Refinery set to get Barryroe oil flow

Oil from the 1bn-barrel Barryroe field is likely to be piped to Whitegate refinery in Cork.

The field is owned by Providence Resources, and its technical director John O’Sullivan has indicated that a pipeline with a fixed platform is the most likely option to be employed to recover the oil.

This would result in the oil being pumped about 70km to the Phillips 66 Whitegate Oil Refinery. This is the only oil refinery in Ireland and supplies one third of the country’s transportation fuels.