By DAN JOLING, Associated Press 29 June 2011
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Shell Oil President Marvin Odum has faith that his company can develop vast reserves in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest coast. But he’d like to get on with exploratory drilling to tap into a resource that could be crucial to meeting the country’s energy needs.
“That’s an area where working in Alaska has, frankly, been disappointing to us as a company,” Odum said in an interview with The Associated Press. “It has taken much longer that we originally thought it would.”