Tag Archives: Shelburne Basin
Shell Canada gets green light to drill for oil off Nova Scotia coast – timeline to cap a blowout is still between 12 and 13 days
The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board has authorized a Shell Canada Ltd. drilling plan in the Shelburne Basin that allows the company between 12 and 13 days to contain subsea blowouts, but one environmental group is concerned the capping stack won’t be housed here. The timeframe is shorter than the original 21-day plan, but still falls short of the U.S. requirement of 24 hours for drilling in the waters off Alaska. Shell Canada would also have to deploy a second capping stack as a contingency plan.,, Read the rest here 09:53
Mobile clean-up opportunity presented to Shell as alternative to dispersants
As the clock ticks down to the final decision of the Canada Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (NSOPB) on Shell Canada’s proposed drilling program in the Shelburne Basin, the calls are getting louder from the fishing industry and communities along Nova Scotia’s south shore for regulators to put some environmental teeth in the company’s emergency response plan in the event of an oil spill on the southwestern Scotian Shelf. Read the rest here 21:08
Shell pleased with early seismic data – Company doing 3D mapping of Shelburne Basin
That data, gathered over 88 days of exploration, is very preliminary, said Lalonde. It covers about 10,000 square kilometres of the basin and will take the better part of a year to process. “We probably will not have a clearer picture until about May,” he said. But at that point, Shell will be much closer to its goal of identifying prime locations to drill wells sometime in the second quarter of 2015, said Lalonde. more@chronicleherald 08:45
