Federal Investigators Blame Shell for Alaska Drill-Ship Accident

Federal Investigators Blame Shell for Alaska Drill-Ship Accident

May 29th, 2015 

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Federal Investigators Blame Shell for Alaska Drill-Ship Accident

By CASSANDRA SWEET: May 28, 2015 

Federal investigators have blamed Royal Dutch ShellPlc and its contractors for the December 2012shipwreck of a drill ship off the coast of Alaska.

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Mexico's Pemex Plagued By Deadly Offshore Explosions and Major Pipeline Spills

By Ben Jervey • Tuesday, May 26, 2015 - 10:57

It's been a disastrous year for Pemex, the state-owned Mexican oil company at the center of the nation’s landmark energy reforms.

In just over a month, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) starred in three tragic incidents, two fatal. 

First was a deadly explosion aboard a Pemex offshore oil processing platform, which killed at least four, injured 16, and—despite the company’s comments to the contrary—looks to have spilled a miles-long plume of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. A mere 15 days later, a spill from a Pemex pipeline in the state of Tabasco fouled three rivers and temporarily left half a million people without access to drinking water. Fast forward three weeks, and another accident on an offshore rig killed two workers.

These incidents, argues Gustavo Ampugnani, lead energy and climate campaigner for Greenpeace Mexico, foreshadow worsening oil- and gas-related disasters as the country’s massive energy reforms open Mexico’s vast fossil fuel reserves up to international companies that are even less regulated and scrutinized than State-owned Pemex.

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NTSB blames Shell for wreck of oil drilling ship Kulluk in Gulf of Alaska

NTSB blames Shell for wreck of oil drilling ship Kulluk in Gulf of Alaska

May 28th, 2015 

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By Joel Connelly: 28 May 2015

The National Transportation Safety Board blames the 2012 grounding and wreck of Shell’s Arctic drilling rig Kulluk on the oil giant’s “inadequate assessment of the risk” of towing it across the Gulf of Alaska in a winter storm.

“No single error or mechanical failure led to this accident,” the NTSB said in findings released this month. “Rather, shortcomings in the design of a plan with an insufficient margin of safety allowed the accident to take place.

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Feds rap Shell for poor planning in botched tow of 2012 Arctic drilling rig

Feds rap Shell for poor planning in botched tow of 2012 Arctic drilling rig

May 28th, 2015 

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By Jennifer A. Dlouhy: 28May 2015

Geoff Merrell, superintendent of emergency response, Shell Alaska: Photo: Jennifer A. Dlouhy/The Houston Chronicle

WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday blamed the grounding of Shell’s Kulluk drilling rig on the company’s failure to adequately assess the risks of towing the vessel across predictably stormy Alaska seas in 2012.

The independent federal agency’s findings, released Thursday, represent the third major government report on what went wrong when Shell Oil Co. and its contractors tried towing the Kulluk across Gulf of Alaska waters in December 2012 — only to have the rig run aground on Sitkalidak Island following a failed five-day fight to get control of it.

“No single error or mechanical failure led to this accident,” the NTSB said. “Rather, shortcomings in the design of a plan with an insufficient margin of safety allowed this accident to take place. The plan was created to move the (mobile offshore drilling unit) at a time of year with a known likelihood of severe weather conditions for reasons unrelated to operational safety.”

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Arctic drilling affects more than the Arctic, say Greenpeace campaign particpants

Arctic drilling affects more than the Arctic, say Greenpeace campaign particpants

May 28th, 2015 

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Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic: May 28, 2015

Representatives from six of Canada’s First Nations are currently taking part in a Greenpeace campaign with a message that Arctic drilling has the potential to negatively  impact communities far beyond the North.

“We know that the ongoing use of oil as a source of fuel is perpetuating  global warming or climatic change which effects all citizens of North America, and the world, including my small little community,” said Candace Campo, a business owner from the Sechelt First Nation in the western Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Shell estimates one million hours of offshore work saved from Brent Delta move

Shell estimates one million hours of offshore work saved from Brent Delta move

May 28th, 2015 

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Written by Energy reporter – 28/05/2015

Shell said in February it would seek approval for the Pioneering Spirit, thought to be the largest ship ever built, to lift and remove the topside in one piece, shunning more traditional methods which involve cutting installations into smaller sections.

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(THE SHIP BORN WITH A NAZI NAME – PIETER SCHELTE) 

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