Test drilling at Israel’s Aphrodite-2 exploration well in the offshore Ishai field 100 miles west of Haifa has encountered a gas layer of 49 feet. By late February they will confirm if estimates of 3.7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas are accurate.
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