Project Profile

        Value: US$2,800 million  
Location: Levantine basin of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, Israel
Water Depth: 1,676m  
Upstream Gas Reserves: 8,400 billion ft³  
Start-up Month and Year: Q4 2012

The Tamar field development is in progress, with two appraisal wells drilled. According to estimates the field has reserves of about 6.3 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of gas. First production from Tamar is expected in 2012. The project was approved in August 2010. The Tamar field is located in the Levantine basin of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. The prospect falls under the Matan licence, which Noble Energy has operated since July 2006.

The Matan deepwater block covers 318km² while the Tamar structure is spread over 250km². The first appraisal well that discovered Tamar's natural gas reservoirs is 90km west of the port of Haifa on the Israeli coast. The presence of natural gas in the Tamar field was discovered in January 2009. The discovery was made by the first appraisal well Tamar-1.

A total of three reservoirs were found by the appraisal well. Tamar-1 is located at a water depth of about 5,500ft. The well was drilled to a total depth of 16,076ft. The structure that the well tested is a lower-Miocene prospect. Pre-drill estimates at Tamar were 3.1tcf of natural gas. Following flow testing of the first appraisal well in February 2009, the estimates were raised to 5tcf, then subsequently increased to 6.3tcf following the drilling of second appraisal well Tamar-2. Further assessment of the discovery is being carried out by an independent consulting firm to confirm the resources at the field.


Operators:

Noble Energy: Operator and 25% interest

Isramco Inc: 28.75% interest

Delek Drilling: 22% interest

Tamar Petroleum: 16.75% interest

Dor Gas Exploration: 4% interest

Everest Infrastructures - Limited Partnership: 3.5% interest


Contractors:

Atwood Oceanics: Atwood Hunter rig drilling contractor for two appraisal wells
- contract for the ultra-deepwater drillship Atwood Advantage. (October, 2016) 

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering: Develop the field for 2016 liquefied natural gas production 

Delmar Systems: Install five subsea trees for Noble Energy

Transocean: Sedco Express - Drilling contractor

Pride International (Taken Over by Ensco): Pride North America - Drilling contractor

Emas Offshore Pte Ltd.: Installation of umbilicals

IntecSea: Field plan development

DOF Subsea: Hydrographic, geophysical surveying and shallow geotechnical investigation

Aker Solutions: Subsea controls distribution system, UTA and subsea umbilicals

EDG Inc.: EPC - onshore gas processing plant

Kiewit: EPC - Construction of platform

Technip: Flowline installation work

Expro: Well testing and subsea services


Sub-contractor:

KBR: Execute pre-FEED study 

Hoegh LNG: Front-end engineering design for LNG floating production and storage and offloading vessel for Daewoo

Off-take companies: 

Dalia Power Energies

Clal Industries

Gazprom

Levant LNG Marketing Corporation