*Israel produced 2.50bn cfd of gas for Q2, down fractionally on Q1 but still the third highest figure on record behind 2.66bn cfd for 3Q 2023 (see chart 1). That quarter’s record came as output from the Karish field ramped up to top 500mn cfd for the first time having started up at the end of 2022. And Q2’s near-record overall output figure came as Karish hit a new record of 530mn cfd.