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Shell gets OK for Beaufort prep work

AP -- ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Federal officials have given Royal Dutch Shell PLC approval for limited site work in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska's north coast.

The decision Thursday was widely expected. A Shell drill ship, the Kulluk, is positioned in the Beaufort waiting for the whaling season to end.

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement already gave Shell approval for similar work in the Chukchi (chuk-CHEE') Sea.

The company can't drill into petroleum zones until its spill response barge is in place. A containment dome on the barge was damaged in tests last weekend.

Shell says it will drill pilot holes and perform other well preparation work this year.

The company hopes to tap into an estimated 26 billion barrels of recoverable oil and 130 trillion cubic feet of natural


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honda0105
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Message Posted: Sep 24, 2012 2:56:49 AM

let's hope Shell learned the lessons that BP never did.
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Message Posted: Sep 22, 2012 9:03:15 PM

Good
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ok
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Message Posted: Sep 22, 2012 3:42:59 AM

COOL
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 1:23:47 PM

OK
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 10:06:51 AM

Ok
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 9:44:24 AM

bluebird1, what are you talking about.
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bluebird1
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 8:54:49 AM

I guess better them than BP. I still go to Shell as last resort, since having a car affected by bad gas additive so fuel gauge didn't work - lived with it for yrs until tank needed replacing around yr 15. There was a class action suit but our vehicle was 2 yrs outside range covered.
Now here there's been a another death of an attendant during a gas-and-dash & it's come out stn docks wages for thefts & this was over $110 - likely over 2 days pay for the poor fellow.

Only thing Shell is doing is stating their policy is not to interfere in criminal activity - no reward to catch the guilty guy, no help with funeral, not even flag at half-mast at local Hq (that's only for royalty & dignitaries) etc. They're getting some very bad press over this, just like their tainted gas scandal they fought tooth & nail till proven guilty in court.
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 8:26:01 AM

Doesn't really seem to matter. Crude inventories are up and prices at the pump continue to rise.
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:58:18 AM

The oil cartel beat goes on.
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:51:27 AM

They just need to make sure they obey the safety rules.
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:42:51 AM

okay
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:37:41 AM

It's a start
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:30:00 AM

Time will tell.....
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:29:25 AM

Drilling pilot holes and getting prepwork done is not the same as the drilling of the actual well...You have to do the rock work and pour a foundation before you build a house...

[Edited by: EXTREMESNOW at 9/21/2012 10:30:49 AM EST]
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:29:13 AM

The Feds have more confidence in the containment barge passing the up right test than I do and not to mention the Blow Out Preventer valve thing.
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:25:37 AM

conficting shell posts today
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:25:26 AM

Go for it.
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:24:56 AM

They better have all their safety issues in place.
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:24:53 AM

Crossing my fingers.....
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:24:35 AM

ok
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:23:20 AM

Go for it.
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:22:18 AM

speculators are probably creaming their jeans in anticipation...
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:22:04 AM

Keep it safe
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:21:37 AM

Drill and build more refineries.
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:20:29 AM


This contradicts the previous news at the top.
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:18:45 AM

oily ice or icy oil?
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:18:03 AM

Hope they find oil to help our independence from other from other countries. Do it safely.
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:17:56 AM

good
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:17:55 AM

increase the supply and the prices will go....up?
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:17:44 AM

Shell is a first rate company, but I'm afraid we're getting into an area where we are not able to handle the dreadful and remote conditions up there.
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:17:39 AM

ok.
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:17:37 AM

ok
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:15:35 AM

Hope they find all they're looking for.
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:15:32 AM

Perp work - not drilling until the containment dome works...
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:15:26 AM

Drill, but exercise caution please.
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:14:58 AM

here we go again...
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:14:56 AM

Delay is better than error. Don't rush to a spill.
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:14:04 AM

I think this is a case where the left hand doesn't know or realize what the right hand is doing.
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:13:32 AM

Shell and Chevron have some of the highest fuel prices in the nation.
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:13:32 AM

That's one healthy heap of oil and gas.
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:13:28 AM

ok
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:13:20 AM

Natural gas is the way to go!
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:12:39 AM

If this is the same Shell drilling project, a previous article posted on this blog indicated that Shell has postponed this project until the summer of 2013 because of some safety dome being damaged during testing.
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:12:12 AM

Again, better safe than sorry!
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:11:38 AM

go ahead!
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:10:31 AM


The federal government allows drilling? Must be an election coming up.
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:10:23 AM

Sounds like Shell is doing it right.
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 7:10:21 AM

bart_reed is right, due it smartly and safely
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