MOSES FINALLY VINDICATED BY ISRAELI OIL

Yes, Moses was right. Israel has been the land of milk and honey, and now it abounds in energy.

MOSES FINALLY VINDICATED BY ISRAELI OIL
by MICHAEL CURTIS



Ever since Moses took the Israelites out of Egypt critics have grumbled he took the wrong road by going through Sinai on the way to the Promised Land and thus missing the petrochemicals and oil fields in the area. Since its establishment, Israel has drilled more than 400 wells in unsuccessful efforts hoping to find oil.

Yes, Moses was right. Israel has been the land of milk and honey, and now it abounds in energy.

Now we have extraordinary announcements of recent findings starting with the discovery, 50 miles off the Israeli coast, of natural gas in 2009 that will make Israel one of the world’s energy powers. Moses was right and an apology is due to him.

In mid March 2013 the first major Israeli gas field, Tamar, discovered in 2009, began production with the first deliveries to Israel. A remarkable story is rapidly unfolding with new hydrocarbon developments in the Middle East as Israel becomes an important producer of energy. Tamar, with its currently estimated capacity of 8.5 trillion cubic feet, will be sufficient to supply the domestic market with gas for decades and will soon be exporting part of its production.

Tamar is the first of a number of other fields in the eastern Mediterranean that will make Israel and Cyprus major players in the energy field. A second even bigger Israeli field, named Leviathan, discovered in 2011, has an estimated capacity of 18 trillion cubic feet, and may come on line before the expected 2016 date. Surveys suggest that the combined total of Tamar and Leviathan is only one fifth of the amount in the Levantine Basin, much of which is within Israeli jurisdiction.

The Aphrodite reservoir off Greek Cyprus, with a capacity of 198 billion cubic meters, is expected to flow in three of four years. It is being drilled by some of the same energy companies involved in the Israeli fields. By the end of this decade, the Cypriot liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility should be producing enough for export since it needs only one billion cubic feet a year for its own use.

In all, the eastern Mediterranean is estimated to hold more than 60 trillion cubic feet of gas. More discoveries are anticipated at Tamar, and exploration is taking place at the Karish-1 area which may contain up to 2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. The Israeli energy companies Delek and Avner have signed contacts for a 30 percent stake in exploration rights off the south coast of Cyprus. In view of the political uncertainty in the area foreign investors were at first reluctant to get involved. That has now changed. France’s Total is exploring the area off southern Cyprus, and Australia is buying a stake in Leviathan. Some Arab and Muslim states, including Jordan, south Sudan, and Azerbaijan, are openly or covertly negotiating with Israel regarding energy. Jordan, which previously had obtained 80 percent of its natural gas from Egypt, will now get it from Israel. Greece has proposed it become the European distribution center for eastern Mediterranean gas.

Russia has been acutely aware of these developments. In July 2012 President Vladimir Putin visited Israel, largely to discuss the gas fields. The Russian Gazprom has signed a deal with Israel on the future distribution of the large Israel gas resources, and plans to build a floating facility off Cyprus to convert the product to LNG. This is particularly enticing for Russia because of problems caused by the war in Syria. Gazprom was to manage the gas pipeline, agreed to in July 2011 by Iran, Iraq, and Syria, which would run from Iran to Lebanon and across the Mediterranean to Europe. Political differences concerning the regime of Bashar al-Assad now makes this improbable.

Western Europe and the United States can anticipate that the power of
OPEC will be broken, not only by these natural-gas fields, but also by the prospects of a major oil shale or “kerogen” facility, different from shale oil, in Israel discovered in 2009. This is the Shfela Basin, southeast of Jerusalem, which is said to contain 250 billion barrels of pre-oil hydrocarbons contained in cylinders of rock. However, though Rupert Murdoch and Jacob Rothschild are investing in it, it is not clear at the moment if oil can be produced there on a commercial scale.

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Call me crazy but wasn't this in a Tom Clancy book from the 80's. Not the fact, but the hypothetical 'theory' and the fact inciting war in the gulf region.

