Israel

Chevron is having to drill a fifth production well at Israel’s Leviathan natural gas and gas-condensate field to keep production ahead of rising demand, driven by exports to Egypt’s growing LNG hub.

Delek Drilling’s deal to sell Abu Dhabi’s state-owned Mubadala Petroleum its stake in Israel’s offshore Tamar gas field kicks off what the Abraham Accords envisioned as the kind of business cooperation that could bring peace to the Middle East and prosperity to the East Med.

A massive oil spill off the coast of Israel is being called the worst ecological disasters in the Mediterranean country’s history. The cause and full extent of the damage is still unknown.

With all permits, personnel, and equipment in place, Zion is set to operate the well.

Europe’s gas pipeline wars are in a muddle as the US throws its support to the EastMed project to supply Israeli gas to Italy, transiting Greece and Cyprus; while at the same time the US is sanctioning the Russian-German Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which is already 90% complete.

Zion expects to spud the Megiddo-Jezreel #2 well at its current well location near Bet She'an by the middle of this month. The new license may be extended for a total of 12 months.

Jumbo Maritime's heavy-lift crane vessel Fairplayer completed the work.

Drilling rig scheduled to arrive on 27 October.

Work has resumed on Energan’s Singapore FPSO; subsea installation for the Karish project continues as planned.

A fault was identified at the Leviathan platform’s production system. This comes a month after a malfunction was discovered at the project’s subsea pipeline.