ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- 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 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — No damage has been found on a Shell Oil drilling ship that lost its mooring in Alaska’s Dutch Harbor, the Coast Guard said Tuesday. Coast Guard Lt. Jim Fothergill said video ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

In some other news, new oil drilling could begin off the coast of Alaska this summer. The Department of the Interior has given conditional approval for Shell Oil to drill in the Arctic. The company's ...

Recently announced plans by Shell to sell its oil and gas development project in Routt and Moffat counties have no bearing on its oil shale research and development efforts in Rio Blanco County, a ...

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 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A small fire, caused by an explosion, broke out Friday on a drill ship used by Royal Dutch Shell to explore for oil in Alaska's remote Chukchi Sea, company and harbor ...