Kulluk Scheduled to Depart Tuesday
Monday, March 25 2013
Pipa Escalante/KUCB
After three weeks in port, Shell’s Kulluk drill rig is set to leave Unalaska tomorrow.
The rig has been loaded on the Xiang Rui Kou heavy lift ship in Captains Bay. Coast Guard Lt. Jim Fothergill says the vessels are scheduled to leave at 10 p.m. Tuesday night. That was pushed back from today.
Fothergill wouldn’t say why the plan changed, but he says efforts to secure the rig are still going well. Once they leave Unalaska, the vessels are bound for Singapore, where the Kulluk will be repaired.
Robert Mutter on Tuesday, March 26 2013:
Thank you for you excellent coverage of the Kulluk
affair. There has been, not surprisingly, little said
by Shell, and the Coast Guard have stopped commenting on it all together, it seems.....