DW – Israel has begun receiving gas from a large off-shore reservoir, four years after drilling initially started. The project is designed to reduce the country’s energy dependence and boost the economy. Natural gas from the Tamar field off Israel’s Mediterranean shores began flowing on Saturday at 4 p.m. local time (1400 GMT), the Israeli Energy and Water Ministry said. “Today we are really in a new era,” Energy Minister Silvan Shalom said. The Tamar field, discovered in 2009, is located 90 kilometers (56 miles) off Israel’s northern coast and has an estimated 10 trillion cubic feet of gas – enough to meet the country’s gas needs for decades. Read article
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