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  • Island Offshore’s ‘Island Constructor’ nets BP deal

    8 April 2016
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian shipping company Island Offshore has announced that its vessel Island Constructor has been awarded a contract by BP. According to the shipping company, the contract is for the provision of light well intervention services on the UK continental shelf in July this year. Island Offshore did not reveal further details about the contract except that […]

  • Highlands and Islands MSP seeks review into island interconnectors

    15 May 2015
    Authorities & Government

    Scottish MSP representing the Highlands and Islands, Mike MacKenzie, has written to the new UK Energy Secretary, Amber Rudd, calling for an urgent review into island interconnectors for Orkney, Shetland and Westerns Isles to keep Scotland’s leading position in marine renewable energy.  “We are ten years ahead of the rest of the world in wave and tidal power research and […]

  • Ireland: Tidal Ventures Seeks Hydrographic Survey Services

    6 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    Bord Gais Eireann, on behalf of Tidal Ventures Ltd, a joint venture between Bord Gais and OpenHydro, is seeking a contractor to undertake hydrographic survey services for a tidal energy project. Tidal Ventures wishes to procure an offshore geophysical survey for a tidal energy development at Torr Head off the north coast of Antrim. The […]

  • Germany has its first green ship recycling facility

    21 August 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Infrastructure, Regulation & Policy, Vessels

    For the first time, it will be possible to recycle vessels in Germany rather than sending them to South Asia for demolition.

  • INFOMAR Plans Hydrographic Survey Offshore Ireland

    7 May 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport has been advised that a hydrographic and geophysical survey operation will be undertaken by INFOMAR off the south coast of Ireland between the 26th April and 4th June 2013. The RV Celtic Voyager (Callsign EIQN) is expected to carry out survey operations. The vessel will display appropriate lights […]

  • Ireland Falls Behind With Offshore Wind Development

    24 January 2011
    Business & Finance

    The EU is powering ahead in developing offshore wind but Ireland continues to fall behind, according to the National Offshore Wind… By Sarah Kirkwood (insideireland) [mappress] Source: insideireland, January 24, 2011

  • Waterways Ireland Prepares Grand Canal Dredging

    10 August 2012

    Waterways Ireland has announced a tender for the Dublin area dredging project. The work involves removing approximately 14,500m3 of existing deposited material from the bed of the Grand Canal over a distance of approximately 3,000m. The deadline for this tender is August 29, 2012. This dredging project is necessary to keep the canal navigable for […]

  • Ireland completes Galway Bay Ocean Observatory

    11 August 2015
    Authorities & Government, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), the Marine Institute and Commissioners of Irish Lights have completed the construction of the Galway Bay underwater ocean observatory. The ocean observatory will enable the use of cameras, probes and sensors to permit continuous and remote live underwater monitoring. The equipment has been installed in the Galway Bay […]

  • Ireland gets Marine Renewable Energy Atlas

    16 February 2016
    Environment, Research & Development, Technology

    Ireland has launched an online mapping service for the marine renewable energy community. The Marine Energy Atlas is a planning tool for resource assessment, identification of sites for development or understanding environmental and oceanographic interactions. Through the Atlas, data are readily available about the wave and tidal resource, users and activities in the marine environment, […]

  • Hibernia Networks Brings Express Link to Ireland

    22 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Hibernia Networks will land a direct connection of its Express cable to Cork, Ireland via a new landing station. Hibernia is the only transatlantic cable provider to own and operate three diverse cable landing stations in Ireland and the only provider with six diverse routes connecting the island of Ireland to North America and Europe […]

  • Europa Identifies New Prospects Off Ireland

    8 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Europa Oil & Gas has received a new prospect inventory from the Kosmos Energy, operator of the FEL 2/13 and FEL 3/13 licences in the South Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland. The inventory is based on the 3D seismic acquired in 2013 and includes the identification of a number of new, large prospects and leads on both licences. On […]

  • ORPC Ireland Bags Horizon 2020 Funding

    24 June 2016

    Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) Ireland has been selected for European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme funding to advance its hydrokinetic technology. Through the MaREI Centre in the environmental Research Institute, University College Cork (UCC), lab testing will be conducted at the Lir National Ocean Test Facility in Ringaskiddy, Cork Harbour, to validate system improvements to a full-scale ORPC hydrokinetic turbine […]

  • SmartBay Ireland Joins Ocean Energy Europe

    10 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Ireland’s marine test & demonstration facility actively seeks European wave device developers wishing to undertake funded sea trials in Ireland’s ¼ ocean energy test site. Ireland’s National Marine Test and Demonstration facility is located approximately 1.5km East of Spiddal on Ireland’s west coast. The Galway Bay test site is located within the national marine facility […]

  • Shell closes divestment of upstream assets in Ireland

    30 November 2018

    Oil major Shell has left the upstream sector in Ireland following the sale of its interest in the Corrib gas project. 

