In October, 2015, Shell began drilling the first of two deep-water wells in the Shelburne Basin, about 250 kilometres offshore Nova Scotia. In January, 2016, Nova Scotia Energy Minister, Michel Samson, visited the IceMAX drillship. Read the Minister’s first-hand account of his tour.

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