ApocaDocs: Shell drilling rig grounds off Kodiak Island after towlines fail again

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Posted Tue Jan 1 2013: from Anchorage Daily News:


	Shell drilling rig grounds off Kodiak Island after towlines fail again http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1357068997 Royal Dutch Shell's Kulluk drilling rig, re-secured to two vessels with towlines early Monday, grounded around 9 p.m. in rocky water off the southern coast of Kodiak Island during a pounding Gulf of Alaska winter storm, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The vessel grounded off Sitkalidak Island, at the northern end of Ocean Bay, officials said.... The grounding was the worst development yet in a crisis that began Thursday night when the $290 million, 266-foot-diameter Kulluk first lost a towline after the mechanical failure of a shackle used to connect it to the Aiviq. Crews struggled against worsening weather and a mobile drilling unit that was unmanned with no propulsion capability of its own.

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