Shell's new Chukchi plan: Two rigs drilling wells at the same time

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The Noble Discoverer prepares for its initial Chukchi Sea drilling operation in this view from the deck of the Tor Viking icebreaker September 8, 2012.

Shell's new Chukchi plan: Two rigs drilling wells at the same time
Yereth Rosen
August 28, 2014

Two years after its ill-fated drilling season in Arctic waters off Alaska, Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday submitted a revised plan intended to show how oil exploration will go more smoothly the next time the company drills in the Chukchi Sea.

Shell submitted the plan to the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, but has “made no formal decision” to carry out the drilling program, company spokeswoman Megan Baldino said.

“We’ve put a plan forward in order to preserve our options for a 2015 season,” she said.

The newly revised plan, proposing two rigs drilling in the Chukchi instead of one, replaces a revised exploration plan that Shell submitted last November, Baldino said. That plan was itself a replacement for the plan that won regulators’ approval in 2011 and guided the 2012 activities.

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A pic of the 'ill-fated' drilling season:



There's plenty more pics to be found at: https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1536&bih=702&q=shell+oil+rig+alaska+grounded&oq=shell+oil+rig+alaska+grounded