Mayo - Galway Gas Pipeline
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Galway - Mayo Gas Pipeline is an operating gas pipeline in Ireland.[1]
Location
The pipeline runs from Bellanaboy, County Mayo to Cappagh, County Galway.[2]
Project details
Main Line
- Operator: Gas Networks Ireland[1]
- Owner: Gas Networks Ireland[1]
- Parent company: The Government of Ireland[3]
- Diameter: 660 mm[2]
- Length: 149 km[4]
- Status: Operating [1]
- Cost: €200 Million[4]
- Start year: 2006[5]
New Towns Extension
- Operator: Gas Networks Ireland[1]
- Owner: Gas Networks Ireland[1]
- Parent company: The Government of Ireland[3]
- Status: Operating [1]
Background
Main Line
The Mayo-Galway Pipeline connects the Corrib Gas Pipeline to the national gas network.[6] The project allowed for the supply of gas to new towns in Galway and Mayo for the first time. A number of new archeological sites were discovered during construction.[5]
New Towns Extension
Over a period of approximately a decade between 2004 and 2014, Gas Networks Ireland built extensions to Mayo-Galway pipeline. The extensions bring natural gas towns near the mainline route including Ballina, Ballyhaunis, Castlebar, Claremorris, Crossmolina, Knock and Westport in Co. Mayo and Athenry, Craughwell, Headford and Tuam in Co. Galway.[7] The extension to Tuam was the last pipeline to be completed and this was in 2013. [8]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 www.gasnetworks.ie (PDF) https://www.gasnetworks.ie/sites/default/files/docs/renewable/Pathway-to-a-Net-Zero-Carbon-Network.pdf. Retrieved 2025-06-11.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 EPA. "Mayo - Galway Pipeline Environmental Impact Assessment" (PDF). www.epa.ie.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Corporate governance". www.gasnetworks.ie. Retrieved 2025-06-11.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Gala lunch - Mayo Live". www.mayonews.ie. Retrieved 2025-06-11.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Advertiser.ie - €240m natural gas infrastructure project nearing completion". www.advertiser.ie. Retrieved 2025-06-11.
- ↑ "Galway & Mayo towns added to gas grid". www.rte.ie. Retrieved 2025-06-11.
- ↑ Western Development Commission. "Policy Briefing No. 5" (PDF). westerndevelopement.ie.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Gaslink (2013). "Performance Report 2013" (PDF). gasnetworks.ie.
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