Oil Drilling Rig Runs Aground In Gulf Of Alaska


The drilling supply Kulluk, seen here in 2010, is specifically built to work in a Arctic Ocean. Its turn figure deflects ice floating in a water.Enlarge image i

The drilling supply Kulluk, seen here in 2010, is specifically built to work in a Arctic Ocean. Its turn figure deflects ice floating in a water.


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The drilling supply Kulluk, seen here in 2010, is specifically built to work in a Arctic Ocean. Its turn figure deflects ice floating in a water.

The drilling supply Kulluk, seen here in 2010, is specifically built to work in a Arctic Ocean. Its turn figure deflects ice floating in a water.

Jeff Brady/NPR

An oil drilling supply holding some-more than 160,000 gallons of diesel, oil, and hydraulic liquid has run aground nearby Kodiak Island in a Gulf of Alaska, after violation divided while being towed during a storm. The organisation was evacuated before a supply was incapacitated.

“The supply ran aground in a storm, with waves adult to 35 feet and breeze to 70 miles per hour,” reports Jeff Brady, on NPR’s Newscast. The supply is “about 250 miles south of Anchorage,” Jeff says.

“The Coast Guard pronounced a Kulluk grounded around 9 p.m. Monday on a southeast side of Sitkalidak Island in Ocean Bay,” reports Alaska’s KTUU Channel 2. Sitkalidak is a tiny island that lies only south of Kodiak Island.

It will expected be several hours before a Coast Guard can guess a border of a repairs — a organisation will send aircraft to consult a area during initial light Tuesday.

Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s Kulluk supply is built generally for a Alaskan gulf, as Darci Sinclair of Shell tells Jeff.

“It’s a turn boat and a diesel fuel tanks are located during a center, encased in unequivocally complicated steel,” Sinclair says. “But it’s unequivocally too shortly to know if there was any repairs to a ship.”

The supply has been in difficulty given Thursday, when a boat towing it suffered an engine failure; in a apart incident, a draw line snapped, as Alaska Public Radio reports. One day later, a “unified command” organisation was assembled, done adult of members of a Coast Guard and member of a state, tribal, and sovereign governments.

The rig’s 18 organisation members were taken off a vessel Saturday; a conditions run-down on New Year’s Eve, as a absolute charge changed into a area.

Source: Health Medicine Network