Tony McLoughlin (Sligo-North Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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214. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources while understanding that a company (details supplied) has exercised the right to have first option on an exploration licence over all previously licensed areas, pursuant to articles 40 and 41 of the licensing terms for offshore oil and gas exploration development and production 2007, namely, changes to authorisation holder and assignments of transfers of interests, if changes have been communicated to him in relation to the options licence and the subsequent application for an exploration licence by the company; if such changes were received by his Department officials; the date they were received; the date which they were approved by him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45592/14]

Joe McHugh (Donegal North East, Fine Gael)
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Onshore Licensing Option 11/3 was granted to Tamboran Resources Pty Ltd., for a two year period from 1 March 2011 to 28 February 2013 over parts of the North West Carboniferous (Lough Allen) Basin.

Tamboran Resources Pty Ltd., submitted an application for a follow-on Exploration Licence prior to the expiry of Onshore Licensing Option 11/3. My Department has written to Tamboran Resources Pty Ltd., informing the company that further assessment of its application must necessarily await the outcome of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Research Programme into the use of hydraulic fracturing.

My Department has not received a section 40 notification of a change to the authorisation holder, or a section 41 application for ministerial consent for an assignment or transfer of interest, under the Licensing Terms for Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration, Development and Production 2007, in respect of Onshore Licensing Option 11/3 and the associated application for a follow-on Exploration Licence.