  • Eni delays Dunquin South work (Ireland)

    5 June 2019
    Exploration & Production

    Eni, the operator of the Frontier Exploration Licence (“FEL”) 3/04 located in the southern Porcupine Basin offshore Ireland, has postponed a well site survey over the Dunquin South prospect.

  • Ireland: North Harbour Development Plan Introduced

    12 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has introduced a plan for the harbour improvement works at the North Harbour, Cape Clear Island. The proposed works comprise of the demolition of the Bull’s Nose (structure which has fallen into disrepair and it’s replacement with a new reinforced concrete structure), all civil and marine works associated […]

  • Ireland: Providence presses on with Barryroe drilling plans

    21 September 2017
    Project & Tenders

    Irish oil and gas company Providence Resources has decided to push forward drilling plans of the Barryroe oil discovery offshore Ireland, despite the farm-in talks not progressing as planned. Barryroe lies in standard exploration license (SEL) 1/11 operated by Providence’s wholly owned subsidiary Exola DAC that holds 80 percent interest, with Lansdowne Celtic Sea Limited […]

  • Ireland: Results of Petronas’ Midleton well disappointing

    14 August 2015
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Petronas’ exploration well in the Celtic Sea offshore Ireland, which the company is drilling through its subsidiary PSE Kinsale Energy, has been deemed a failure.  According to its partner in the licence, Lansdowne Oil & Gas, drilling has reached target depth at the Midleton exploration well, in the licence SEL 4/07 in the Celtic Sea, and the […]

  • Wales and Ireland Take Part in the Ecostructure Project

    27 March 2017
    Business & Finance

    Universities in Wales and Ireland are joining forces to investigate how coastal defense schemes can be improved by more eco-friendly designs, reported the Welsh Government. More than €3 million of EU funds is being invested in the Ecostructure project, which will develop and trial new methods to enhance the quality of coastal structures, including sea-walls […]

  • Galway Port Development to Bring Benefits (Ireland)

    25 January 2011

    Around 300 new jobs could be created in the construction phase of the new €200 million Galway Port, with a further 300 jobs when the … (galwaynews) [mappress] Source: galwaynews, January 25, 2011;

  • Dunmore East Harbour Needs Dredging (Ireland)

    20 April 2012

    In a letter to the Co. Council, the Department of Agriculture acknowledged that the Dunmore East Harbour needed to be dredged and said that it would cost around €6 million, waterford-news.ie reports. The letter stated, “This is a significant outlay in the current context of the national finances and competing exchequer demands.” Sinn Féin Cllr. […]

  • Polarcus shoots seismic over Drombeg (Ireland)

    30 June 2014
    Business & Finance

    Providence Resources P.l.c. has announced that 3D seismic surveying operations have started on its Drombeg oil exploration prospect in the southern Porcupine Basin, offshore south-west Ireland.

  • GH2 to develop Ireland’s first hydrogen valley

    15 April 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    The Galway Hydrogen Hub (GH2) consortium has proposed to develop Ireland’s first hydrogen valley, a regional ecosystem that links H2 research, production, and distribution with end-users.

  • Seatricity to Test Its Wave Device in Ireland

    2 July 2015
    Research & Development, Technology

    Seatricity Ltd, a Cornwall-based wave energy company, will spend the week of 13th-18th July tank-testing its Oceanus 2 device in the Beaufort Wave basin at the Hydraulics and Marine Research Centre of the University College Cork, Ireland. Aims of the trial will include analysis of further optimisation options affecting predicted device outputs for use as […]

  • EMEC to Test Saipem Floater Offshore Ireland

    20 March 2019
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    A consortium led by the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has secured funding from Interreg North West Europe to test Saipem’s floating wind technology offshore Ireland. The Accelerating Market Uptake of Floating Offshore Wind Technology (AFLOWT) project is expected to demonstrate the survivability and cost-competitiveness of floating offshore wind. Under the EUR 31 million project, a floating wind turbine […]