Israeli international gas companies do not attract
Every now and then, Israel announces new discoveries in the field of gas in the presentation of the Mediterranean, especially in the northern region. More recently, announced a high likelihood of the presence of a relatively large gas field is like «Sunrise» Egyptian field not far from Netanya beach. There are those who believe that Israel made political concessions to Turkey in the hope that you can invest in the Israeli gas sector. But the newspaper «New York Times» US recently confirmed that Israel suffers from serious difficulties in the offshore gas sector due to the reluctance of the international energy companies to cooperate with them for fear of a collision with the Arab boycott laws.
Israel's Ministry of Energy has offered a few days ago on foreign exploration companies geological information that there are prospects for another large gas field on the beach away 50 kilometers west of Netanya Beach. He said that the ministry's experts in this field is similar to the geological structure «Sunrise» Egyptian field, which was discovered last year, the company «Eni» Italian combination. Israel has Osmt this reservoir as «Leona», which is located within the exploration labeled «Mira license.» The search proved Sasmologi Old presence of 40 billion cubic meters of gas only acknowledges the precedence of 58 percent. But the exploration of this reservoir failed four years ago, was re-licensing of the state, which he today to invest, but the most important with data. The Israel's offer to grant new exploration licenses in the sea opened the door for the licenses, which was closed four years ago.
In order to facilitate investments, traveled days prior to the overseas delegation from the Israeli Ministry of energy experts to convince international companies to participate in tenders to obtain new licenses to explore for oil and gas in Israel's economic waters, but the Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz and the director general of the ministry Shaul Meridor also traveled to participate in attempts to persuade. It is clear that the recent data on the chances of having a large field based on a poll conducted for the Israeli Ministry of Energy reported that there is great potential for the presence of additional gas reservoirs in the Mediterranean basin by about 2200 billion cubic meters, and acknowledges the precedence of 50 percent.
Israeli energy expert explains that he had already published such data in the past, but many had abused them with suspicion. An estimate that the publication of these data again aims to arouse the interest of the global energy sector Israeli gas fields, especially in this period in which the Israeli economy suffers from crises. Most of the royal Israeli companies have failed to exploration concessions in attracting major companies to drill in its privileges, and this is what led to multiple failures.
Because of this, a major Israel consulting firms advised to hire my company RPS Services and IHS to view these Israeli goods, which has recently been in both London and Singapore, and is expected to be the weight of persuasion moves soon to Texas American to identify companies there are Israeli fields. In attempts that took place in London afternoon interest from two Italian companies, «Edison» and «Eni» ENI and Almtlten on exploration operations in Israel because of their work in Egypt. The effort is aimed in Singapore to persuade Asian companies and Australian interest in Israeli fields.
It is known that Israel deliberately earlier this month to restore the economic waters of Israel was divided into 60 Luca, the 24 of them on the Israeli and foreign companies. The area of each block of the 400 square kilometers and is away from the beach more than seven kilometers.
It is possible according to the newspaper «New York Times» Israel not to attract the investment needed to develop the gas production sector for reasons including able to leading global oil companies that have extensive activities in parts of the Arab world may avoid investing in Israel for fear of the province. He wrote newspaper editor in the field of energy, Stanley Reed, the «attract investors may pose a challenge to Israel. Major oil companies are, by falling incomes have become more discretionary in the selection of projects ready for funding, which operate them in the Arab countries may show wary of investing in Israel ».
The economic analyst Martin Murphy told the newspaper believed that «interested in what will emerge, but it is doubtful if it will come from the major oil companies, along with political considerations».
Also, another factor that may affect the investment in Israel negatively, is the collapse of the price of natural gas in recent years. Reid wrote that «there is a general cooler in this area, on the back of falling gas price by more than 50 percent in Europe in the last four years».
He added that «despite the fact that medium-sized businesses may be willing to invest in Israel, but the cost of more than $ 100 million for any exploration in deep water, have deterred risk