The State Oceanic Administration said this week that it asked the company to give a comprehensive assessment report on the cleanup process of the oily mud with details on the spill area, including the cleaned and to-be-cleaned parts of the bay, China Daily reported.
This is rather than criss-crossing and diverging from each other causing many to spill beyond the target area.
Obviously, one of the things that we discussed with the President this morning, you have shipping channels that could soon -- the area of the spill could soon be in a very large shipping channel, and the ramifications that may or may not have as well.
"I think our focus right now is, one, the area, the spill, and two, also to ultimately determine the cause of it and see the impact that that ultimately may or may not have, " he said, noting that Obama's announcement was the beginning, and not the end, of a longer process.
Officials formally declared an end to the oil spill disaster on September 19, though considerable efforts remained to clean up area waters and revive wildlife affected by the spill.
If an oil spill is small enough, animals can leave the area.
She also suggested that exploiting oil reserves in the area was not a realistic option as a spill would be an ecological disaster without access to logistical support from Argentina.
Eskimo activist Caroline Cannon, one of Shell's toughest critics, said she fears a spill from the Kulluk could harm fish and wildlife in the area.
The plan still requires three levels of state and federal permits before the path will be clear for the area's first new drilling since a major oil spill in 1969.
The oil spill has also rejuvenated a campaign by environmental groups and native coastal villagers to reduce the area of the Arctic open to oil exploration and overhaul drilling regulations.
It is from this staging area and 16 others like it all across the Gulf Coast that our response to the oil spill is being carried out.
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The area is along the northern reaches of Barataria Bay, which was heavily affected by oil from the BP spill in 2010.
Of course, after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, this is not the most propitious climate for deepwater drilling, particularly in an area routinely described as pristine.
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