VOL. XLV

No 17

29-April-2002

ISRAEL

Security Concerns Prompt Tractebel Request To SuspendTender For Gas System

Belgiums Tractebel has asked Israels National Infrastructure Ministry to suspend the $400mntender for the national gas transmission system project for a few months in thelight of the current security situation in Israel and the occupied territories. A statement issued by apartner in the project, Africa Israel, on 23 April said that it had beeninformed by Tractebel that due to the...