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Critics: Accident shows folly of Arctic drilling
2013-01-03 16:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: There's no indication of a fuel leak from a petroleum drilling ship that ran aground on a remote Alaska island, the Coast Guard says, but the maritime accident has refueled debate over oil exploration in the U.S. Arctic Ocean. The Royal Dutch Shell PLC ship was being towed to a Pacific Northwest shipyard for maintenance when it went aground during a vicious storm New Year's Eve. "There are still no signs of any sheen or environmental impact and the Kulluk appears to be stable," Coast Guard...
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Salvage crew boards grounded drilling rig in Alaska
2013-01-03 07:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MSNBC: A team of six salvage experts boarded, on Wednesday, an oil drilling rig that went aground off an uninhabited island in the Gulf of Alaska. The team was lowered to the Kulluk by a Coast Guard helicopter to conduct a structural assessment of the rig. The experts were on board the rig for about three hours. Earlier efforts to board the rig were put on hold due to severe weather conditions over the past several days. Conditions were calmer on Wednesday. The Kulluk broke loose of its tether...
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Rig Grounding Revives Debate Over Shells Arctic Drilling
2013-01-03 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: This weeks grounding of a rig off the coast of Alaska adds to a series of mishaps in Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA)s seven-year quest to tap the vast oil reserves of the Arctic and emboldened critics who say it cant be done safely. The drill ship Kulluk broke free of a tow boat in a storm Dec. 31 and remained upright though stranded last night on the coast of Sitkalidak Island, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) southwest of the town of Kodiak. The crew was evacuated and there were no signs the vessel...
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Petromanas abandons drilling of Juban-1 well in Albania
2013-01-03 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Canada-based oil and gas company Petromanas Energy has decided to abandon the Juban-1 well due to the insignificant amounts of hydrocarbons found.
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Shell oil drilling platform stranded in sensitive Arctic region
2013-01-02 21:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The multinational oil giant Shell is facing fresh criticism of its Arctic offshore oil drilling programme, after one of its platforms was left stranded in an environmentally sensitive area of the Alaskan coast. The rig, called Kulluk, ran aground on an uninhabited island during a storm at the weekend while being towed back to Seattle for maintenance. By high winds and heavy seas were still preventing crewmen from boarding to check for damage. No leak has so far been seen from the rig, which is...
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