In addition, locals in the Golan Heights have opposed the project. However, the aforementioned environmental groups, as well as international groups such as Greenpeace, blocked all drilling in the area until a December 2014 ruling overturned the stop-work order (Alster, 2015).
#WILL THE GOLAN NEED TO BE FRACKED TO RECOVER OIL LICENSE#
Originally, a license to drill inside approximately 98,000 acres of the Golan was granted. According to Ynet News, the Israel Union for Environmental Defense and the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, as well as several state agencies, have opposed the operation on the grounds that damage could be caused to the surrounding environment (Ben-David, 2015).
Although only in the early stages of exploration and discovery, this development deserves a closer look.Ī major obstacle to any future drilling in the Golan will surely come from opposition via the local environmental bloc. However, this find occurs in a strategically dangerous and contentious location, raising serious security concerns, while the scenic and agricultural environment of the Golan Heights raises opposition from residents that drilling will cause undue harm and pollution, as well as a depletion of precious water resources. As a result, Afek has requested to drill 10 more wells, and while the oil find has become reality, the extraction and production, let alone distribution, have yet to be fully studied (Blackburn, 2015). Afek estimates that this reservoir holds the potential to produce billions of barrels for a country that consumes 270,000 barrels of oil per day, this find could be a major boon (Blackburn, 2015). The layer in which the reservoir was found measures 350 meters in thickness, which is much larger than the world average strata of 20-30 meters. What started out with the discoveries of natural gas fields equaling 22 trillion cubic feet (tcf) in the Leviathan, Tamar, and Dalit fields located in the Eastern Mediterranean, has now proceeded to a wholly new narrative: the discovery of oil.Īfek Oil & Gas, a subsidiary of American company Genie Energy, believes it has discovered oil reserves in the Golan Heights. Yet this aphorism continues to be challenged, much to Israel’s benefit. There is a common saying amongst Israeli Jews in reference to Israel’s historical dependence on foreign fossil fuels: Moses took a wrong turn while traveling to the Holy Land. The Israeli side of Golan Heights, overlooking Quneitra, Syria.
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