Israel facing blackouts on gas supply slump

摘要

Jerusalem—Israel is exploring its optionsto avoid severe power shortages during thepeak summer period as the loss of gasimports from Egypt and dwindling domesticsupplies threaten to starve its generatingcapacity of fuel.With new offshore gas fields not expect-ed to come on stream until mid-2013, thecountry is faced with trying to guaranteesupplies of gasoil and fuel oil to run thepower plants of the state-owned Israel Elec-tric Corporation.