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Shell Says Tax Played Role in Move of Drilling Rig That Grounded
2013-01-11 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Avoiding a state tax played a role in Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA)s decision to move a drilling rig from Alaska waters, though the company said the vessels grounding days later was the result of an unforeseen worsening of weather. The Kulluk broke free from its tugboat in stormy seas on Dec. 31 and ran aground on an uninhabited Alaskan island, another embarrassment for a company that has spent $4.5 billion and seven years in pursuit of oil beneath the Chukchi and Beaufort seas in the Arctic...
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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Grounded Alaskan oil ship shows no sign of leakage
2013-01-02 11:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Two aircraft have flown over an oil drilling ship that ran aground in a severe Alaskan storm and saw no sign that the vessel was leaking fuel or that its hull had been breached. The Royal Dutch Shell ship, the Kulluk, which was used in the Arctic last summer, ran aground on Monday on a sand and gravel shore off an uninhabited island near Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska. The ship appeared stable, according to US federal on-scene response co-ordinator Captain Paul Mehler. "There is no sign...