Leviathan Gas Field

Summary Information

• Operator: Chevron
• Country: Israel
• Location: Levantine basin
• Production start:
• Partners: Noble Energy - 39.66 %, Delek Drilling - 22.67%, Avner Oil Exploration - 22.67%, and Ratio Oil 15%
• Type: Gas
• Estimated Reserves: recoverable gross mean resources of 18 trillion cubic feet
• Production Volume:

Description

• The Leviathan Field is located in the Israeli EEZ, approximately 130 km off the shores of Haifa. Production is facilitated by 4 subsea wells that are connected, via a subsea manifold and two 120 km long pipelines, to an offshore platform, where all processing of gas takes place. From the platform the gas is piped to shore into the Israeli national grid.
• Gas is supplied to Jordan and Egypt as well as Israel

Contractors

• **CIT:** Project management and conceptual engineering
• **Aker Solutions:** Hydrate Inhibition FEED

History

• 2010 - Noble Energy Announces Significant Discovery at Leviathan
• 2013 - Noble Energy Announces Increase In Leviathan Resource Estimate to 18 trillion cubic feet
• 2017 - Final investment decision
• 2019 - First gas produced
• 2020 - Chevron acquires Noble Energy

Geology

• Noble encountered 220 feet (67 meters) of net natural gas pay in several subsalt Miocene intervals.

Links

1. Aker Solutions Hydrate Inhibition References
2. Noble Energy Announces Successful Leviathan Appraisal Results and Increases Resource Size
3. Noble Energy Provides Update On Leviathan Deep
4. Noble Energy Announces Significant Discovery at Leviathan Offshore Israel
5. Noble Energy Announces Increase In Leviathan Resource Estimate
6. Chevron Announces Agreement to Acquire Noble Energy
7. Commencement of the piping of natural gas from the Leviathan reservoir