page_title: Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company / History
caption_attribution_description: English: One of the many oil reservoirs in Eilat
context_page_description: The Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company operates several petroleum and petroleum products pipelines in Israel, most notably the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline. It also operates two oil terminal and depots in the country. The company was originally formed in 1968 as a 50/50% joint venture between Israel and Iran to transport crude oil from Iran to Europe. After the Iranian Revolution 1979, Israel nationalized the company. In 2015, a Swiss court ordered Israel to pay Iran $1.1 billion compensation, which they refused to pay, argueing that this were prohibited by its Trading with the Enemy Act.
  The services of EAPC are: transporting crude oil and refined products, long term storage, crude oil blending, processing of liquefied petroleum gas, fuel oil, distillates and gas.
context_section_description: 1956: "Afike Neft" (Crude Oil Channel) founded to transport crude oil from Sinai to Haifa
  1957: construction of 3 oil tanks in Eilat, 20 cm (8") Ø pipeline from Eilat to Beer-Sheva, 3 oil tanks in Beer-Sheva, trains transport crude oil to Haifa, later construction of a 40 cm (16") Ø pipeline from Beer-Sheva to Ashdod and transportation by ship to Haifa
  1959: construction of a 40 cm (16") Ø pipeline from Eilat to Haifa
  1966: construction of the storage facility Ramat Yotam, Eilat; Jetty 1; booster station in Paran
  1968: EAPC established, construction of a 106 cm (42") Ø pipeline from Eilat to Ashkelon, terminal and port in Ashkelon
  1973: storage in Eilat expanded to 1.1 Mio. m³, in Ashkelon to 1.3 Mio. m³, additional booster station in Yotvata, 45 cm (18") Ø pipeline from Ashkelon to Ashdod
  1996: construction of a sea and land terminal for fuel oil in Ashkelon
  1998: construction of a modern LPG terminal
  1999: joint venture EAPC and Petroleum & Energy Infrastructures Ltd. (PEI), distillates unloaded in Ashkelon und distributed/pumped by PEI
  2000: marine services moved to Israel Electric Company (IEC), coal jetty for Rutenberg Power Station, Ashkelon
  2002: conversion of storage tanks for distillates, filling station for tanker lorries
  2003: reverse flow project finished (Russian oil delivered by tankers to Ashkelon, reloaded onto tankers in Eilat for shipment to Asia)
  2004: modern filling plant for LPG cylinders
caption: one of the storage tanks of the Ramat-Yotam tankfarm
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