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Exit|4 of 4 in Exxon & Shell
walk-backenergy·1989 / unsealed 1996

Shell raising North Sea drilling platforms by one meter

The Public Register1996
Shell Norway PRpublic relations, Press briefing on offshore engineering
Our offshore installations are engineered with conservative safety margins against natural North Sea wave height fluctuations.
The Private Artifact1989
Shell / Statoil Troll Engineering Teamoffshore engineering consortium, Troll Gas Field Specification Documents
An extra one meter of platform air gap above high-tide level is incorporated specifically to mitigate projected 100-year sea level rise resulting from global greenhouse warming.
Exhibit: Troll_Engineering_Spec_1989

The Split:Publicly, platform elevations were described as routine wave-height margins. Privately, Shell spent millions raising the physical concrete deck of the gigantic Troll platform by a meter explicitly to survive the sea level rise it claimed in court was unproven.

The Tell (How to spot this next time):

Watch what companies pour concrete for, not what they file in lobbying whitepapers.

journalism-archive pipeNorwegian engineering archives uncovered by De Correspondent.