy security issues gets to choose about whether it wants an energy export industry - but the State of Israel is in this relatively happy situation.
Infrastructure construction is underway to bring the estimated 250 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas on the Tamar field, 90 kilometers offshore from Haifa, to Israel's domestic market by 2013. And the government is now debating what to do with another discovery of an estimated 460bcm, ...
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