Noble Energy has made a further large discovery of at least 1trillion cu.ft of gas offshore Israel with its Karish-1 well drilled on the Alon C licence.
The pre-drill estimate for Karish reserves was about 3TCF.
Karish-1 was drilled to a total depth of 4,800m and penetrated 56m of gas pay in high-quality Lower Miocene sands.
Karish is the seventh consecutive field discovered in the Levant Basin by Noble and its partners Delek and Avner Oil. The discovery raises the gross mean resource estimate for the Levant Basin to almost 38TCF.