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This ship right here pulled into portland under the cover of darkness you see the lights gleaming in the darkness there. that's a shell oil icebreaking. it's key to shell's efforts to try to drill the arctic for oil this summer. this is an icebreaking ship. it breaks ice, but it also holds something called the capping stack, which would be needed as a xom uponant of the emergency spill response if shell's argument ig oil drilling resulted in a well blowout or some. shell has been poised to start drilling the arctic any day now. as it prepared to start the drilling process, this icebreaker was ...

As it prepared to start the drilling process, this icebreaker was heading out to the drilling site where it was docked in alaska, this ship somehow sprung a three-foot leak. it had a three-foot-long hull ripped into the hull somehow, and forced it to return to shore. it happened earlier this month. when that befell that icebreaker, shell announced that icebreaker would have to head all the way down to portland, oregon, to get necessary repairs. that was a big deal. it turns out the trip from alaska, where this icebreaker sprung its leak, the trip from that part of alaska to portland took 12 da...

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Point. we don't know what caused the fire, whether there is a spill, conflicting reports on that. let's talk about what we do know. about 102 miles off the coast here, this is what it looked like when this explosion happened out there. this is a production rig. not an exploratory well, a drilling rig like we talked about with bp. that's important and i'll explain why in just a minute, bus this involved producing oil from a series of wells beneath the surface. that's a much more closed environment, an environment much more controlled than you have in a drilling process where they are still expl...

Does have integrity and could be kept shut in. obviously that's the best case we're looking at because no oil is flowing into the gulf of mexico. and conceivably, it could remain that case up until bp has the first relief well completed. >> worst-case scenario? >> well, that's not so good. now, as david was explaining, they're trying to determine whether or not the well has any breaches in it. and if it has any leaks, it's decided the well does not have integrity, there could be a problem. they've got to open up the valves, start producing again the oil flowing into the gulf of mexico. >> okay...