Israel’s upstream has long been dominated by US major Chevron and its two key offshore gas fields, 23tcf Leviathan and 14tcf Tamar. The end of 2022 saw the start-up of a third field, London listed Greek firm Energean’s Karish (MEES, 28 October 2022). Production was bolstered by the February 2024 start-up of the adjacent Karish North satellite field (MEES, 1 March).
Production from the 2.6tcf fields is via tie-back to the Energean Power FPSO. But ramp up towards the vessel’s 780mn cfd capacity has not been without its issues, in part related to the Karish field’s high oil content, MEES understands. In particular continued delays to the installation of a second oil processing train which would take liquids capacity to 32,000 b/d has necessitated the throttling back of output from the ‘oiliest’ of the four production wells (MEES, 17 May). (CONTINUED - 882 WORDS)
