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Weather disrupts Shell efforts to free Alaska oil rig
2013-01-06 21:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The U.S. Coast Guard and Shell were making fresh preparations on Sunday to tow a grounded Alaska oil rig, saying crews would keep trying to connect a tow line after rough weather prevented their efforts all Saturday. According to a news release from the unified grounding response team, the aim, once the conditions are right, is to tow the rig to a sheltered bay nearby so experts can make a better assessment of its sea worthiness. Officials have declined to speculate on the exact timing of the...
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Extreme Weather Blocks Shell's Attempt to Recover Oil Rig
2013-01-06 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dow Jones: Unsteady seas thwarted Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA.LN, RDSA) and the U.S. Coast Guard's attempts Sunday to retrieve Shell's oil rig from an Alaskan island where it has been grounded for nearly a week. Shell's Kulluk oil rig crashed into the uninhabited Sitkalidak Island off the south Alaska coast late Monday after stormy seas pried it loose from tug boats that had been pulling it to Seattle for maintenance work. The Kulluk had been drilling exploratory wells in the Arctic waters as part of Shell's...
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VIDEO: Inquiry call after rig runs aground
2013-01-04 20:01:23| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Senior members of the US Congress are demanding an inquiry after a Shell oil drilling ship ran aground off Alaska.
Rig accident shows need to pause Arctic drilling: Green groups
2013-01-03 21:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Opponents of Royal Dutch Shell's ambitious Arctic oil program have called on the Obama administration to put offshore drilling plans in the region on hold after one of the company's oil rigs broke away from tow boats in high seas and ran aground off Alaska. The Natural Resources Defense Council and The Wilderness Society on Thursday said the accident involving Shell's Kulluk oil rig is new evidence that oil companies are not prepared to safely manage the extreme conditions of the Arctic. The...
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Rig owner pays $1.4bn to settle over Deepwater
2013-01-03 20:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Transocean, owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig at the centre of BP's Gulf of Mexico blowout, has reached a $1.4bn settlement with the Department of Justice to settle criminal and civil charges. The Swiss-based rig operator has been in the dock since April 2010 saw the worst spill in American history. The $1bn in civil penalties and $400m in criminal ones is in line with what the company was expecting. A formal statement had not been released on Thursday night but sources in the US confirmed...
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