The Obama Administration will allow Shell to begin limited drilling off of Alaska's coast, an approval that inches the energy company closer to its fossil fuel exploration goals.

WASHINGTON — The government on Wednesday granted the first permit for a new deep-water well that hadn't been approved before last year's Gulf spill shut down such drilling - a major milestone ...

Royal Dutch Shell received final approval from the Obama administration on Wednesday to begin exploratory drilling for oil in the Arctic this summer, but with new restrictions that will alter the ...

Royal Dutch Shell is taking flack from all directions today as a team of salvage experts try to figure out how to free the $290 million Kulluk floating drilling rig that ran aground on the coast ...

WASHINGTON — Although Shell Oil Co. is scrapping its plans to drill into potential oil reservoirs underneath the Chukchi and Beaufort seas this summer because of damaged spill-containment ...

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration dealt a major blow to Shell's Arctic drilling plans Tuesday, ruling that wildlife protections bar the company from simultaneously boring two wells into the ...

Drill set to begin at 10 a.m. June 20, 2024. P OTTER TWP. ― The Shell Polymers Monaca plant has announced it will conduct an emergency response preparedness drill at 10 a.m. Thursday.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – 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 Houston ...

Shell plans to be back in the Chukchi two months from now to drill two exploratory wells. Arctic drilling was a close call back in 2012, and Shell's misadventures make it an even closer one now ...

Drilling began at 4:30 a.m., said Shell Alaska spokesman Curtis Smith. Shell Alaska vice president Pete Slaiby called it historic. "It's the first time a drill bit has touched the sea floor in ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell's quest to drill exploratory wells in Arctic waters has received a boost with the affirmation that its federal air permits for the Chukchi Sea were ...