LNG

The first US liquefied natural gas cargo is scheduled to be delivered to Israel around May 25 at the Hadera floating import facility offshore the city of Haifa to boost peak supplies for power generation.

The Tamar natural gas field in the Eastern Mediterranean, the region’s current main competitor to LNG and owned and operated by Noble Energy of the US and Delek Group of Israel, has been forced to shut down production because of a pipeline fault.

Noble Energy of US, the main production company in the East Mediterranean, said it began exporting natural gas from Israel for the first time to industrial customers in Jordan as part of a ramp-up of pipeline supplies in the region that may displace LNG shipments.