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Shell drilling vessels leave Arctic waters after company ends oil exploration off Alaska

Shell spent $7B on Arctic offshore exploration ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Vessels used by Royal Dutch Shell PLC to drill for oil off Alaska have safely departed Arctic waters. The company announced Sept. 28 it would cease further exploration in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas after spending upward of $7 billion on Arctic offshore exploration. Disappointing results from […]

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Shell Arctic offshore drilling cancellation could be devastating for Alaska

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Shell Arctic offshore drilling plan pulled due to poor results ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Royal Dutch Shell’s dry hole in the Chukchi Sea may be disappointing to shareholders, but it’s potentially devastating to Alaska. The company’s decision to end oil exploration in offshore Alaska for the foreseeable future means the state must find another source to fill the

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Progress made in Shell Arctic offshore drilling: Shell President

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Shell Arctic offshore drilling to confirm massive oil field ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The president of Shell Oil Co. says exploratory drilling off Alaska’s northwest coast is going well despite stormy weather last week that caused the company to halt operations for a few days. Marvin Odum told The Associated Press safety will be the overriding determinant of

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Shell Arctic drilling decision required careful evaluation of risks: CEO

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Shell Arctic drilling carries ‘increased risk profile’ LONDON – The CEO of Royal Dutch Shell says he decided to drill for oil off the coast of Alaska after a careful evaluation of the risks. In an interview with the BBC broadcast Wednesday, Ben van Beurden says that although drilling in the Arctic carries an “increased risk profile” because of

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Shell applies to drill into deep US Arctic waters petroleum zones with icebreaker fixed

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Shell initially denied access petroleum zones 8,000 feet below ocean floor ANCHORAGE, Alaska – With a key safety vessel repaired and in northern waters, Royal Dutch Shell PLC has applied to amend its federal exploratory drilling permit to allow drilling into oil-bearing rock in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska’s northwest coast. Shell last month received permission to begin some

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Shell Arctic drilling fleet heads to Alaska, company awaits final permits

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Shell Arctic drilling opponents question process ANCHORAGE, Alaska – One Royal Dutch Shell offshore drill rig is headed to Alaska and a second is poised to leave, despite lacking final federal permits that would allow exploratory drilling and possible confirmation of rich oil reserves under the Chukchi Sea. A spokesman for Royal Dutch Shell PLC said that’s routine.

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Shell protestors attached to Arctic drilling ship removed by Coast Guard

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Shell protestors removed from ship docked in Bellingham port Two activists spent about six hours Friday suspended from the anchor chain of a Royal Dutch Shell support ship docked north of Seattle to protest the petroleum giant’s plans to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean. The protesters sitting in cloth slings attached themselves around 3:30

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Arctic offshore drilling: Environmental groups sue BOEM

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Companies not equipped for disaster in Arctic offshore drilling: Opponents Ten environmental groups Tuesday sued a federal agency over its approval of a plan by Royal Dutch Shell PLC for exploratory petroleum drilling off Alaska’s northwest coast. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management last month signed off on Shell’s exploratory drilling plan in the Chukchi Sea, which

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Shell says Arctic drill rig work continues despite protests

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City of Seattle, environmentalists try to halt staging of Arctic drill rig Neither a protest by hundreds of demonstrators nor a permit violation notice from the city will halt Royal Dutch Shell’s use of a Seattle seaport terminal as it prepares for exploratory oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean, spokesmen say. The violation notice issued

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Arctic drilling protests at Seattle port to stop Shell rig work

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Arctic drilling platform staged in Seattle Critics of Arctic drilling plan to block the gates to a seaport terminal in Seattle, where Royal Dutch Shell’s massive floating drill rig will be loaded up before heading to the waters off Alaska this summer. A few hundred protesters marched across a bridge to Terminal 5, temporarily closing the

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