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A giant fire erupts at an oil storage facility following Israeli strikes in Yemen's Houthi-held port city of Hodeida on July 20, 2024. (AFP)
July 23, 2024, 10:32 pm
Houthis threaten to attack Israeli ports, gas fields after weekend strike on Hodeida
Yemeni terrorist group releases a propaganda video supposedly showing the Jaffa drone that was launched at Tel Aviv last week, killing an Israeli man
By Gianluca Pacchiani and Emanuel Fabian
Illustrative -- Energean working in the Karish oil field, offshore Israel, in 2020. (Screen capture/YouTube)
July 23, 2024, 2:48 pm
Energean to invest $1.2 billion to develop Katlan gas project off Israel coast
Initial gas production from group of formations located near the existing Karish and Tanin projects planned for first half of 2027
By Reuters
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (Ronen Zvulun and Ozan Kose/AFP)
June 23, 2023, 1:42 pm
Netanyahu and Turkey’s Erdogan reportedly aiming to meet in July
Two leaders could discuss potential gas exports from field off Gaza, with supply shortages driven by Russian invasion of Ukraine incentivizing cooperation
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A fisherman navigates rough seas along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in Gaza City, April 11, 2018. (Adel Hana/AP)
June 18, 2023, 3:13 pm
Netanyahu announces advance in long-stalled plans to develop gas field off Gaza
After decades of false starts, Prime Minister’s Office says plan aimed at boosting Palestinian economic development, in coordination with Egypt and the PA
By ToI Staff
Energean floating production, storage and offloading vessel. Energean's floating rig arrived at the Karish field in June 2022. (Energean / Suez Canal Authority / AFP)
October 26, 2022, 6:10 pm
Gas extraction begins at Karish field, day before Israel-Lebanon deal signing
Offshore field is Israel’s third to come online, with Energean saying production ‘is being steadily ramped up,’ will reach peak in 4-6 months
By Tobias Siegal and Lazar Berman
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)
July 27, 2022, 11:19 am
Turkey to resume drilling for gas near Cyprus, potentially inflaming tensions
Exploration in East Mediterranean region slated to begin August 9; Ankara has a maritime border dispute with Greece and Cyprus
By AFP
Lebanese President Michel Aoun, right, meets with US Envoy for Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein, center, and US Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea, left, at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, February 9, 2022. (Dalati Nohra/Lebanese Official Government via AP)
June 11, 2022, 3:09 am
US envoy heading to Beirut to mediate Israel-Lebanon maritime gas dispute
Visit comes as Israel sends gas rig to disputed field and Hezbollah threatens to attack it if drilling begins before border disagreement is resolved
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks during a rally to mark Al-Quds day, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on August 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
June 9, 2022, 11:41 pm
Hezbollah leader says group can thwart Israeli gas extraction, won’t stand idly by
Nasrallah warns Jerusalem to not begin operations at new Karish gas rig, which Beirut claims is in disputed maritime territory; Liberman tells terror chief ‘to stay in his bunker’
By Aaron Boxerman 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
Illustrative: A crew works on seepage of 800,000 gallons of oil and brine water oil from an abandoned well in Chevron Corp's Cymric oilfield in McKittrick, California, July 24, 2019 (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via AP, Pool, File)
August 6, 2020, 5:19 pm
Dear Noble Energy shareholders, Chevron is about to take you for a ride
OPINION: Israel won’t keep paying triple price for its own gas, and Chevron’s value will fall when climate is back on the US agenda. You will lose. All of us will.
By Maya Jacobs and Yosef I. Abramowitz
A helicopter flies over Turkey's drilling ship, 'Fatih' dispatched towards the eastern Mediterranean, near Cyprus, on July 9, 2019. (Turkish Defence Ministry via AP, Pool)
January 22, 2020, 2:48 pm
Cyprus: Turkey may have stolen data for latest gas drilling
Island country says it doesn’t have specific proof, but believes pilfered plans and studies are what enabled Turkish exploration ship to sail straight to target spot
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS
A Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 drone is seen shortly after its landing at an airport in Gecitkala, known as Lefkoniko in Greek, in Cyprus on December 16, 2019. (DHA via AP)
January 19, 2020, 9:39 pm
Cyprus blasts ‘pirate state’ Turkey’s new gas drilling bid
Nicosia says despite emerging energy-based partnerships among countries in eastern Mediterranean, Istanbul has opted to ‘go down path of international illegality’
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS
Lebanese Energy Minister Nada Boustani displays a map of offshore oil and gas blocks in the Mediterranean, on June 12, 2019 during an interview to AFP in Beirut. (Anwar Amro/AFP)
June 15, 2019, 10:12 pm
Lebanon says Russia, Europe eye investment in oil and gas
As progress made in talks with Israel, companies look at Lebanese energy sector as it prepares to start offshore drilling by end of 2019; US says American firms can join
By AFP and ToI Staff
This picture taken on January 31, 2019, shows a view of the SSCV Thialf crane vessel after laying the newly arrived foundation platform for the Leviathan natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, about 130 kilometers (81 miles) west of Haifa. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/AFP)
March 14, 2019, 4:50 am
Exxon said considering gas, oil exploration in Israel
Officials from US energy giant meet with Israeli energy minister ahead of rights auction in June, Reuters reports
By ToI Staff
Israelis set the record for the world's largest 'surfing paddle-out' in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Herzliya, as part of a protest against natural gas drilling near Israel's coastline. (Screen capture: Hadashot news)
June 22, 2018, 7:00 pm
Israeli surfers claim to set world record with gas-drilling protest
1,000 people form human circle off Herzliya coast in what they say is the largest-ever ‘paddle out,’ call for gas rigs to be moved further from shore
By ToI Staff
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