Shell's drillship Noble Discoverer is scheduled to arrive at the drill site in the Chukchi Sea on August 31, 2012. (Photo courtesy U.S. Coast Guard) WASHINGTON, DC, August 30, 2012 (ENS) – The Obama ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell is seeking permission to extend its Arctic drilling season as it struggles with the logistics of exploring untapped oil reserves beneath icy waters off ...

(AP) There’s no indication of a fuel leak from a petroleum drilling vessel that ran aground on a remote Alaska island, the Coast Guard said of a maritime accident that has refueled debate over oil ...

Late this month, as Royal Dutch Shell PLC begins to wrap up its controversial Arctic drilling operation, company officials are expected to let the world know whether they’ve discovered crude at their ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — More than four years after Royal Dutch Shell paid $2.8 billion to the federal government for petroleum leases in the Chukchi Sea, a company vessel on Sunday morning sent a drill ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Environmental and Alaska Native groups have filed a legal challenge seeking to overturn U.S. approval of Royal Dutch Shell Plc's plans to drill up to three wells ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Moving ice may keep a Royal Dutch Shell petroleum drill ship away from a Chukchi Sea prospect for several days, a Shell Alaska spokesman said Tuesday. Curtis Smith said at ...

Shell will kick-off a new exploration drilling drive in 2026 on its geologically complex licence in Namibia’s Orange basin in a fresh effort to find commercial volumes of oil, according to the ...