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  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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: Corrib Tunnel Boring Operations Complete

    23 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Vermilion Energy Inc. informed that tunnel boring operations beneath Sruwaddacon Bay have been completed at the Corrib project in Ireland. The tunnel, which reached its total length of 4.9 km on May 21, will serve as a conduit for the gas pipeline between the Bellanaboy gas processing facility to the offshore pipeline landing valve at […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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. 

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • Ireland: Providence boasts ‘significant’ Avalon prospect

    17 July 2017

    Irish oil & gas company Providence Resources has described its Avalon prospect off Ireland as ‘significant’ following a technical report for Licensing Option 16/27.  The LO 16/27 is located in the central Porcupine Basin and is currently operated by Providence. Total farmed into the license in June but the change in ownership will become effective after receiving consent […]

  • 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 […]

  • Shell completes drilling of Corrib tunnel (Ireland)

    22 May 2014

    Vermilion Energy Inc. has announced that tunnel boring operations beneath Sruwaddacon Bay have been completed at the Shell-operated Corrib project in Ireland. The tunnel, which reached its total length of 4.9 km on May 21, will serve as a conduit for the gas pipeline between the Bellanaboy gas processing facility to the offshore pipeline landing valve […]

  • 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, […]

  • 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

  • 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 […]

  • Minister of State for Northern Ireland Visits SeaGen

    11 June 2014
    Authorities & Government, Technology

    On Thursday,25th June Marine Current Turbines (MCT), a Siemens-business hosted a visit from the Minister of State for Northern Ireland Andrew Robathan to its world-leading tidal turbine at Strangford Lough. SeaGen, which has been generating clean energy for 1,400 homes since 2008 is the world’s first and largest commercial scale tidal current turbine. The Minister […]

  • Scanning LiDAR Trials Start off Ireland

    12 February 2016
    Research & Development, Technology

    The Carbon Trust has today started the world’s largest trial of scanning Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology in Dublin Bay, Ireland, the latest Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) project designed to help reduce the cost of energy from offshore wind. Over the next three months, four different scanning LiDAR systems will be put through their paces, […]

  • SSE Seeks Survey Permits Offshore Ireland

    20 June 2019
    Business & Finance

    SSE Renewables has applied for Foreshore Licences to carry our surveys at two offshore wind sites in Ireland that could accommodate approximately 1.6GW of capacity. The applications to the Irish Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government seek approval for conducting geophysical, geotechnical and environmental investigations offshore Clogher Head and Bunmahon Bay. Both sites have the […]

  • 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 […]

  • Island Offshore sells Island Patriot offshore vessel

    12 May 2016
    Business & Finance

    Island Offshore, a Norwegian provider of offshore vessels for the oil and gas industry, has sold the M/V Island Patriot offshore vessel to an undisclosed buyer. In an announcement from Thursday, Island Offshore Group stated that the sale was on satisfactory terms to both parties. The vessel is expected to be delivered to the buyer today. The company […]

  • Island Offshore Secures Contract for MV Island Crown

    12 November 2013
    Business & Finance

    Island Offshore has entered into a contract with an undisclosed oil company on the charter of the purpose-built, state of the art “Walk-to-work”, maintenance, subsea and support vessel, M/V Island Crown. The contract is a seasonal charter and the main duty of the vessel will be to provide accommodation and walk- to-work services by means […]

  • 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 […]