THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
AUGUST 25, 2010
By Siobhan Hughes Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–A Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA, RDSA.LN) executive told a commission investigating the BP PLC (BP, BP.LN) oil spill Wednesday that drilling off the coast of Alaska was safer than deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. He then faced challenges from a fellow panelist who said responding to a spill in Arctic waters would be much harder.
“It is adequate to proceed,” Joe Leimkuhler, an offshore well delivery manager for Shell Exploration and Production, told the National Commission on the BP-Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. Shell repeatedly has said it plans to drill in 150 feet of water, not the mile-foot depths BP was exploring. “In the Arctic the operating environment is indeed fundamentally different,” he said. He added that Shell plans to have “a flotilla of vessels” accompany drilling ships in the Arctic. read more
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