As dispatches from foreign news agencies report, France energy giant tatol (no4 amongst said, energy company should not in the arctic sea drilling crude oil, because the region for environmental sensitive area, oil spill risk is too high.
Tatol chief executive MaZheRui (Christophede Margerie) says, in such environment sensitive areas, oil spill risk is too high. "Greenland oil leakage would be a disaster," he said in an interview, "oil leakage to the company's image cause too big effect."
Recently, Royal Dutch shell (Royal DutchShell) was forced to suspend drilling Alaska 20 years the first one mouthful oil well, after a safety equipment in testing badly damaged. The company for preparation of drilling has been spending $4.5 billion, spent seven years. In addition, Exxon Mobil (Exxon Mobil), Italy oil company Eni (Eni) and Norway's state oil company (Statoil) have signed an agreement in the Russian arctic sea oil exploration and other enterprises are obtained in Greenland near offshore drilling oil license.
Total in the area have a lot of natural gas business, including in Russia Barents sea huge assorted toch mann (Shtokman) gas field part of equity. MaZheRui said, relative to the oil leakage, gas leakage treatment up relatively easy.
According to the U.S. geological survey a survey in 2008, the arctic has the world not proven recoverable oil and gas resources of a little more than one 5. The arctic ice cap melts for large oil enterprise easier than ever to enter the area.