Shell Oil's containment system to control a well blowout

(Animation video courtesy of Shell Offshore Inc.). The company, which hopes to drill an exploration oil well in the Beaufort Sea off the northern coast of Alaska in 2011, told media Oct. 5 that it's committed to engineering "an oil spill containment system" that's "designed to capture hydrocarbons at the source in the extremely unlikely event of a shallow water blowout."

"The containment system will remain staged in Alaska," Shell said in a statement, "and allow for rapid, on-site recovery for shallow offshore wells in extremely cold water."

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