While the news this week has largely focused on the $35bn Israel-Egypt gas deal (see p4), the partners at Israel’s 22.3tcf Leviathan, operated by US major Chevron (39.66%) have quietly begun supplying industrial users on Jordan’s Dead Sea with modest volumes.
Understandably both the Israelis and the Jordanians have kept the deal under wraps with the optics of increasing imports from Israel likely not sitting well with Jordan’s large Palestinian population amidst the current assault on Gaza. (CONTINUED - 194 WORDS)