A deep-water drilling rig in the South China Sea operated by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, or Cnooc. Photo Credit Jin Liangkuai/Xinhua, via Associated Press By KATE GALBRAITH: A version of this article appeared in print on February 7, 2013, in The International Herald Tribune. AUSTIN, Tex. — The oceans deep are a repository [...]
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Shell hopeful on Arctic drilling despite setback
By Dan Joling on September 30, 2012 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The stars lined up — almost — for Shell Oil to drill exploratory wells this year in waters off Alaska’s north coast. The Arctic Ocean was on record pace for low sea ice. The Obama administration gave a qualified green light to drilling. Two [...]
Environmentalists Get Surprising Ally in Arctic Drilling Debate
By John M. Biers TOTAL CEO SEES ARCTIC DRILLING AS RISKY BUSINESS When was the last time you heard an executive from Big Oil say no thanks to drilling a hot prospect because it was too risky to the environment? Yet that’s what Total Chief Executive Christophe de Margerie just did with arctic drilling. The [...]
Oil and Ice – The Risks of Drilling in Alaska’s Arctic Ocean
By Kiley Kroh, Lauren Santa Cruz, Michael Conathan, and Andrew Satter Earlier this year, it seemed almost a foregone conclusion that Royal Dutch Shell would begin drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska’s North Slope. Since then, a litany of factors including difficulty handling its drilling rigs, failure to secure Coast Guard approval [...]
Tony Hayward Gets His Life Back
By STANLEY REED A version of this article appeared in print on September 2, 2012, on page BU1 of the New York edition IF there’s a public villain of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill — one person who, rightly or not, will be remembered for the deadly blowout, the black slick and all that [...]
Lawsuit for Release of Key Arctic Offshore Safety Data
Press Release For Immediate Release: August 30, 2012 Contact: Kirsten Stade (202) 265-7337 Lawsuit for Release of Key Arctic Offshore Safety Data Testing Results for New Blowout Capping System Sought “Crucial” safety data on response to an offshore oil rig blowout in icy Arctic waters has not been released as required by law, according to [...]
For Shell, risks outweigh rewards for offshore oil drilling in Arctic
Jim Coburn, JD | Aug 08, 2012 Shell Oil’s spill response gear staged in Wainwright. Summer 2011. Ben Anderson photo Just two years after BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, another oil industry giant is poised to begin drilling in an even more forbidding, unpredictable and remote environment: the Alaskan shoreline.Shell [...]
Social media #fail: how Greenpeace let Shell off the hook over Arctic drilling
Greenpeace has an impressive track record on social media engagement so why has its most recent campaign, an elaborate hoax of Shell’s Arctic exploration, seemingly flopped? It’s not often that a major oil company comes off looking more social savvy than either a major media company or one of the world’s leading social media platforms. [...]
Shell’s Arctic Drilling Venture Stumbles Toward Reality
Posted: 07/17/2012 12:45 pm Royal Dutch Shell, the global energy giant, has already invested more than $4 billion in its Arctic drilling venture, but that was apparently not enough to purchase proper mooring in Alaska’s Dutch Harbor and avoid a subsequent public relations mess. Precisely what happened is still being sorted out. Official accounts had [...]
City investors are getting cold feet about Arctic oil prospecting
As well as the environmental and ethical argument against oil drilling in the Arctic, some investors say it is too risky to back Terry Macalister: guardian.co.uk, Thursday 21 June 2012 15.51 BST Sir Paul McCartney and Greenpeace want to turn the Arctic into a no-go area for oil companies – but there are already signs [...]
Shell May Face Delays in Alaska
Updated July 10, 2012, 1:55 p.m. ET By ANGEL GONZALEZ And ALEXIS FLYNN BP RDSB.LN +1.12% Plc’s and Royal Dutch Shell RDSB.LN +1.12% Plc’s plans to develop offshore oil in Alaska’s Arctic frontier are facing setbacks, as they meet with stricter scrutiny and rising costs stemming from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. London-based BP said [...]
Groups plan suit over Shell drilling off Alaska
By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska | Mon Jul 9, 2012 11:18pm EDT (Reuters) – A coalition of environmental groups on Monday announced plans to file a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn federal approvals for Royal Dutch Shell’s planned exploration drilling in Arctic waters off Alaska. The 10 groups said they had prepared a lawsuit to [...]
Critics continue objections, but Arctic offshore drilling moves forward for 2012, future years
By Associated Press, Monday, July 2, 12:11 AM ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In choppy water under blue sky off Bellingham, Wash., a Shell Oil crew on Monday lowered a “capping stack” 200 feet in the water and put it through maneuvers with underwater robots connected by cable to operators on the surface, a test that fulfilled one of [...]
Court To Allow Shell to Drill in Gulf of Mexico
The Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday threw out a petition by Defenders of Wildlife and Gulf Restoration Network to halt Shell Oil’s latest exploration plan to drill in the Gulf of Mexico. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management had approved Shell’s plan, or “Shell EP,” to conduct drilling in ten exploratory wells [...]
Greenpeace, Shell show off Arctic assets in Seattle
Alaska Dispatch | Jun 11, 2012 Popular Mechanics reports on touring the Kulluk, an oil rig being refurbished by Royal Dutch Shell to drill off the Alaska Coast this July. The Kulluk, currently residing in Vigor Shipyards in Seattle, is being refurbished by Royal Dutch Shell after six years of inactivity. The modifications of the [...]
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