PROVIDENCE Resources, a Dublin-based energy explorer, may bring Celtic Sea crude ashore by 2013 as it seeks to make the first profitable Irish oilfield, said chief executive Tony O’Reilly.

Repsol YPF SA will join forces with RWE AG and Woodside Petroleum Ltd to develop a gas and oil exploration project on the Canary Islands, Expansion reported, citing unnamed Repsol YPF sources.