Alaska Dispatch | Jun 11, 2012
Popular Mechanics reports on touring the Kulluk, an oil rig being refurbished by Royal Dutch Shell to drill off the Alaska Coast this July.
The Kulluk, currently residing in Vigor Shipyards in Seattle, is being refurbished by Royal Dutch Shell after six years of inactivity. The modifications of the Kulluk are nearly complete, and the rig is set to be towed north this month, up through the Bering Strait and east of Point Barrow, with operations to begin in late July.
Popular Mechanics tagged along on a tour that was set up for Sen. Begich, who stopped in Seattle on his way back to Alaska for Memorial Day. They report that “the rig was freshly painted in blue and white; engineers onboard said that virtually every pump, gasket, hose, pipe, and motor had been replaced.”
Mark Duplantis, Shell’s well delivery manager in Alaska, explained that the safety features onboard the rig are superior to those of the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon. When asked about the blowout preventers (BOPs) onboard — the mechanism that failed in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 — Duplantis replied that “having two BOPs is a requirement here; the backup BOP would be used if the rig had to go into relief drilling mode.”
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Meanwhile, Greenpeace — which has already earned an injunction from Shell related to Arctic protest activity — is showing off its own Arctic technology, with a Russian ice-ready ship called the Esperanza and several submersibles that Greenpeace said will be used to observe Shell en route to the Arctic.
Seattle Radio station KPLU recently took a tour of the Esperanza and posted a video featuring the submersibles.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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