{"id":535193,"date":"2026-07-10T19:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/535193\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T19:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:53:14","slug":"israel-finally-launches-fifth-offshore-bid-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/535193\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Finally Launches Fifth Offshore Bid Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel has finally launched its fifth offshore licensing round (OBR5), almost five months after officials said the process would begin \u201cwithin days\u201d before plans were overtaken by Israel\u2019s military campaign against Iran (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mees.com\/2026\/3\/6\/oil-gas\/energy-infrastructure-shut-in-as-israel-holds-its-breath\/6de49410-1969-11f1-b2b0-7f07c0769400\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MEES, 6 March<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Energy announced on 6 July that five offshore exploration clusters covering around 7,100km\u00b2 are now available for bidding, down from the six zones and roughly 8,600km\u00b2 originally proposed on 25 February (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mees.com\/2026\/2\/27\/corporate\/israel-to-launch-bid-round-despite-iran-conflict-risk\/9a6db1f0-13e6-11f1-87f7-e11c17f3c07b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MEES, 27 February<\/a>). (CONTINUED &#8211; 907 WORDS) <\/p>\n<p>\n        Read this article for free<br \/>\n        Gain access to over 60-years of energy analysis and news\n    <\/p>\n<p>                        Delve into the details backed by data<\/p>\n<p>                        Exclusive information from high-level officials<\/p>\n<p>                        Assess future risks and opportunities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel has finally launched its fifth offshore licensing round (OBR5), almost five months after officials said the process&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-535193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}