Despite mixed results in the past, exploration groups are once again planning to dip their toes into Irish waters
Oil and gas giant Exxon Mobil is due to begin exploratory drilling in the Porcupine Basin off the Republic’s southwest coast early in 2013.
The group will be one of the first “majors” to drill seriously in the State’s territorial waters since Shell began work on the Corrib gas field in the 1990s.
SIXTEEN years after the controversial Corrib gas field was discovered, the culmination of the project is now in sight as tunnelling for its final phase started at Sruwaddacon Bay, in north west Mayo, over the weekend. The 4.9km tunnel will be the longest raw gas pipeline in western Europe and longer than Dublin’s port tunnel.
Tunnelling for the Corrib gas onshore pipeline has started successfully, Shell E&P Ireland (SEPIL) has confirmed. After 17 months of preparatory works, ‘Fionnuala’, the specially-designed tunnel boring machine (TBM), installed the first concrete ring in the segment-lined tunnel under Sruwaddacon Bay on Sunday morning last. Construction of the 4.9km tunnel, which will carry part of the Corrib onshore pipeline, is expected to last approximately 15 months.
[Shell to Sea] Richard Boyd Barrett challenged Enda Kenny in the Dáil on the continuing oil and gas giveaway using figures from Shell to Sea's "Liquid Assets" which is available here
Richard Boyd Barrett TD, People Before Profit/United Left Alliance raises question of Oil and Gas Wealth with Taoiseach, Enda Kenny (Fine Gael) during Leaders Questions on Wednesday, 12th December 2012.
- Partners in crime try to avoid further embarrassment by settling with the plaintiff out of court -
Today in Belmullet district court Shell and Mayo County Council stood co-accused in a case for blocking the road during the disastrous attempt to deliver the Tunnel Boring Machine to Shell's tunnelling site at Aughoose in August this year. The co-accused settled out of court with the plaintiff and had the case struck out before the details were made public.
- Engineers blocked from entering tunnelling compound, landfall valve work disrupted.
Yesterday morning 8 campaigners from the Rossport Solidarity Camp blocked workers from entering Shells main work site for the Corrib Pipeline project for 2 hours. A second action later in the day halted work at the Glengad compound, where Shell are expanding their compound to build a landfall valve.
[Shell to Sea] The carve up of Ireland's oil and gas resources has quickened lately. Proof in this article how oil executives have just sat on oil finds made in the 1970's & 80's waiting for the right time. See Padraig Campbell speak on his experience of the oil companies sitting on oil and gas finds here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLMLSAVZQzI
Shell to Sea campaigners have gathered outside the Dáil today to highlight the government's policy of continuing the giveaway of our valuable oil and gas resources.
News Release - Issued by Shell to Sea - April 12th, 2015 - For immediate release
-- Shell to Sea send submission on RTE's Public Service Statement --
Shell to Sea have today sent in a submission to RTE as part of RTE's public consultation on the updating of their Public Service Statement [1]. In the submission, Shell to Sea claimed that RTE had failed to inform the public in an honest and balanced manner on the Corrib Gas project.