'This is a great revolution': Giant Barges Carrying Leviathan Natural Gas Platform Set Out from Texas to Israel

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz : Jul 15, 2019
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"Completion of the Leviathan gas platform and the pumping of gas from this field later in the year is a critical component of the strategic, energy, economic and diplomatic strength of the State of Israel. A gas pipeline will run from here and will link us to the gas economy of Europe. It will reach our Arab neighbors." -PM Benjamin Netanyahu

[BreakingIsraelNews.com] The first of four giant barges carrying sections of the Leviathan natural gas platform set out on a 7,000-mile voyage from Texas and the Gulf of Mexico to the Mediterranean Sea last week. The platform, comprised of five operational units, will be erected in 280 feet of water 7 miles off the coast of Israel and will rise 155 feet above sea level. When fully assembled in September, the platform topside decks will be 335 feet long, 260 feet wide, and weigh 38,000 tons, enabling the platform to drill three miles into the seabed. (Image: View of the Israeli Leviathan gas field gas processing rig near the Israeli city of Caesarea, on January 31, 2019/Credit: Marc Israel Sellem/POOL/via BIN)

Discovered in 2010, Leviathan contains about two-thirds of all the gas resources discovered off the coast of Israel so far and is one of the world's largest deepwater gas discoveries in the first decade of the 21st century... Funded by the private sector, a Texas-based Noble Energy partnered with Israeli Delek Drilling have invested $3.75 billion to... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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