Video: How Shell Plans to Deal with a Worst-Case-Scenario Oil Spill within the Alaskan Arctic

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Here’s an animation explaining Shell’s response plans within the case of an oil spill whereas drilling exploratory wells in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea.

Shell’s Alaska program has gone to nice lengths to guarantee that a worst-case state of affairs, corresponding to an oil spill, by no means takes place. But accidents do occur, and within the unlikely occasion that one did, Shell will deploy its onsite oil spill response belongings to handle the state of affairs. The video above exhibits the way it will go down.

Right now, Shell is awaiting the ultimate approval wanted to maneuver ahead with its exploratory drilling plans in Chukchi Sea this summer time. The drilling program will mark Shell’s first return to the area since its failed summer time 2012 marketing campaign.