Shell drills Appomattox well in US Gulf

摘要

Washington-Shell expects this month to complete the first well in its giant Appomattox discovery in the US Gulf of Mexico and has applied for more permits under the deepwater exploration plan, the company said November 17 in a court filing. Drilling continues despite a lawsuit by environmental groups challenging US regulators' approval of the 10-well plan. In June, Defenders of Wildlife, Earthjustice and others sued the US government in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta and called the case a test for post-Macondo deepwater permitting.