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With 2 Ships Out of Commission, Shell Suspends Arctic Drilling

2013-02-27 21:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: After a series of costly and embarrassing accidents in its efforts to drill exploratory wells off the north coast of Alaska last year, Royal Dutch Shell announced on Wednesday that it would not return to the Arctic in 2013. The companys two drill ships suffered serious accidents as they were leaving drilling sites in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas last fall and winter and are being sent to Asia for repairs. Shell acknowledged in a statement that the ships would not be fixed in time to drill during...

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