据天然气加工网7月25日消息称，以色列能源部长施泰尼茨告诉路透社，以色列将在四个月内开始向埃及出口天然气。

这些天然气的流入将确保以色列的Delek钻井公司与总部位于德克萨斯州的合作伙伴Noble能源公司与埃及合作伙伴签署一项价值150亿美元的出口协议，以色列官员称这是自1979年两国实现和平以来达成的最重要的协议。

埃及希望利用其战略位置和发达的基础设施，成为一个重要的国际天然气贸易和分销中心，这对于一个在2016年还在每年花费约30亿美元进口液化天然气的国家而言可能是一个显着的转变。

去年早些时候签署的协议将把以色列近海油田Tamar和Leviathan的天然气引入埃及的天然气网。

Delek、Noble和埃及东气公司已同意收购东地中海天然气公司的管道以运输天然气供应。

施泰尼茨在开罗一个地区天然气论坛的间隙接受采访时表示，施泰尼茨在开罗一个地区天然气论坛的间隙接受采访时表示，购买以色列阿什克伦和埃及阿里什之间EMG管道股权的交易几乎已结束，将在“未来几周”内完成。

曹海斌 摘译自 天然气加工网

原文如下：

Israel to begin gas exports to Egypt within four months

Israel will begin natural gas exports to Egypt within four months, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz told Reuters.

The flow will secure the start of a $15 billion export agreement between Israel’s Delek Drilling and Texas-based partner Noble Energy with an Egyptian counterpart in what Israeli officials called the most significant deal to emerge since the neighbors made peace in 1979.

Egypt hopes to leverage its strategic location and well-developed infrastructure to become a key international trading and distribution center for gas, a potentially remarkable turnaround for a country that spent about $3 billion on annual liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports as recently as 2016.

The deal signed early last year will bring natural gas from Israeli offshore fields Tamar and Leviathan into the Egyptian gas grid.

Delek, Noble and Egyptian East Gas have agreed to buy into the East Mediterranean Gas Company’s pipeline to transport the gas supplies.

In an interview on the sidelines of a regional gas forum in Cairo, Steinitz said the deal to buy stakes in the EMG pipeline between Ashkelon in Israel and El-Arish in Egypt was almost closed and would be completed in “the next few weeks”.