Yossi Abu

Yossi Abu (Hebrew: יוסי אבו‎; born December 7, 1977) Is an Israeli executive currently serving as the chief executive officer of Delek Drilling of the Delek corporation. In his former position he served as a professional adviser to the Minister of finance, Roni Bar-On.

Yossi Abu
Born (1977-07-09) July 9, 1977
NationalityIsraeli
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem
OccupationCEO of Delek Drilling
Chairman of Tamar Petruleum
Former CEO of Avner Oil & Gas

Biography

Yossi Abu was born in the Jerusalem district of Israel. Abu has a bachelor's degree in law from the Hebrew university of Jerusalem. He is Married and is a father of three.[1]

In the years 2007–2009 Abu served as a professional adviser to the Minister of finance, Roni Bar-On (of the 17th Knesset of Israel) until in March 2009 he was appointed to Commerce and Regulations manager at Delek Energy.

In 2011 he was promoted to the position of Delek Drilling CEO and has been filling this position since then.[2] As Delek Drilling CEO, Abu led the development of the Tamar gas field, which was the first major natural gas finding off-shore Israel, and today generates more than 60% of Israel's electricity.[3] In addition, he led the discovering of the Leviathan Natural Gas reservoir finding in 2010 – one of the world's largest offshore gas finding of the past decade.[3][4][5]

As CEO of Delek Drilling he led the financing of the Leviathan Project in the amount of $1.75 billion (The total investment in the first stage of the project was $3.75 billion), and the negotiations with Jordan and Egypt on signing regional export agreements of natural gas from Tamar and Leviathan Reservoirs with an estimated worth of $15 billion.[6][7]

In the years 2016–2017 he also served as CEO of Avner Oil and Gas until its merge with Delek Drilling was signalized.[8] From 2017 Abu serves as chairman of Tamar petroleum and as of 2018 he also serves as CEO of Delek Energy.

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See also

References
  1. Sijnja, Jennifer (2018-11-01). "Yossi Abu, CEO of Delek Drilling". The CEO Magazine. Retrieved 2018-12-22.
  2. Editorial, Reuters. "Delek Drilling LP". U.S. Retrieved 2018-12-22.
  3. Lidman, Melanie. "10 things to know about Israel's natural gas". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2018-12-22.
  4. Yaacov Benmeleh and Mirette Magdy (2018-09-27). "Israel, Egypt Gas Partners Buy Control of Key Export Pipeline". Retrieved 2018-12-22.
  5. Bronner, Ethan (2010-12-30). "Israel Confirms Major Natural Gas Discovery". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-12-24.
  6. "Israeli Leviathan partners get up to $1.75 billion HSBC, JPMorgan..." Reuters. 2016-11-27. Retrieved 2018-12-22.
  7. "Egyptian, Israeli firms sign $15bn natural gas deal | Egypt News | Al Jazeera". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2018-12-22.
  8. "Israeli energy firms Delek Drilling, Avner Oil to finally merge". Reuters. 2017-05-17. Retrieved 2019-01-03.
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