Timestamp: 10 October 2022
UK-based energy company Energean announced Sunday that it had started conducting testing procedures by pumping gas to the disputed offshore Karish gas field, after receiving approval from Israel, The New Arab reported.
Israel says the Karish field in the eastern Mediterranean is located entirely within its exclusive economic zone, but Lebanon insists that part of the field falls within its own waters.
"Following approval received from Israeli Ministry of Energy to start certain testing procedures, the flow of gas from onshore to the FPSO has commenced," the company stated.
The move is part of reverse flow testing procedures, which is an "important step" in the commissioning process of its FPSO facility, according to the firm.
Tensions between Israel and Lebanon over Karish and their maritime boundaries have even drawn threats of war from the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement.
Last week, Israel rejected revisions to a draft agreement on the demarcation of the two countries' maritime borders at a critical phase of negotiations.
Energean has said its FPSO vessel is due to start production at Karish in the third quarter, and on Saturday Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz said Israel was "nearing production" at the site.
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Source: https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israel-approves-testing-procedures-in-disputed-karish-gas-field/
Comment: For some free entertainment, compare the descriptions of the American negotiators - who are pretending to be neutral third parties while doing everything the Israelis ask them to - with the more terse comments coming from the Lebanese side.
Behind all the flowery phrasing and optimistic language, the Israels seem to be welching on the deal and are getting ready to take what they want, while daring Hamas to do something about it and preparing to stage the usual posturing as victims.
We are watching this situation very closely. The Israelis are terrified that Hezbollah are going to fire a shore-to-ship missile and destroy the facility - but they don't care, because it's not an Israeli asset, some other country will take the hit and take umbrage - hopefully, declare the attack on their country's oil-drilling equipment, an act of war. After all, they have already joined Israel, as mercenaries in what is basically an act of calculated theft - on par with what the Israelis and the Americans are doing, stealing oil in Syria.
Basically, it's all about the oil. The Pentagon runs on diesel. All the militaries do.
Food for thought.