FYI Tom is often sighted on the golf course on the bay at McDill, home of CENTCOM, as well as "hosting" in his row 1 on the dugout Tampa Bay Rays MLB tickets. Thought I'd throw that out there in case any of his longtime readers wonder where his 'ideas' come from. Truth is stranger than fiction as they say, maybe they're one in the same lol.

Hooray for Israel ! ! ! Lemme know if you figure out what Clancy book that is in too. I love thrillers. Now, I'll say this again, I believe that all this oil and gas that Israel is finding just may be another factor in setting the hook in the jaw of Gog of Ma-gog. If Gog of Ma-gog is, as many believe, Russia, then chew on this a while. Russia currently supplies Europe with mucho mucho gas and the Rooskies haven't been at all shy about turning the pipe-line valve off if Europe starts straying from under their thumb. Now a nice fat pipe-line coming from the Mediterranean area into Europe would really get those Rooskies good and fighting steamed. Solution would be to come and take a spoil. [where have we heard that?] I'll add that I'm aware that Rosh is also identified with Russia too and lots of folks think Ma-gog may mean modern Moscow. Any-who, something to ponder.

Agree 100% researcher. I posted the graphic of the proposed pipeline through Syria into the Southern European mainline running through Turkey. Interesting we're talking about a "hook" caused by a pipeline. Looking to hook into the line for an alternate supplier. Natural resources are literally what's feeding the Russian economy. (Materially speaking) Easy to metaphorically make the connection between their primary source of income & the mouth.

Hey quietobserver, would you mind re-posting that pipeline graphic on this thread? Thanks.

Looking for graphic. Here's an article. On another note, try the link & see if its blocked by your IP.



Qatar seeks gas pipeline to Turkey



Tamsin Carlisle and Thomas Seibert

Aug 26, 2009

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Qatar has proposed a gas pipeline from the Gulf to Turkey in a sign the emirate is considering a further expansion of exports from the world's biggest gasfield after it finishes an ambitious programme to more than double its capacity to produce liquefied natural gas (LNG).


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"We are eager to have a gas pipeline from Qatar to Turkey," Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the ruler of Qatar, said last week, following talks with the Turkish president Abdullah Gul and the prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the western Turkish resort town of Bodrum. "We discussed this matter in the framework of co-operation in the field of energy. In this regard, a working group will be set up that will come up with concrete results in the shortest possible time," he said, according to Turkey's Anatolia news agency.
Other reports in the Turkish press said the two states were exploring the possibility of Qatar supplying gas to the strategic Nabucco pipeline project, which would transport Central Asian and Middle Eastern gas to Europe, bypassing Russia. A Qatar-to-Turkey pipeline might hook up with Nabucco at its proposed starting point in eastern Turkey. Last month, Mr Erdogan and the prime ministers of four European countries signed a transit agreement for Nabucco, clearing the way for a final investment decision next year on the EU-backed project to reduce European dependence on Russian gas.
But Nabucco's future is far from assured, as its proponents have yet to reach agreements with gas suppliers. The project was originally conceived as a conduit for Central Asian gas, but recently its backers have been courting Middle Eastern producers as well. After his meeting with Sheikh Hamad last week, Mr Erdogan said Turkey wanted a "long-term and stable relationship" with Qatar in energy matters.
"For this aim, I think a gas pipeline between Turkey and Qatar would solve the issue once and for all," Mr Erdogan added, according to reports in several newspapers. The reports said two different routes for such a pipeline were possible. One would lead from Qatar through Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq to Turkey. The other would go through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and on to Turkey. It was not clear whether the second option would be connected to the Pan-Arab pipeline, carrying Egyptian gas through Jordan to Syria. That pipeline, which is due to be extended to Turkey, has also been proposed as a source of gas for Nabucco.
Based on production from the massive North Field in the Gulf, Qatar has established a commanding position as the world's leading LNG exporter. It is consolidating that through a construction programme aimed at increasing its annual LNG production capacity to 77 million tonnes by the end of next year, from 31 million tonnes last year. However, in 2005, the emirate placed a moratorium on plans for further development of the North Field in order to conduct a reservoir study. It recently extended the ban for two years to 2013.
But now there are signs that Qatar's government is looking beyond the moratorium to what it will do next with massive gas reserves that, at about 900 trillion cubic feet, are the world's third-largest. Last week, Saad al Kaabi, the director of oil and gas projects for the government-owned Qatar Petroleum, said Qatar could produce 23 billion cubic feet per day (cfd) of gas by 2014. That would be more than triple the emirate's output last year of 7.4 billion cfd, and 64 per cent more than its estimated 14 billion cfd of potential production once the LNG expansion programme is completed.

