EPA Issues Draft Air Quality Permits For Shell, ConocoPhillips in Arctic Waters

摘要

The Environmental Protection Agency issued draft air quality permits July 22 to Shell and ConocoPhillips for planned drilling in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas. The new draft permits were issued for mobile rigs that are proposed to be classified as minor sources of air pollution, with total airborne emissions under 250 tons a year, EPA's Region 10 office said. Shell's draft permit is for the Kulluk, an offshore drilling rig the company intends to use in 2012 and 2013 on leases in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska's north coast Arctic waters. ConocoPhillips' draft permit is for a yet-unspecified jack-up rig that would drill on leases 70 to 100 miles offshore in the Chukchi Sea.