Energy shortage: The Zionists’ hidden crisis after Operation Storm of Al-Aqsa.
According to Al Jazeera, after the start of Operation Storm Al-Aqsa, on October 7, 2023, the projects and plans for the development of the Israeli gas field were halted. This is while the regime intended to significantly increase gas exports to Europe with the occupied fields in the Mediterranean Sea and take Russia’s place in this field.
The Israeli Cabinet’s Special Committee on Gas, headed by Yossi Dayan, Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Energy, adopted new policies in the regime’s energy sector amid the suspension of the Israeli regime’s projects to develop exploration and drilling in the Leviathan, Tamar, and Karish gas fields in the Mediterranean Sea due to the risk of them being targeted during the Gaza war by the Lebanese resistance and other pro-Gaza fronts.
During the negotiations of the Joint Committee of Ministers of the Israeli regime, it was determined that gas reserves in the fields near the coast of occupied Palestine will decrease within two decades. Accordingly, the committee recommended in a document submitted to the cabinet that it give the green light to the companies overseeing the Leviathan gas field to develop exploration in it.
The development of the Leviathan gas field is being carried out by the Israeli oil and gas exploration company Neo Med Energy, which owns approximately 45 percent of the field, and Chevron, an American multinational energy company operating in more than 180 countries around the world and owning approximately 40 percent of the Leviathan gas field.
Leviathan recently submitted an updated plan to the Israeli Ministry of Energy, which aims to increase gas production from the field by 2 billion cubic meters per year. The Leviathan field is located in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, 130 kilometers from the port of Haifa, and 12 billion cubic meters of gas is sold to Jordan annually. It is the largest gas field in the occupied Palestinian territories under Israeli control.
The second largest gas field in occupied Palestine that is in the hands of the Zionists is the Tamar field, which was discovered in 2009. The Karish field is also considered the third largest gas field in occupied Palestine, located in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.