Le gouvernement israélien s'est prononcé dimanche pour l'achat de gaz naturel auprès de l'opérateur britannique British Gas, concessionnaire d'un gisement palestinien, selon une source officielle.
Ce changement de politique israélienne est très révélateur, estime le journal « Israël Valley » : les américains ont demandé aux israéliens de calmer le jeu et de montrer des signes de bonne volonté.
"Le gouvernement a décidé dimanche de coopérer avec British Gas", a indiqué à l'AFP sans autre précision le bureau du Premier ministre Ehud Olmert. « Si un contrat en ce sens est finalisé, il pourra rapporter à l'Autorité palestinienne des dividendes se montant à des dizaines de millions de dollars par an", a de son côté estimé la radio de l'armée israélienne. Elle a ajouté que plusieurs ministres, notamment Avigdor Lieberman (Affaires stratégiques), du parti d'extrême droite Israël Beiténou, ont voté contre ce projet présenté par M. Olmert.
Un gisement de gaz de 40 milliards de m3 a été découvert en 1999-2000 au large du littoral de la bande de Gaza, et d'âpres négociations ont depuis lors été menées en vue de sa distribution en Israël. British gas, géant mondial, a obtenu une concession de 20 ans pour les champs de "Gaza Maritime", en partenariat avec Consolidated Contractors company (CCC), société des puissantes familles palestiniennes Khoury-Sabbagh.
Un autre gisement de gaz, dont les réserves sont estimées à 22 milliards de m3, a été découvert en 2000 au large du littoral méditerranéen d'Israël à la hauteur d'Ashkelon, au sud de Tel-Aviv.
Pour des raisons politiques, économiques et géostratégiques, Israël cherche à diversifier ses sources d'approvisionnements en gaz naturel, notamment auprès de la société russe Gazprom, leader mondial dans son domaine.
Si l’on en croit l’agence de presse russe ITAR-Tass qui a révélé l’affaire, Israël envisagerait d’acheter 2 milliards de m3 de gaz naturel russe par an. Ce gaz serait livré par un pipeline qui traverserait la Turquie. Cette déclaration aurait été prononcée par le ministre israélien des Infrastructures nationales Binyamin Ben-Eliezer.
Le ministre, qui s’est entretenu à Moscou avec le responsable de l’entreprise Gazprom aurait également ajouté qu’Israël pourrait importer sur le long terme plus de 5 milliards de mètre-cubes de gaz naturel russe par an.
Ankara a annoncé en janvier dernier qu’elle s’était mise d’accord avec Moscou pour étendre le pipeline qui transporte actuellement du gaz vers la Turquie afin de fournir aussi du gaz à Israël. Michael Brodsky, un porte-parole de l’ambassade israélienne à Moscou, a rapporté au quotidien Ynet qu'un minium de cinq ans serait nécessaire pour accomplir cette prolongation du gazoduc et débuter les livraisons de gaz.
Le gouvernement azerbaïdjanais est disposé à fournir du gaz à Israël par le pipeline Tbilissi-Baku-Erzurum a-t-il récemment annoncé, invitant le gouvernement israëlien à entamer des négociations.
Source : AFP, Israel Valley
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Cabinet approves gas sales from Gaza
Government approves Olmert's proposal to cooperate with British Gas and its Palestinian partner, CCC
Tanny Goldstein
The government approved Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's proposal to buy natural gas from the Palestinian Authority, Sunday, as part of a move to increase cooperation with foreign countries that pump natural gas from along Gaza's sea line.
The deal would provide tens of millions of dollars in revenue to the Palestinian Authority.
The decision was supported by 21 cabinet members. Three ministers – Avigdor Lieberman (Israeli Beiteinu), Ze'ev Boim (Kadima) and Yitzhak Aharonovich (Israel Beiteinu) –opposed.
The approval validates recent negotiations of the Israeli government with British Gas and its partner company CCC, which is controlled by the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian and Lebanese businessmen.
In 2003, then prime minister Ariel Sharon cancelled similar negotiations out of fear that natural gas revenues would end up in the hands of terrorists. Towards the end of his tenure, he appeared to change his stance and began discreet negotiations.
Six months ago, the government published a memo calling on private Israeli entrepreneurs to renew negotiations with British Gas.
Nonetheless, sources in the energy sector said "the government remembered British Gas too late, after using ridiculous excuses to avoid it for years. The British are merely speaking with the Israeli government out of politeness."
British Gas responded that they were pleased with the developments and expected to build contacts with the Israeli government.
Controversial secret partners
Businessman Yossi Meiman, whose energy company – Merhav – provides Israel with natural resources from Egypt via the joint EMG company, was angered by the government's decision.
"I am in favor of competition among suppliers of natural gas, but I don't understand the preference for British Gas over other suppliers," he told Ynet. "I offered to supply natural gas at a much cheaper price than British Gas, but was ignored.
"In the past, we negotiated on collaboration with British Gas but decided against it, after it turned out that they had secret partners, including Muhammad Rashid (Yassir Arafat's accountant) and Martin Schlaf," he added.
"This is why we decided not to go through with the deal," Meiman explained. "It was clear even then that a significant percentage of funds would go to the secret partners.
"Even if the Israeli government succeeds in overcoming Hamas' resistance to supervision of their use of direct natural gas revenues, who will supervise the funds that get to Hamas indirectly, via the secret partners?" Meiman asked.
British Gas denied Meiman's claims regarding the secret partners, saying that Rashid was never a direct or indirect business partner in the company.
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