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A view of the Leviathan natural gas processing rig from Dor Habonim Beach Nature Reserve, on January 1, 2020. (Flash90)
March 10, 2025, 6:44 pm
Israel and Azerbaijan’s state oil firm set to seal plan for offshore gas exploration
Azerbaijan’s SOCAR along with Israel’s NewMed Energy and British oil and gas company BP win natural gas exploration licenses for blocks in proximity to the Leviathan reservoir
By Sharon Wrobel
View of the Israeli Leviathan natural gas field gas processing rig as seen from Dor Habonim Beach Nature Reserve, on January 1, 2020. (Flash90/File)
October 7, 2024, 6:53 pm
Chevron suspends work on expansion of Leviathan gas field due to the escalating war
Operator of Israel’s offshore reservoir halts infrastructure plans until April 2025; construction was intended to boost production for export and domestic supply
By Sharon Wrobel
View of the Israeli Leviathan natural gas field gas processing rig as seen from Dor Habonim Beach Nature Reserve, on January 1, 2020. (Flash90/File)
October 29, 2023, 11:54 pm
Amid ongoing war, BP and Eni among firms awarded gas exploration licenses in Israel
Energy Ministry says a total of 12 licenses have been given to six companies, four of which are new players in the exploration of natural gas off the country’s Mediterranean coast
By Sharon Wrobel
View of the Israeli Leviathan natural gas field gas processing rig as seen from Dor Habonim Beach Nature Reserve, on January 1, 2020. (Flash90/File)
July 16, 2023, 8:53 pm
4 groups submit bids for new natural gas exploration tender offshore Israel
Energy Ministry says a total of 9 companies, out which 5 are new, are in the bidding round for licenses
By Sharon Wrobel
A UNIFIL Navy vessel seen through barbed wires patrols in the Mediterranean Sea, next to a UN post along the border known as Ras Naqoura, where Lebanese and Israeli delegations met to finalize a maritime border agreement, off the southern town of Naqoura, Lebanon, October 27, 2022. (Mohammed Zaatari/AP)
November 9, 2022, 4:17 pm
After Israel agreement, Lebanon seeks maritime border talks with Syria
Beirut looking to talk to Damascus, which used to control Lebanese affairs, in bid to consolidate offshore rights; area could be bigger than the one disputed with Jerusalem
By AFP
Illustrative: People on the beach take photos of the 'Tungsten Explored' drilling ship, in the southern coastal city of Larnaca, Cyprus, November 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)
October 29, 2022, 11:02 am
After Israel deal, Lebanon and Cyprus agree to move forward on maritime border talks
Beirut must complete talks with northern neighbor Syria before the maritime border with Cyprus can be finally demarcated; Damascus has reportedly refused to hold discussions
By AFP
US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum in Jerusalem on December 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
October 8, 2022, 3:50 am
US envoy: Claims Israel is ceding to Hezbollah in Lebanon gas deal are ‘ridiculous’
Ambassador Tom Nides derides criticism of US-brokered negotiations made by Netanyahu, says predecessor David Friedman is ‘wrong’ to assert potential agreement favors Lebanese side
By Jotam Confino
Lebanese President Michel Aoun, right, meets with US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale, center, and, US Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea, left, at the presidential palace, in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, April 15, 2021. (Dalati Nohra/Lebanese Official Government via AP)
April 15, 2021, 7:30 pm
Lebanon demands Israel halt gas search after expanding claims in disputed area
Beirut insists it has right to hundreds more square miles of Mediterranean in indirect talks with Israeli officials on offshore fuel exploration, angering Jerusalem
By AFP
Elissar Zakaria Khoury, known popularly by her stage name Elissa, in an interview with MTV Lebanon, November 12, 2020. (Screengrab: Memri TV)
November 27, 2020, 1:07 pm
Lebanese singer: Border talks prove it’s a lie by officials that Israel is enemy
Elissa says she supports peace with any country, animosity between Beirut and Jerusalem is ‘conspiracy’ concocted by Lebanese officials  
By ToI Staff and Agencies
UN military vehicles of the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) enter the southern Lebanese border town of Naqura, where the second round of talks started on October 28, 2020, between Lebanon and Israel at a UN base on the demarcation of the maritime frontier between the two countries. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)
November 11, 2020, 4:33 pm
War of the maps: Lebanon and Israel battle over sea border in new round of talks
Dispute over control of offshore gas deposits in 860-square-kilometer zone has seen Beirut demand an additional 1,430 square kilometers, while Jerusalem aims to push frontier north
By AFP
A helicopter flies over a base of the UN peacekeeping force, in the town of Naqoura, Lebanon, October 14, 2020, during the first round of talks between Lebanese and Israeli delegations on the countries' maritime border. (AP/Bilal Hussein)
October 28, 2020, 12:35 pm
Israel and Lebanon hold ‘heated’ second round of maritime border talks
Day of negotiations mediated by US and UN concludes; discussions to continue Thursday in Lebanese border town of Naqoura, with faint hopes they could lead to wider detente
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Israeli soldiers take their positions on board the Navy Ship Lahav during a rare tour of Israel's offshore Leviathan gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020 (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
October 3, 2020, 6:50 pm
Israeli navy prepares for arrival of new upgraded warships
After a delay caused by coronavirus, troops to receive German-made ‘Sa’ar 6’ in December; missile boat will lead efforts to protect gas installations threatened by Hezbollah
By Ariel Schalit
The drilling vessel Fatih deployed by Turkey to search for gas and oil in waters considered part of the EU state's exclusive economic zone on June 24, 2019 (AFP)
January 19, 2020, 2:13 pm
EU warns Turkey against ‘illegal’ Mediterranean gas exploration plans
After Erdogan vows to start searching waters ‘as soon as possible,’ defying a mega-deal signed by Israel, Greece and Cyprus, European countries accuse Ankara of stoking conflict
By AFP and ToI Staff
Italy's populist Five Star Movement (M5S) party leader Luigi Di Maio, addresses journalists a day after Italy's general elections, on March 5, 2018 in Rome. (AFP PHOTO / Filippo MONTEFORTE)
January 18, 2020, 2:41 pm
Italy’s foreign minister expresses doubts over feasibility of EastMed pipeline
Luigi Di Maio says $7.4 billion cost and construction process of line to ship gas to Europe are prohibitive; deal was inked between Greece, Cyprus and Israel earlier this month
By ToI Staff and AFP
File: Turkish navy ships in 2015 (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
December 14, 2019, 11:22 pm
Turkish ships said to force Israeli research vessel out of Cypriot waters
According to TV report, Turkish navy intercepts Israeli boat, orders it to leave; Turkey’s recent maritime deal with Libya has fueled regional tensions over drilling rights
By ToI Staff
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