Israel has extended the state of emergency within its natural gas market until midnight on 15 April, the Prime Minister’s office announced on 26 March. Emergency measures were put in place on 28 February which included the precautionary shutdown of the Chevron-operated Leviathan and Energean’s Karish, as Israel and the US launched their attack on Iran (MEES, 6 March).
Chevron’s Tamar field remains online, supplying the domestic Israeli market, with modest surplus volumes heading to Egypt and Jordan. The ministry has come under mounting pressure to order the resumption of production from Leviathan and Karish from Cairo and Amman as gas shortages there precipiated energy saving measures (MEES, 27 March). (CONTINUED - 108 WORDS)