Shell receives conditional approval to drill in the Arctic Ocean
Shell has received conditional approval from the White House to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean, The New York Times reports. The oil company is allowed to start exploratory drilling in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas later this summer.
The plan submitted by Shell has been in the works since 2011; it has been revising the plan with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management since then. The most recent version proposes the drilling of up to six wells within the Burger Prospect, an oil-rich area in roughly 140 feet of water 70 miles northwest of the village of Wainwright.
One ship has given Shell trouble in the past
Shell will use a semi-submersible drilling unit called the Transocean Polar Pioneer and a drillship called the Noble…
Source:: The Verge
