Wednesday, January 2, 2013

To the rescue

Shell, headquartered in the Netherlands, naturally plans to use a Dutch outfit, Smit Salvage, to try to retrieve that behemoth drilling platform stranded at Kodiak Island.

The only question now is whether the rig will come off the beach whole, or in pieces.

Here is Shell's statement on the grounding.
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8 comments:

  1. SLAMNSALMNJanuary 3, 2013 at 1:32 AM

    Right, they can't trust Alaskans to do the job but we can trust SHELL to properly navigate our State and Federal waters. What was the course plan for the Kulluk in the first place, by way of Kodiak or Seward or just a round-a-bout the island for shot down the Gulf in January!! Somebody better tell Alaska that they can claim salvatge and take possession immediately. Maybe Shell will pay to get it back and we can all enjoy a PFD increase.

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2013 at 9:50 AM

    I believe that is a good point that Alaska can claim Salvage,pump the oil off and use it for free heating fuel in Old Harbor and Kodiak, before it just leaks all over the shoreline and turns Kodiak Herring just like Prince William Herring, Non existant

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2013 at 10:38 AM

    Like the Exxon Valdez, our environment is ultimately in the hands of an idiot in the headquarters building someplace, who has never set foot in Alaska.

    The public being led by the nose, thinks Kodiak is the Arctic, and right around the corner in Cook Inlet there is a thirty year oil production history not without blemishes, but if we admit our own mistakes, has done a pretty good job, in a harsh environment.

    Smit's is the best in the world, too bad they were not hired to tow this giant contraption in the first place.

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  4. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2013 at 3:51 PM

    New Forcast for Copper River and wild runs on the sound
    http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/home/news/pdfs/newsreleases/cf/242319996.pdf

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2013 at 11:04 PM

    containment boom there...good luck with that..

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  6. Terry MurphyJanuary 4, 2013 at 8:17 AM

    Why does everyone want to be anonymous on here? What are you all afraid of?

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  7. AnonymousJanuary 4, 2013 at 2:30 PM

    I'm afraid of you Terry Murphy.

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  8. HunterheatandairJanuary 18, 2013 at 1:26 AM

    Somebody better tell Alaska that they can claim salvatge and take possession immediately. Maybe Shell will pay to get it back and we can all enjoy a PFD increase. AC Service Edmond

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