Israel energy

The AI economy will be built by those who control power and land

As data centers become the backbone of the global economy, access to electricity and strategic infrastructure is emerging as the ultimate competitive advantage.

Navot Bar, CEO and co-founder of Keystone Infra
Firefighters attempt to extinguish a fire following a projectile impact on a refinery on Haifa on March 30.

War with Iran exposes Israel's critical energy vulnerabilities

: London-based Energean's drill ship begins drilling at the Karish natural gas field offshore Israel in the east Mediterranean May 9, 2022.

Karish gas field resumes production

Flames rise at the Bazan refinery in Haifa after it was hit by an Iranian missile, March 30, 2026.

Russia provided Iran with list of Israeli energy targets, Ukrainian intelligence finds - exclusive


Israel launches first hydrogen fuel station: Start of energy market revolution?

"We have no choice," Elbaz stressed. "The climate is changing. Temperatures are rising. We are running against the clock to improve things, so the next generation will not suffer."

 A man refuels a car at Hydrogen refuelling station during Saudi Aramco's media trip to demonstrate Hydrogen automotive technology at Techno Valley Science Park in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, June 27, 2021.

Bazan Group announces consolidated EBITDA of USD 238 million 

Bazan Group, the largest refinery and petrochemicals company in Israel, announced its financial results for the third quarter and first nine months of 2022.

 Moshe Kaplinsky, Chairman of the Bazan Group

Israel grants Energean permission to start production at Karish gas field

Energean has said its floating production storage and offloading vessel is due to start production at Karish in the third quarter but has not given a precise date.

  Karish gas field, located in Israel territory and disputed by Lebanon.

Solar systems sales surge in Israel amid electricity price concerns

According to data from the Enerpoint company, in the first half of 2022 there was a 12% increase in the installation of solar systems using photovoltaic technology.

 Photovoltaic array at the National Solar Energy Center, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, in the Negev Desert of Israel.

Leviathan natural gas company Ratio Energies reports record revenues in Q1 2022

2.7 billion cubic meters (BCM) of natural gas was sold from the Leviathan reservoir in Q1, of which 1.8 BCM was exported to Egypt and Jordan.

 Leviathan natural gas field.

School, research center for energy and sustainability studies launched by BIU

Bar-Ilan University’s new facilities are part of its initiative to invest hundreds of millions of shekels in research and environmental projects.

 Prof. Lior Elbaz, who is developing hydrogen-based technology that powers drones, Bar-Ilan Council of Trustees Chairman Shlomo Zohar, Minister of Energy Karine Elharrar, Bar-Ilan President Prof. Arie Zaban and CEO Zohar Yinon.

US seeks to weaken Russia's energy hold on Europe, Hochstein says

"Russia has one [economic] leverage: the energy sector. That is what it has been holding as a sword over the heads of several countries in Europe," said US special energy envoy Amos Hochstein.

 The logo of Gazprom company is seen on the facade of a business centre in Saint Petersburg, Russia March 31, 2022.

Israel achieves independence through energy supply - opinion

Israel can provide a large part of this quantity depending on the current capacity of the liquefying facilities in Egypt or the ability of the companies extracting the Israeli gas

 THE PRODUCTION platform of the Leviathan natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Haifa: The realization of the commercial potential of the field is in the hands of the companies.

The multi-faceted value of energy security - opinion

The writer is the CEO of Energean, an international hydrocarbon exploration and production company with a focus on natural gas.

 Energean's FPSO (Floating production storage and offloading)

Chevron CEO says Israel gas pipeline could supply Europe amid crisis

The EastMed pipeline, meant to transfer natural gas from Israeli waters to Europe via Greece and Cyprus, was announced in 2016.

The Leviathan gas platform pictured in the Mediterranean Sea.