Chief of Shell’s Arctic drilling program searches for ‘the prize’

Chief of Shell’s Arctic drilling program searches for ‘the prize’

May 24th, 2015

by John Donovan. 

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By Hal Bernton and Coral Garnick: Seattle Times staff reporters: Published 23 May 2015

Chief of Shell’s Arctic drilling program searches for ‘the prize’

(Ann Pickard, Shell’s executive vice president for the Arctic)

Shell’s Ann Pickard says an offshore oil find in the remote Chukchi Sea could eventually yield 1 million barrels of oil daily, and she insists the company has learned from its messy Arctic exploration effort in 2012.

In a brief summer drilling season off Alaska’s Arctic shore, Shell’s Ann Pickard is on the hunt for a giant oil field, and she thinks she knows where to find it.

All of the vessels in the Arctic exploration fleet now gathering in Puget Sound will be headed to a spot in the Chukchi Sea where Shell first drilled in 1989 and 1990. At that site, called the Burger Prospect, the company found natural gas that Pickard hopes is sitting on top of the oil Shell seeks.

“We are going to focus on what I call the prize, and the prize to me is Burger,” said Pickard, Shell’s executive vice president for the Arctic. “If Burger works, then it opens up the whole area.”

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Posted in: Alaska, Ann Pickard, Arctic, Chukchi Sea, Climate Change, Environment, Gas,Litigation, Oil, Oil Spill, Pollution, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Shell, United States.
Tagged: Alaska · Arctic Ocean · Chukchi Sea · Environment · Oil · Royal Dutch Shell Plc ·Shell

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