Shell’s Arctic Drilling Mishaps ‘Troubling’ for U.S. Agency Head
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U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said “things went wrong” in Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s oil exploration off Alaska’s Arctic coast in 2012 and the company might be unable to continue its work this year.
Salazar, who ordered an internal 60-day assessment yesterday of Shell’s drilling in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, said potential damage to company’s Kulluk rig after it ran aground in a storm may force further delays in Arctic exploration.