ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Shell Oil Co. is taking the offensive against environmental groups that have put legal roadblocks in the company's path to offshore drilling in the Arctic Ocean. The ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell has secured another federal authorization as it pursues plans to drill exploration wells in the Arctic waters off the Alaska coast. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

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 ...

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 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 15 (Reuters) - One of the drill ships that Royal Dutch Shell plans to use in a controversial Arctic drilling program slipped off its moorings and drifted to the edge of shore ...

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 ...

Royal Dutch Shell intends to resume drilling in the Arctic this year after it put its program on ice following a series of mishaps in 2012, Chief Executive Officer Ben van Beurden told reporters at a ...

US oil and gas drilling operator Noble has secured a new contract worth approximately $70m from Shell for its semi-submersible rig, Noble Developer, in the Americas. The agreement, which includes ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The federal government on Monday gave Royal Dutch Shell the final permit it needs to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska’s northwest coast for the first time in more than ...