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Alliance Engineering awarded detailed engineering and design contract for Noble Energy's Tamar Platform topsides
Wood Group's Alliance Engineering has been awarded a contract to provide detailed engineering and design services for the Tamar Platform Project, including topsides facilities and deck structure, to be located offshore Israel. The Tamar natural gas field will be operated by Noble Energy and is located offshore Israel in the eastern Mediterranean Sea's Levantine Basin.

Noble Energy Provides Update of Leviathan Deep
Noble Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NBL) announced today that it has suspended drilling operations at the Leviathan #1 location, which was testing deeper potential in the well, offshore Israel. The Company identified wear on the wellbore casing, requiring additional material and equipment necessary to complete the drilling of the well. Noble Energy is working to secure the needed items, which are not available in Israel.

Noble Energy Announces Significant Discovery at Leviathan Offshore Israel
Noble Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NBL) announced today a significant natural gas discovery at the Leviathan exploration prospect offshore Israel. Drilled in the Rachel license, the well encountered a minimum of 220 feet (67 meters) of net natural gas pay in several subsalt Miocene intervals. Apparent reservoir quality is very good, and the intervals discovered are geologically similar to those intersected at Tamar.

Noble Energy Announces Operational Update at Leviathan Offshore Israel
Noble Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NBL) provided today an operational update for the Leviathan exploration prospect offshore Israel. The well has penetrated the first interval in the primary objective. Based on logs taken while drilling, it is apparent that natural gas has been encountered in this interval. Noble Energy and its partners are continuing to drill through the primary objective, after which a full well evaluation will be conducted. Results from these operations are expected in mid-December.

Accident at Haifa Refinery
Oil Refineries Ltd. (TASE: ORL.TA) (hereinafter “the Company,” “ORL”), Israel’s largest integrated refining and petrochemical group announced today that on November 23, 2010, during work conducted in one of the Company's facilities, which are under periodic maintenance, a work accident occurred in which a number of workers were harmed by gas inhalation. Three of them died as a result.