EVERETT -- Despite protests from environmentalists and Seattle city leaders, Royal Dutch Shell is still planning to move its Arctic oil drilling rigs to a Seattle port terminal. One oil rig, the Noble Discoverer, docked in the Port of Everett Tuesday night.
[pdf] That’s what’s unfolding this week in Alaska, where a Shell drilling rig called the Kulluk broke free from a tow ship in stormy seas on New Year’s Eve before running aground on the southeast coast of Sitkalidak Island, near the larger island of Kodiak.
[pdf] Based on its 50-year history of successful operations in the closely regulated North Slope of Alaska, Nabors has designed, manufactured and operated specialized, high-specification rigs engineered for Arctic conditions.
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