For the past five years, Shell has been trying to organize a summer of drilling on offshore federal leases in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas where it believes there are commercially viable oil deposits.
But the company has been unable to acquire all the permits it needs. BP's disastrous blowout in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 forced Shell to rethink its plans, even though its initial drilling would be in much shallower water and to far shallower depths than were attempted by the Deepwater Horizon drill ship at BP's Macondo well.
Alaska will drill, explore, and produce oil again, whether folks in the States like it or not. Read more at the link.
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Independence from foreign oil implies dependence on domestic oil ... and we >need< oil for at least the foreseeable future - something's got to lube all the windmills :)
...though truth be known - at least acknowledged - much/most of our "foreign" oil is from Canada and Mexico.
"Helping America" means letting Americans help themselves. We have coal, natural gas, and oil (the US is a major exporter of oil). Let's help us first.
Good for Shell! Here's hoping they find lots of the black gold on those leases.
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