Kulluk on its way to Asia for repair - March 31, 2013

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industryMarch 2013

Vol. 18, No. 13

Week of March 31, 2013

Kulluk on its way to Asia for repair

The Kulluk, Shell’s Arctic floating drilling platform, has been loaded onto the heavy-lift vessel Xiang Rui Kou and departed Dutch Harbor at 11:00 a.m. on March 27, bound for shipyard in Singapore for repair, Shell spokeswoman Megan Baldino told Petroleum News by email following the Kulluk’s departure. D

The Kulluk had been damaged during a grounding on the south side of Kodiak Island during a storm on Dec. 31. The vessel was subsequently refloated, inspected and towed to Dutch Harbor to await transportation to Asia.

The drillship Noble Discoverer that Shell is using in the Alaska Arctic is also being carried to Asia by a heavy-lift vessel for repair.

Shell has deferred its planned 2013 Arctic Alaska drilling operations while the company regroups, following a series of mishaps related to its 2012 drilling program.

—Alan Bailey

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