“It’s like a birth,” Dana Kadmiel, environmental engineer for Israel Energy Initiatives, told The Jerusalem Post from the sidelines.

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Though not even yet in its official pilot phase, IEI’s shale extraction process aims to produce 40 billion barrels of oil in its currently licensed jurisdiction, which covers 16 percent of Israel’s oil shale stores, Loprazolam without prescription, according to Kadmiel.

To create oil from shale – which is dark sedimentary rock containing hydrocarbons – workers must drill as far as 400 meters down through an impermeable layer to reach the shale, Kadmiel explained.

Surrounding the production pipeline, the company must also drill a ring of heating wells, which gradually heat the rock to 300º C and thereby transform it into lightweight oil in situ.

In this pre-pilot phase, rather than using heaters, the company is removing pieces of shale for analysis in Ben- Gurion University laboratories, Buy Loprazolam Without Prescription. Comprar en línea Loprazolam, comprar Loprazolam baratos, “It’s a little bit lean, but the lower section is good,” Yoav Dror, a geologist for IEI, which in based in the capital, told the Post, as he wrapped up the sample.

“I’m pleased that something came out, Loprazolam interactions, but most of the time they recover 100% of the material,” he said, noting that 80 centimeters was only 50% of their aim.

The technology for drilling into Israel’s apparently ample shale stock only arrived here recently, through the expertise of Brooklynite Dr. Harold Vinegar and his experience gained working for 32 years at Shell Oil, Loprazolam australia, uk, us, usa, where he eventually became chief scientist. Buy Loprazolam Without Prescription, “In 1980, I became involved in unconventional oil shale development in Colorado, and we did our first pilot – the Red Pinnacle pilot – in 1981, in a small place in the Piceance Basin, where the oil shale is very close to the surface,” he told the Post during an interview last week ahead of the Israeli Presidential Conference. “We did this mostly out of the back of a pickup truck.”

After years of pioneering the industry and creating over 200 patents of his own, Vinegar left Shell in 2008 to come to Israel – which after the US, Canada, China and Jordan probably has the fifth-largest oil shale deposits in the world, according to experts.

“ doesn’t want to deal with Israel – they deal with OPEC – and for them an investment here would be small,” said Kadmiel, Loprazolam pictures, noting that Shell has, however, started to do extractions in Jordan.

Vinegar joined with Dr. Yuval Bartov to build IEI, which is today owned by International Discount Telecommunications and chaired by American philanthropist Michael Steinhardt.

Back at the President’s Conference interview, Vinegar produced a slab of oil shale rock and a vial of reddish liquid, Buy Loprazolam Without Prescription. Buy Loprazolam from mexico, “It looks like something you might drink, a wine, a rosé, perhaps,” he said. “It’s hard to believe that from a rock like this you can make an oil of such high quality.”

For Vinegar, not only is shale oil a much cleaner alternative to crude, it’s also a matter of “energy security.”

Israel imports 270, purchase Loprazolam online,000 barrels of petroleum per day of oil and needs 50,000 of that for routine military operations – exactly what IEI aims to produce – according to the scientists.

“This will be a source of thousands of skilled jobs and an enormous GDP growth for the country,” Vinegar said.

To make a profit, IEI needs to produce 50, Where to buy Loprazolam, 000 barrels per day of oil, which costs $40 per barrel to produce, as long as oil prices remain above $80 per barrel, Kadmiel said. Buy Loprazolam Without Prescription, “Oil shale is such a dense resource that of the 238 square kilometers on our license, we are going to use less than half of 1% in total,” Vinegar explained.

Kadmiel added, “It’s enough for us, for Israel to be independent.”

As soon as IEI receives approval from the local district committee and the Water Authority, the company will start its 2.5-year pilot project near the Ha’ela junction, real brand Loprazolam online, which will include a production well and six or seven surrounding heating wells, according to Kadmiel.

