Feds take public comment on Hilcorp’s offshore Liberty project

A 2013 BOEM map shows the location of the Liberty project when it was controlled by BP. (Courtesy of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management)
Shell may have given up on drilling off Alaska’s coast, but federal regulators are now taking public comment on another — though very different — offshore drilling proposal.
Hilcorp’s proposed Liberty project would build an island in 19 feet of water in the Beaufort Sea near Deadhorse. The site is about five and a half miles offshore.