STOCKHOLM — Following criticism by Greenpeace, Greenland's government on Monday decided to release Cairn Energy PLC's oil spill plan for its deepwater drilling in the Arctic.
STOCKHOLM — Following criticism by Greenpeace, Greenland's government on Monday decided to release Cairn Energy PLC's oil spill plan for its deepwater drilling in the Arctic.
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Greenland's government published the Scottish oil company's contingency plan on this website http://bit.ly/r6ltfh, saying it had listened into the public's wish for such information.
Joern Skov Nielsen, deputy minister at Greenland's Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum, said the document contains plans on how to deal with potential oil spills of all sizes and icebergs and other threats in the Arctic waters.
"One of the worst cases they are looking into is a 5,000 barrel-a-day spill, and the oil spill plan certainly demonstrates that they can handle more than the double of that within the resources described in the plan," Skov Nielsen said at a conference call. He said Cairn's cooperation in a global oil spill network means the company can handle "much larger spills than that."
Greenpeace has said oil drilling presents a threat to the fragile Arctic environment and criticized Cairn for not taking the extra precautions needed to avoid accidents such as the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, where BP's well spewed out up to 57,000 barrels of oil a day.
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