A “demonstration phase” will follow the pilot, and then the commercial phase can take place. Optimally, the heating wells would run on natural gas, Loprazolam from canada, but the pilot will use electricity from the national grid and require about 75,000 kilowatts per day, she explained.

Even in the smoothest of scenarios, however, Vinegar said that no oil is likely to start flowing until 2018-2020. And IEI is facing a plethora of environmental objectors, who say that natural resources will be destroyed and that increased production of fossil fuels is unnecessary, Buy Loprazolam Without Prescription.

Both Vinegar and Kadmiel stressed that the company is striving to leave as small a surface footprint as possible, with most work occurring underground and no gas escaping to the air, buy Loprazolam from canada. The aquifer runs 200 meters below the shale, with an impermeable rock layer in between, according to Kadmiel.

“From the moment you enter the ground, it will take about five to seven years to restore to its original state,” she said. Cheap Loprazolam no rx, “The land we’re using will become a field again.”

But Kadmiel acknowledged that the company must make stronger efforts to engage with environmentalists and the local community and “prove” that its methods are environmentally sound. Buy Loprazolam Without Prescription, “It’s our responsibility,” she said.

In addition, a mere 350 people are expected to participate in the flotilla, as opposed to the 1,500 originally expected by the organizers, Buy Adipex-P Without Prescription.

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“There have been many obstacles and complaints. Some boats are not ready and it is not clear when we will sail, although we expect it will be in the coming week,” Ewa Jasiewicz, a leader of the Free Gaza Movement from Poland, told The Jerusalem Post from Greece, where can i buy Adipex-P online. “We cannot rule out the possibility that it will be pushed off until the beginning of next week.”

In any case, the Israel Navy is continuing with its preparations to stop the planned flotilla of 10 ships.

On Tuesday, officers from the navy and the air force held a series of meetings to review operational plans, and senior IDF officers have, Taking Adipex-P, over the past few days, spoken with foreign military attachés based in Israel as well as with their counterparts from countries whose citizens are participating in the flotilla. Buy Adipex-P Without Prescription, “We want to make sure everyone is aware of what we are doing and why,” a senior officer explained.

The 10 ships expected to participate in the flotilla include the Freedom from Ireland, The Audacity of Hope from the United States, the Tahrir from Canada, the Swedish and Greek Juliano, two Swedish-Greek cargo ships carrying 3, australia, uk, us, usa,000 tons of supplies, the Italian ship Stefano Chiarini and the French ships Julien Rivoire and Dignity.

The two French vessels left Corsica over the weekend and are making their way to the rendezvous point in the Mediterranean, Jasiewicz said, while other ships are docked in Greece awaiting approval to depart for the Gaza Strip. Adipex-P schedule, On Tuesday, the propeller shaft of the Juliano was found cut, leading organizers to accuse Israel of sabotaging the ship, which will take several days to fix.

“Insurance has been withdrawn, one of the ships was sabotaged and Greek authorities have not given all of the permits,” Jasiewicz said about the delays, order Adipex-P online overnight delivery no prescription.

Jasiewicz rejected IDF assertions reported in the Post on Tuesday that intelligence obtained by Israel shows that some of the passengers plan to attack soldiers and are bringing sacks of sulfur on board to pour on the soldiers and then set them on fire, Buy Adipex-P Without Prescription.

“We have no record of that. It is a false claim,” she said.

“All of the passengers have been trained in nonviolence and noncompliance tactics. The whole idea is not to have contact with the Israeli army. Buy Adipex-P Without Prescription, We are not seeking any violent confrontation... Buy no prescription Adipex-P online, The only violence we have heard of is coming from the Israeli army.”

Chief of General Staff Lt.- Gen. Benny Gantz said on Tuesday that the flotilla is not meant to bring Gazans humanitarian aid, but rather to delegitimize Israel internationally.

