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Vol. 16, No. 31 Week of July 31, 2011
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry


Facing the Arctic spill response issues

Shell says it is fully prepared and self-sufficient; USCG says it has no Arctic resources and depends on regulated industry

Alan Bailey

Petroleum News

The federal government does not have assets in place in Arctic Alaska to conduct an offshore oil spill response, were industry spill response contingency plans to prove inadequate in dealing with an oil spill accident, Admiral Robert Papp, commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, told the U.S. Senate Sub....

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