The return marks a big step for Shell after a troubled 2012 season that galvanized environmental opposition to drilling off Alaska’s coast and forced the company to abandon exploration plans for 2013. The Transocean rig replaces Shell’s Kulluk, a drillship that ran aground in January while being towed south after completing its work off Alaska.
Dec 4 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell Plc will return to Alaskan offshore drilling next July and will deploy an upgraded drillship in the Chukchi Sea, while keeping a newly contracted backup drillship ready if needed, according to plans released on Wednesday.
The Noble Discoverer, now undergoing maintenance and upgrades in South Korea, will perform exploration drilling with a containment dome kept on standby in case of spills. Transocean’s Polar Pioneer will provide backup
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Drilling at Shell’s Burger prospect is set to be carried out from July through October, according to Shell’s Integrated Operating Plan.
The return marks a big step for Shell after a troubled 2012 season that galvanized environmental opposition to drilling off Alaska’s coast and forced the company to abandon exploration plans for 2013. The Transocean rig replaces Shell’s Kulluk, a drillship that ran aground in January while being towed south after completing its work off Alaska.
The Polar Pioneer – costing Shell in the range of $600,000 per day to lease – will be kept on hand to drill a relief well “only in the unlikely event of an incident,” according to the Shell plan, which was posted by the Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management.
“The planned 2014 operations may encounter many challenges,” the plan, which is dated Nov. 26, says. “Vast distances, harsh weather and sea conditions, possible volcanic and earthquake activity, and sparse shore-based infrastructure represent some of the considerable obstacles that must be planned for and accommodated.”
Shell also said all its drilling operations will be supported by rotary and fixed-wing aircraft, along with ice management vessels and a weather advisory center.
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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
