Corrib pipe-laying postponed due to project review

Enterprise Energy Ireland has postponed offshore pipe-laying for the Corrib gas project until the status of the proposed onshore terminal at Bellanaboy is confirmed.

The pipe-laying was due to begin next month, but was postponed pending a review of the entire project following Shell’s recent takeover of EEI.

The company had originally planned to begin bringing gas from the Corrib field ashore in early 2003, but this date has been put back to 2004 due to the review and a planning appeal by local residents over the proposed Bellanaboy terminal.