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Abdullah al Attiyah, the Qatari deputy prime minister and energy minister, has expressed concerns about flooding an already glutted international LNG market. Exporting gas by pipeline, which is cheaper than cooling it to liquid form for shipment in specialised tankers, might be an attractive alternative. But cross-border pipeline projects more often than not face substantial political hurdles, as Nabucco's proponents have discovered.

The main sticking point for a Qatar-to-Turkey pipeline could be a transit agreement with Saudi Arabia, which has a track record of obstructing regional pipeline projects and for decades has had a tense political relationship with Qatar. "There would have to be some evidence of political will from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the investment community to take this proposal seriously," said Douglas Caskie, the manager of the Abu Dhabi office of the consulting firm IPA Energy and Water Economics.
Saudi opposition derailed plans for a gas pipeline from Qatar to Kuwait. The kingdom also objected unsuccessfully to the construction of an undersea pipeline that now carries Qatari gas to the UAE and to a continuing UAE project to build an oil pipeline from Abu Dhabi to Fujairah. Turkey, which does not have major energy resources, is as mindful as EU countries of a dependence on Russian gas, and has been seeking a deal to import LNG from Qatar. It has also been trying to make the most of its geostrategic position between energy-rich regions like Russia, Central Asia and the Middle East, and the European market. Shortly after signing the inter-governmental agreement to set up Nabucco, Mr Erdogan signed a deal with Russia for the South Stream project to send Russian natural gas under the Black Sea to Bulgaria.
With a possible new pipeline project involving Qatar, "Turkey's hand in the energy game will be strengthened considerably", the Vatan newspaper commented. tcarlisle@thenational.ae Gorgon gas closer to market, b9


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The link worked for me, quietobserver. If you can remember the topic that you posted that graphic on you can snag a copy from there too.

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Neither one of his better selling offerings if I'm not mistaken.

Thank you. Love Red Storm Rising and that ain't it so it must be The Bear and the Dragon one.

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Thank you. Love Red Storm Rising and that ain't it so it must be The Bear and the Dragon one.

Good deal. 1/5 ain't bad for me lol. Its just a subplot that insinuates he's going to write another book about the topic (jewish natural gas reserves) but its enough to make you stop for a minute with scriptural knowledge, especially so now that current events are headed that way.

Ummmm, I don't think oil had anything to do with God telling Moses that the promised land was "a land flowing with milk and honey", but good for Israel if it is so.

"One of the best-recognized descriptions of the land of Israel is "a land flowing with milk and honey (Deut.

31:20)."

This description immediately conjures up a picture of a rich, fertile, and desirable land--but what do the words actually mean, and what environmental implications are alluded to in this expression?

We start with the interpretation of the Talmud, which interprets the words zavat halav u'dvash, (flowing with milk and honey) as "milk flows from the goats' (udders), and honey flows from the dates and the figs (Ketubot 111b)." For a pastoral people, this indeed must have been an inviting description of the land. The goats were a source of milk as well as meat, and were very prolific. In biblical times, goats were a reflection of wealth."

-- Canfei Nesharim

I do agree with you Unworthy1, God wasn't referencing oil at the time because it was useless. It is pretty ironic that the "Leviathan" natural gas fields are now property of Israel.