Greenhouse gas would be transported to the Shell-operated Goldeneye gas field in the North Sea using, as far as possible, existing pipeline infrastructure.
Shortly prior to its ceasefire announcement MEND had carried out its boldest attack against Nigeria's oil installations since it launched its campaign of violence in late 2005, when an attack on Shell's Bongo facility, 120km out to sea, forced the Anglo-Dutch major temporarily to halt production equivalent to about 10% of Nigeria's output, and to declare force majeure.
The protagonist in The Sea is not a simple fellow, however - I assume the simple prose is used to compare the hollow shell that grief has made of Max Morden with the naive beauty of the young boy he once was.
Shell had planned to have six new wells fully drilled in the Chuckchi Sea (Alaska) before year-end, but snafus when it tested spill containment equipment and the onset of the winter freeze left it with no wells completed.