Gantz, who was speaking at an IDF ceremony honoring reservists, said there is no lack of basic supplies in Gaza, and that they are “importing televisions and plasma screens, Adipex-P recreational, and exporting agricultural products to the entire Arab world.”

The IDF was well-equipped and ready to deal with any threat posed by flotilla activists, he said.

Speaking at the same ceremony, Defense Minister Ehud Barak called the flotilla a “provocation,” adding that “there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza. If are sensitive to human suffering, then they need to turn their efforts to freeing Gilad Schalit or at least allowing him visitors.”

Jerusalem Post staff contributed to this report.

According to the information obtained by the IDF, some of the participants have prepared sacks with sulfur, which they plan to pour on the soldiers as they board the vessels, Nitrazepam canada, mexico, india.

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“This is a chemical weapon, and if poured on a soldier it can paralyze him, Nitrazepam pharmacy, ” an IDF source told The Jerusalem Post Monday night. “If the sulfur is then lit on fire, the soldier will light up like a torch.”

The information was obtained from closed meetings held by participants on the ships during which some voiced their intention to “murder Israeli soldiers,” according to the IDF, Nitrazepam recreational.

Also, despite earlier predictions that members of the Turkish organization IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation would not participate in the flotilla, What is Nitrazepam, it now appears that some members will sail with the ships alongside other radical Islamic activists.

The Navy has begun its final preparations to stop the vessels, and the IDF sources said that commandos who board the ships will be prepared for a wide-range of scenarios from no violence at all to extreme and violent resistance from the passengers, Buy Nitrazepam Without Prescription.

Some of the operatives, the Shin Bet said, were Arabs from east Jerusalem in possession of Israeli identity cards enabling them to travel freely throughout the country.

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Over 20 suspects have been arrested in recent weeks, the Shin Bet said, including a number who have significant military experience and have previously served time in Israeli prisons. One of the alleged leaders of the group was Nasser Abu-Khadir, a 50-year-old resident of the Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem. Buy Nitrazepam Without Prescription, In 1981, Khadir was seriously injured when an explosive device he was building blew up in his hands. In 1988, he was released from prison and continued to engage in anti-Israel terrorist activity, for which he was arrested a number of additional times over the years.

The Shin Bet said that Khadir told his interrogators that he was responsible for establishing the terrorist infrastructure based in Jerusalem and Ramallah and was in touch with PFLP leadership in Damascus, which was supposed to provide financial and logistical assistance as well as overseas military training for Israel-based operatives.

Khadir allegedly instructed other members of the cells to purchase pistols and silencers and surrendered a weapon that he had already obtained following his arrest.

Another senior operative was Walid Habas, 31, from Kfar Akab in northern Jerusalem. Habas was released from an Israeli prison in 2007 after serving a four-year sentence for his involvement in the attempted lynching of an IDF soldier near Ramallah in 1998, Buy Nitrazepam Without Prescription. Habas allegedly recruited new operatives into PFLP ranks and worked with Khadir to purchase weaponry. The Shin Bet said that he told interrogators he had discussed the possibility of training in Iran with Khadir.

A cell run by Habas was allegedly planning to kidnap an IDF soldier, a number of shooting attacks at soldiers and settlers in the Ramallah area and a bomb attack in Jerusalem. One target considered for the attack was a hotel near the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Buy Nitrazepam Without Prescription, The cell, the Shin Bet said, was in the midst of working to obtain explosives as well as a cellphone which was to serve as the detonator. The cell members were also planning to murder a Palestinian they suspected of serving as a collaborator with Israeli security services.

Another operative, named Fares Barghouti, had served time in Israeli prisons between 2001 and 2005 and was released as part of an Israeli gesture to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. He was arrested a year later for involvement in the outlawed PFLP and was enlisted into the new terror cells in 2010.

Other cell members were responsible for locating apartments that could be used as headquarters and base of operations for the cell, and for obtaining false Israeli identity cards that they could use to enter Israel.