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中国石化新闻网讯 据路透社10月19日耶路撒冷报道，以色列海上塔马尔大气田的合作伙伴们19日在耶里撒冷表示，他们时下正在与埃及谈判出售天然气一事。塔马尔集团希望在未来3年内通过一条被搁置的老管道向埃及的私人客户至少出售50亿立方米天然气。

以色列塔马尔集团将通过东地中海天然气公司（EMG）近十年前建造的一条水下管道向埃及供应天然气。EMG曾监管一项现在已不存在的埃及??以色列天然气协议，

埃及在一份为期20年的协议中曾一直在向以色列出售天然气。但是，这笔交易在2012年作废，原因是这条管道受到了埃及西奈半岛武装分子连续数个月的袭击，这条管道自那以后就再没有运送天然气，EMG为此起诉埃及政府要求赔偿。

最近的海上发现??估计拥有2800亿立方米天然气储量的塔马尔大气田以及储量超过塔马尔大气田两倍的列维坦大气田??把此前依赖进口的以色列变成了一个潜在能源出口国，而埃及一直缓慢开发其自己庞大的天然气资源致使埃及如今面临能源危机。

以美国诺布尔能源公司和以色列Delek集团为首的塔马尔财团在一份声明中说，他们日前与代表埃及非政府、工业和商业消费者的Dolphinus控股公司签署了一项合作意向书来谈判天然气出口一事。

任何交易将需要得到以色列政府、埃及政府以及来自EMG的各种批准。

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原文如下：

Israel's Tamar group looks to sell gas to Egypt via EMG pipeline

JERUSALEM, Oct 19 (Reuters) - The partners in Israel's offshore Tamar gas field said on Sunday they are negotiating the sale of at least 5 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas over three years to private customers in Egypt via an old pipeline.

The supplies would pass through an underwater pipeline constructed nearly a decade ago by East Mediterranean Gas (EMG), the company that oversaw a now-defunct Egyptian-Israeli natural gas deal.

Egypt had been selling gas to Israel in a 20-year agreement, but the deal collapsed in 2012 after months of attacks on the pipeline by militants in Egypt's Sinai peninsula. It has since been out of commission and EMG is suing the government of Egypt for damages.

Recent offshore discoveries such as Tamar, with an estimated 280 bcm of gas, and Leviathan, which is more than twice as big, have turned previously import-dependent Israel into a potential energy exporter. Egypt has been slow in developing its own sizable gas resources and now faces an energy crisis.

The Tamar consortium, led by Texas-based Noble Energy and Israel's Delek Group, said in a statement they signed a letter of intent to negotiate with Dolphinus Holdings, a firm that represents non-governmental, industrial and commercial consumers in Egypt.

Any deal would be subject to various approvals in Israel, Egypt and from EMG.