Tamar Gas Field

Summary Information

• Operator: Chevron
• Country: Israel
• Location: Levantine Basin, eastern Mediterranean
• Production start: 2013
• Partners: Noble, Delek
• Type: Gas
• Estimated Reserves: 8.4 trillion cubic feet of gas
• Production Volume:

Description

• The Tamar platform is located in approximately 800 feet of water and designed to process 1.2 billion standard cubic feet of gas per day.
• The Tamar field is estimated to contain 8.4 trillion cubic feet of gas and produces through several subsea wells connected to the platform by 150 km long flow lines. * The single-lift topsides facility has four deck levels and weighs nearly 10,000 tons when completed.
• The Tamar expansion project will see the addition of a new pipeline in phase 1 and compression in phase 2

Contractors

• **Alliance Engineering:** Detailed engineering and design services for the Tamar Platform Project, including topsides facilities and deck structure
• **Aker Solutions:**
  • Supply of 240 kilometres of steel tube umbilicals
  • Mono ethylene glycol (MEG) reclamation unit
  • Engineering, manufacturing and delivery of a subsea controls distribution system, umbilical termination assemblies (UTA) and related equipment
• Tamar Expansion Project
  • Allseas: Installation of 150 kilometres of 20-inch pipeline from the Tamar field to the Tamar platform and a mix of small and large subsea structures
  • Corinth Pipeworks: supply approximately 155km of 20” longitudinally submerged arc welded steel pipes

History

• 2009 - Gas discovered in the Tamar field
• 2012 - Agreement with Dalia Power Energies Ltd. for the Sale of Natural Gas from the field
• 2013 - Natural Gas Begins to Flow from Tamar
• 2020 - Chevron acquires Noble Energy
• 2022 - FID for Tamar expansion project

Links

1. Noble Energy Announces Significant Natural Gas Discovery at Tamar Well Offshore Israel
2. Alliance Engineering awarded detailed engineering and design contract for Noble Energy's Tamar Platform topsides
3. Aker Solutions to supply subsea umbilicals to Noble Energy
4. Aker Solutions to supply MEG reclamation unit to Noble Energy
5. Aker Solutions wins another subsea contract with Noble Energy
6. Agreement with Dalia Power Energies Ltd. for the Sale of Natural Gas
7. Noble Energy Announces Execution of Gas Sales Agreement With Israel Electric Corporation
8. Natural Gas Began to Flow from Tamar
9. Chevron Announces Agreement to Acquire Noble Energy
10. Gas pipeline to meet growing demand for reliable energy in East Mediterranean
11. Chevron awards deep water Tamar Optimization Project to Corinth Pipeworks