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Repsol Discovers Oil In Alaska North Slope
2013-04-24 17:20:00| OGI
Repsol operates the discovering consortium, together with 70 & 48 LLC, a subsidiary of Armstrong Oil and Gas, and GMT Exploration Co.
Oil Rig Aground in Alaska Is Towed From Shoreline
2013-01-07 17:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A week after it ran aground along a rocky shoreline in the Gulf of Alaska, a Shell Oil drilling rig was refloated and towed to safer water for inspection, officials said Monday. Sean Churchfield, operations manager for Shell Alaska and a member of the response team that includes representatives from Shell, the Coast Guard and Alaskas environmental agency, said the rig was refloated late Sunday night and arrived in Kiliuda Bay, a sheltered area on Kodiak Island about 300 miles southwest of Anchorage,...
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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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Runaway Alaska oil rig dragged two tugs for miles
2013-01-02 22:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The runaway oil rig that ran aground in Alaska on New Year's Eve dragged two vessels trying to control it more than 10 miles toward shore in just over an hour before the crews cut it loose to save themselves in "near hurricane" conditions. Details were still emerging on Wednesday from the U.S. Coast Guard and Royal Dutch/Shell, the company at the center of a controversial and accident-prone Arctic oil drilling program of which the Kulluk drillship is a vital part. They paint a frightening picture...
Shell oil drill ship runs aground off Alaska coast
2013-01-02 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
One of two Arctic-class drillships deployed by Royal Dutch Shell for offshore drilling in the Arctic ran aground in the shallow water off Sitkalidak Island in the Gulf of Alaska after drifting in stormy weather.