Tag Archives: natural gas

Debating Israel’s natural gas boon

Posted on 27 May 2013 by

Israel’s newly discovered natural gas finds have given a huge boost to the country, economically, politically and with positive implications on the security front too. However there is now fierce debate going on in Israel over what to do with … Continue reading →

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Israel begins its energy independence as natural gas flows from Tamar field to Ashdod

Posted on 31 March 2013 by

This news is too good to hold on to for a whole week until my next Good News Friday post.  Israel’s Tamar offshore natural gas field began pumping its gas to Ashdod’s intake center, four years after its discovery: The … Continue reading →

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Good News Friday

Posted on 15 February 2013 by

Here’s the latest installment in my Good News Friday series. My first item comes from the world of literature against the background of “BDS syndrome”. The Spanish writer Antonio Munoz Molina received the Jerusalem Prize and refused to give in … Continue reading →

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Israel’s natural gas receiving buoy goes online

Posted on 29 January 2013 by

Here is some more excellent news to brighten up our week: last week it was reported that Israel Natural Gas Lines (INGL) had completed construction of a marine liquefied natural gas receiving buoy and would begin receiving natural gas immediately: … Continue reading →

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Good News Friday

Posted on 4 January 2013 by

Here is the latest installment in my Good News Friday series. My first item comes from my old homeland, England, where the Queen awarded an OBE to British-Israeli Professor Penelope Ur, for her work in promoting the English language: Prof. … Continue reading →

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Israel as energy superpower?

Posted on 3 July 2012 by

Back to regular programming. A fascinating and rather optimistic article by Walter Russel Mead in the American Interest posits that Israel looks likely to emerge as an energy superpower in the near future, with all the political ramifications associated with … Continue reading →

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Israeli natural gas well goes online ahead of schedule

Posted on 14 June 2012 by

Some really good news from the natural gas industry was made public today: One of Israel’s natural gas wells has gone online early. A US Israeli consortium began supplying Israel with natural gas from its offshore Pinnacles well on Wednesday … Continue reading →

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Egypt cancels gas contract with Israel – politics or economics?

Posted on 24 April 2012 by

Last week Egypt cancelled it’s long-standing gas-exporting deal to Israel, triggering a diplomatic and political crisis with grave economic implications for Israel (and possibly for Egypt too).  The cancellation is not a total surprise seeing as the gas pipeline has … Continue reading →

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The enemy of my enemy, and with friends like these…

Posted on 1 April 2012 by

Recently there have been several strange and conflicting, not to mention confusing, items of interest regarding Israel, Turkey, the US, and Iran with its nuclear program. We first learned a few days ago that Azerbaijan had granted access to Israel … Continue reading →

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Turkey’s natural gas supply fails temporarily; Israel discovers more offshore gas fields

Posted on 8 February 2012 by

Two parallel news items appeared in the last couple of days, and it occurs to me that if only the current political constellation in the Middle East were somewhat different, Israel could come to the rescue of Turkey. Today’s Zaman … Continue reading →

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