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Arctic drilling creeps forward now, and in 5 years
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Jul 1, 2012
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<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/arctic-drilling-creeps-forward-now-5-years-231104500.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/76P.0hOMPe2.wI8XYLTjDQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT04NTt3PTEzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/3e8d722452e20d12140f6a706700e660.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="In this photo taken Monday June 25, 2012 near Bellingham, Wash., and released by Shell Alaska, members of Shell’s well delivery group, along with representatives from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement witnessed the deployment of the capping stack that will join Shell’s Alaska drilling fleet. The device looks like a giant spark plug. It's designed to kill a blowout by providing a metal-to-metal seal on a busted blowout preventer. Its successful deployment 200 feet below the water meant Shell passed another requirement for drilling exploratory wells in Arctic waters for the first time in more than two decades. (AP Photo/Shell Alaska)" align="left" title="In this photo taken Monday June 25, 2012 near Bellingham, Wash., and released by Shell Alaska, members of Shell’s well delivery group, along with representatives from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement witnessed the deployment of the capping stack that will join Shell’s Alaska drilling fleet. The device looks like a giant spark plug. It's designed to kill a blowout by providing a metal-to-metal seal on a busted blowout preventer. Its successful deployment 200 feet below the water meant Shell passed another requirement for drilling exploratory wells in Arctic waters for the first time in more than two decades. (AP Photo/Shell Alaska)" border="0" /></a>In choppy water under blue sky off Bellingham, Wash., a Shell Oil crew on Monday lowered a "capping stack" 200 feet in the water and put it through maneuvers with underwater robots connected by cable to operators on the surface, a test that fulfilled one of the final steps required for permission to drill exploratory wells in Arctic waters.</p><br clear="all"/>
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