A 2006 paper says Ireland imports over 85% of its gas from the UK. The balance coming from Kinsale Head (depleted?) and Corrib (not producing yet?). The paper talks of two years of planning and three years of construction. Which suggests if all goes smoothly it could be open for 2012, good for 400 million cf/d, 40% of Irish demand:

More information on the Hess LNG backed Shannon LNG development here:
http://www.shannonlngplanning.ie/

Seems it's still at the planning stage, application submitted last year . They've drawn some really nice pictures on an LNG import facility, that'll help.

Hello Chris,

Thank you for the links and information.

If my memory does me any justice I seem to recall that Norway sells some natural gas to Ireland related to a power plant (can’t recall the name but it was a joint venture by then Statoil and some other companies).

One of the challenges reading statistics on gas imports and exports is that even if it says x % imports from UK, it is difficult to identify the physical (or more correctly) the contractual origin for some of the gas.

Ref gas imported through BBL, is this all gas from Holland (which may be its physical origin) or could this also include contractual gas from Russia?