Shell released this video outlining its safety efforts for Arctic exploration. The company received conditional approval for its exploration plan in the Chukchi Sea on 11 May 2015.
Shell is planning to spend US$1 billion to explore the Arctic, including drilling exploration wells in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea.
The company’s Alaska program has gone to great lengths to make sure a worst-case scenario, such as an oil spill, never takes place, Shell said. But in the unlikely event that one did, Shell’s onsite oil spill response assets would be deployed within one hour.
According to Shell, its Alaska operation maintains a highly capable emergency response planning and management program, and with this video, shows an illustration of what Shell Alaska would do if a spill should occur.
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