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OVERSIGHT When fully operational in a decade, the industry could be drilling hundreds of wells a year.

Captain Shaw said he is looking into leasing an airplane hangar in the region's biggest city, Barrow, for the summer season, when Shell could be drilling.

"They could be drilling directly under your well and threatening your groundwater," said Wes Gillingham, the program director for the environmental group Catskill Mountainkeeper.

Shell could be drilling at the same time Obama visits Alaska, in late August, as part of a trip to promote those plans.

In addition, no new wells could be drilled.

Hundreds of thousands of wells could be drilled in the region in the next few decades.

Another 48,000 wells could be drilled over the next 20 years.

The company's president, Ralph Gailey, said the wells were compatible with monument environmental values and could be drilled responsibly.

He said containing most of the escaping oil until a relief well could be drilled was "not a bad outcome compared to where we are today".

The company's repeated attempts to stop the flow had failed and August – the earliest the first relief well could be drilled – seemed a lifetime away.

Providence Resources said that the area could be drilled from an onshore location, with high level potential surface well locations currently being evaluated.