Tamar Gas Field (Delek Drilling Video)
Israel’s Ministry of Energy ordered the reopening of the Tamar offshore natural gas field. Production at the site, which is near Gaza, was halted after the start of the Iron Swords war on October 7 due to concerns it could be a target for Hamas terror attacks.
The decision to resume production at the Tamar field is likely a sign that the IDF has taken over enough control over areas in the north of the Gaza Strip that the government of Israel no longer feels it is in danger of being attacked.
In December of 2022, Chevron, one of the world’s largest oil and energy companies, expanded the firm’s operation in Israel’s Tamar natural gas field. Chevron and its partners in spent $673 million to expand gas production there.
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According to Tamar Petroleum, the Tamar development system has been built in a way that produces redundancy and backup in the system, and stable production and flows over years. The Tamar field positioned high on the global rating, as it is a reserve of dry gas (some 99% methane) with high porosity and permeability as well as high connectivity between the sections of the reservoir. Furthermore, the development of the reservoir was executed in a manner that provides the Israeli market with a continuous supply with minimal malfunctions, and indeed, the reservoir operates with an availability of some 99.98%, at the highest level by all standards.
The Tamar Reservoir, located some 90 km west of Haifa, has an overall depth of about 5,000 meters below sea level in waters that are 1,700 meters deep. The Reservoir covers an area of 100 square kilometers, and its layers reach up to 300 meters in thickness.
The natural gas in the Tamar Reservoir is produced through six unique production wells, built in such a way as to allow production from the Reservoir of up to 1.1 BCF of natural gas daily.
A mere four years after the January 2009 discovery of the Tamar Reservoir, gas started to flow from it at the end of March 2013.
The partners in the Tamar Reservoir are Isramco Negev 2 (28.75%), Noble Energy (25%), Delek Drilling (22%), Tamar Petroleum (16.75%), Dor Gas (4%) and Everest (3.5%).
