SHELL EXPLORATION COMMENT ANALYSIS Plan of Cooperation Me eting

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Operations What’s Shell ’s subsea containment system? Shell uses a blowout preventer

– two sets of shear rams that can close off the pipe in the event there is an incident. N/A

OSR In regard to Shell’s revised Environmental Impact statement, an audience member read a portion of a recent news article stating that the “likelihood of Shell having a large oil spill is high

, ” asked for comments on this. This projected likelihood is over a 75 year long span and is not specific to an exploration phase, which Shell is currently planning for. The article’s estimate takes into account that the project is in a production phase vs. exploration . We aren’t sure i f an incident will happen, regardless, we are prepared

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Fleet How many vessels are going to be in the Kotzebue Sound? There will be 4 barges and 4 tug boats in Goodhope Bay. N/A

OSR What is the response time for an oil spill? We have a vessel staged that will be deployed within 60 minutes. Within 72 hours, all OSR vessels will be in theatre. H

General Information about Shell Where can more information be found about Shell

– press releases, etc.? A good spot to find information about Shell is on our website, www.shell.com/alaska. N/A

OSR/Subsis
tence What’s going to happen if Shell contaminates the ocean? People in Kotzebue depend on marine mammals for subsistence

. While Shell does have incre ased activity in Kotzebue Sound, we will not be exploring in Kotzebue Sound

. If there were to b e an incident, Shell has gone far beyond any oil company in Alaska with oil spill response

. Our response plans are unprecedented. N/A

Subsistence How are fishermen going to be affected by the vessel traffic? T hrough the Subsistence Advisor program, Shell will have a subsistence advisor report ing twice a day to Shell regarding
any subsistence activity in the Kotzebue Sound. Based off of these daily reports, A, ESHELL EXPLORATION COMMENT ANALYSIS Plan of Cooperation Me eting

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Shell will do our best to avoid any area s where subsis tence activity is occurring

. General Information about Shell Does Shell have a website about some of the studies you have done, like those with the migratory whale’s path, etc. ? The NOAA website is a good resource for information like this. N/A

Operations What’s the current depth you will be dril l ing in? The depth of water at our Burger site is 13 0 feet. N/A

Public Comments taken during Meeting What’s happening with all the public comments? We are taking notes of comments made during this meeting

. However, w e are not attributing specific names of those making the comments

. We then submit those comments to our regulators, so they can see what the communities are telling Shell. C

OSR In the 6 hours that the oil will be leaking, it will take 6 hours to get to the drill site, where would the oil go? The response time is within 1 hour timeframe. I t depends on the weather

– currents and waves

– we will also have ice overflights to monitor the incident should

one occur

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Notes:
*Mitigation Measures are only assigned to applicable comments. “Not applicable” (N/A) is used to designate comments that do not require mitigation measures as a course of action. See Mitigation Measures Index definitions according to assigned letter.
Proposed Mitigation Measures

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- Communication Plan for avoiding conflicts with subsistence users. B

- Collaboration and Communication with Whaling Associations C

- Plan of Cooperation (will work to obtain a CAA) D

- Will honor Camden Bay blackout dates for Nuiqsut and Kaktovik whaling. E

- Subsistence Advisors based in Chukchi Sea Villages and Kotzebue F

- Protected Species Observers G

- Robust Marine Mammal Monitoring Protocol H

- OSR support vessels on standby 24/ 7 near drilling location I

- Real time Ice and Weather Forecasting J

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- zero discharge in Camden Bay of the Beaufort Sea: drilling fluids and cuttings after the 26

- in casing; gray and treated black waters; bilge and ballast waters