Navy orders radar to protect natural gas buoy
By YAAKOV KATZ 02/09/2012 00:14
Israel Electric Coporation ordered to bolster security around natural gas buoy slated to be built off Hadera coast.
Tamar holds 240 billion cu.m of gas. By Courtesy

Concerned about terrorist attacks, the Defense Ministry has ordered Israel Electric Corporation to bolster security around a natural gas buoy that is slated to be built off the coast of Hadera. The buoy is being installed to enable Israel to import natural gas in place of Egyptian gas, which has come to a near standstill since the revolution in Egypt last year.

According to the plan, ships will bring liquid natural gas by boat to a point some 10 kilometers off the coast. There, the gas tankers will connect to a “regasification ship,” which will turn the liquid gas back into gas and then send it through the buoy to the IEC power plant in Hadera. Israel has decided to begin liquid gas imports due to the depletion of the Yam Thetis reservoir and the disruptions to the Egyptian gas supply. The newly discovered Tamar reservoir is not expected to begin operations until late 2013.

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