Houston-based engineer Wood Group Mustang has started detailed planning to build Israel’s huge Leviathan offshore gas field, announcing that Kiewit Offshore Services will construct its platform at an estimated cost of $500 to $700 million.

Kiewit还为邻近的Tamar Field建立了平台，该国目前是该国唯一的天然气供应商。

The Leviathan partners—US-based Noble Energy Inc., and Israel’s Delek Group and Ratio Oil Exploration—have set a fourth quarter 2019 target for the beginning of production at the field located 100 kilometers west of Haifa, along Israel’s northern Mediterranean coast.

在上个月的最终投资决定开发以色列最大的海上天然气场之后，该项目的第一阶段的最后一步是该项目的第一阶段，估计储量为500至6.21亿立方米。这是与与主要国际银行建立融资协议以弥补发展成本的同时。

“The slowdown in the global oil industry has led to a substantial reduction in the cost of developing Leviathan,” said Chen Herzog, energy expert and chief economist at BDO Consulting in Tel Aviv. He estimated the savings at 30% over the cost of the Tamar field, which was developed during a peak in oil and gas prices as well as drilling activity. The cost of the Tamar platform was $1 billion.

The 30,000-ton fixed platform for the Leviathan field is initially being designed to process 12 bcm/year and expandable to 21 bcm/year. The platform will be installed at a water depth of 86 meters. The platform itself will be located 10 kilometers from the shore inside Israeli territorial waters. Four production wells are to be linked to the offshore production and treatment platform and from there by undersea pipeline to two entry points on Israel’s Mediterranean coast.

Israel’s Energy and Water Ministry announced earlier this month that the government would finance a second pipeline at a cost of $100 million that would be earmarked for use by the developers of future offshore gas fields. First-stage production will serve the domestic market as well as Jordan and Egyptian customers, through the existing Pan-Arab pipeline.

The Leviathan partners are in discussions for larger export deals that would involve multi-billion dollar investments in marine pipelines to Turkey, Egypt and to Greece and Italy via Cyprus in order to justify investing in a second stage.

以色列和土耳其官员已经在利维坦田（Leviathan Field）到土耳其南部的一条管道上举行了几轮会谈。以色列能源消息人士称，与埃及有关通过管道将天然气运送到壳牌和西班牙在Ikdu和Damietta的联合Fenosa拥有的两家闲置液化天然气植物的计划继续进行谈判，并从那里到欧洲。

最雄心勃勃的管道项目是拟议中的海底线，从利维坦到意大利，塞浦路斯和希腊在欧洲市场上。IGI-Poseidon针对新利luck欧洲委员会进行的一项可行性研究估计其成本为57亿美元。