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Mayo Jobs on Corrib Project Now Over 500
17/12/2007
A further jobs boost has arrived for County Mayo with the number of workers on the Corrib Gas project in Mayo now over 500. The bulk of the jobs are based at the Construction site for the Bellanaboy gas terminal. These numbers will rise at an average of 100 workers per month and reach a peak of over 800 in March 2008. At that point it will be the largest construction site in the West of Ireland.
With all the major contractors now on site progress on the construction of the terminal at Bellanaboy is ahead of schedule. The local employment content remains at more than seventy per cent with a series of contractors such as Artec, Hegarty Electrical, Shevlin Engineering, Gilmore Security, OEL and Teach Iorrais, joining with major specialist contractors such as Project Management/Foster Wheeler, Roadbridge, SIAC Butler Steel, Land and Marine, Kilcawley Construction, Hertel and Mercury Engineering all on site.
Mercury Engineering, which won the mechanical and electrical contract, is now gearing up towards full operations. It is expected that on average a further one hundred workers will be taken on board monthly between now and March when the project employment will exceed 800. This figure will begin to wind down as the construction element of the project draws towards completion in 2009.