| TABLE 2 |
| ISRAEL: STRUCTURE OF THE MINERALS INDUSTRY IN 2003 |
|
| (Thousand metric
tons unless otherwise specified) |
| |
| Commodity |
Major operating companies |
Location of main facilities |
|
Annual capacity |
| Bromine |
|
Dead Sea
Bromine Group (DSBG) (Israel |
Sdom |
|
250. |
|
Chemicals Ltd. (ICL), 100%) |
|
|
| Cement |
|
|
Nesher Israel Cement Enterprises Ltd. |
Ramla |
|
5,000 clinker; |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
3,600 cement. |
| Do. |
|
|
do. |
Haifa |
|
2,000 clinker; |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
450 cement. |
| Do. |
|
|
do. |
Har Tuv |
|
1,000 clinker; |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
700 cement. |
| Lead,
refined secondary |
|
Harkunas Lead Works |
Ashdod |
|
25. |
| Magnesium: |
|
|
| Magnesia |
|
|
Dead Sea Periclase Ltd. (DSP) (ICL, 100%) |
Mishor Rotem |
|
95. |
| Do. |
|
|
Tateho Dead Sea Fused Magnesia Co. (DSP, 50%, and |
do. |
|
13. |
| |
|
|
Tateho Chemical Industries Co. of Japan, 50%) |
|
|
|
| Magnesium, refined |
|
Dead
Sea Magnesium Ltd. (ICL, 65%, and Volkswagen |
Sdom |
|
35. |
| |
|
|
AG of Germany, 35%) |
|
|
|
| Natural gas |
million cubic meters |
|
Noble Energy Inc. |
Mari-B gasfield |
|
6,200. |
| Petroleum: |
|
|
|
| Crude |
thousand 42-gallon |
|
Lapidoth Israel Oil Prospectors Corp. |
Heletz-Brur |
|
22. |
| |
barrels |
|
|
|
|
|
| Do. |
do. |
|
do. |
Kochav |
|
9. |
| Refined |
do. |
|
Oil Refineries Ltd. (Government, 100%) |
Haifa |
|
58,400. |
| Do. |
do. |
|
do. |
Ashdod |
|
36,500. |
| Potassium: |
|
|
|
| Potash |
|
Dead Sea Works (DSW) (ICL, 100%) |
Sdom |
|
2,800. |
| Potassium nitrate |
|
|
Haifa Chemicals |
Haifa |
|
300. |
| Do. |
|
|
do. |
Mishor Rotem |
|
200. |
| Phosphate: |
|
|
|
| Phosphate rock |
|
Rotem Amfert Negev Ltd. (ICL, 100%) |
Arad, Oron, and Zin |
|
5,500. |
| Phosphatic fertilizers |
|
|
do. |
Rotem |
|
NA. |
| Do. |
|
|
Haifa Chemicals Ltd. |
Haifa |
|
NA. |
| Phosphoric
acid1 |
|
|
Rotem Amfert Negev Ltd. |
Rotem |
|
640. |
| Do. |
|
|
Haifa Chemicals Ltd. |
Haifa |
|
NA. |
| Salt |
|
|
Dead Sea Works |
NA |
|
700. |
| Do. |
|
Israel
Salt Industries Ltd. (subsidiary of Danker |
Atlit, Eilat, and Kalia |
|
NA. |
|
Group) |
|
|
| Steel: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Crude |
|
Hod Metals |
Akko |
|
200. |
| Do. |
|
|
Yehuda Steel Ltd. |
Ashdod |
|
150. |
| Rebar |
|
|
do. |
Gedera |
|
230. |
| Do. |
|
|
do. |
Ashdod |
|
120. |
| Do. |
|
|
do. |
Akko |
|
220. |
| Do. |
|
|
Hod Metals |
Kiryat Gat |
|
100. |
| Sulfur |
|
|
Oil Refineries Ltd. |
Ashdod |
|
40. |
| Do. |
|
|
do. |
Haifa |
|
33. |
| Sulfuric acid |
|
|
Rotem Amfert Negev |
Rotem |
|
NA. |
| Zinc |
|
|
Numinor Chemical Industries Ltd. |
Maalot |
|
NA. |
| NA Not available. |
| 1P2O5 equivalent. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|