Shell Planning Up to Six Wells Offshore Alaska, Possibly Drilling This Summer

摘要

The Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on Friday launched a review of Royal Dutch Shell plc’s newest multi-year plan to explore the Chukchi Sea offshore Alaska. The revised exploration plan (EP) submitted by Shell Gulf Gulf Mexico Inc. proposes to pick up where the operator left off in 2012. The program includes drilling up to six wells in the Burger prospect, located in the shallow waters of the Chukchi Sea Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) off the northwest coast of Alaska. Burger is in about 140 feet of water and is 7 miles northwest of the village of Wainwright.