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BY BEN LEFEBVRE
Royal Dutch Shell PLC and emergency responders are preparing to send a salvage crew to an oil rig that ran aground this week off the southern coast of Alaska.
Cold weather and high waves had prevented crews from boarding the Kulluk, a drilling rig owned by Shell and operated by Switzerland-based contract driller Noble Corp. The drillship struck Sitkalidak Island, an uninhabited area about 300 miles southwest of Anchorage in the Gulf of Alaska near the Pacific Ocean, late Monday.
Aerial inspections were to run throughout Wednesday to examine the rig, Shell and the U.S. Coast Guard said. The weather ...
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