More than 20 years after the last drill bit went into the Chukchi Sea floor off northern Alaska, a Shell drilling rig on Sunday began work that the company hopes will lead to a bonanza that adds to ...

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 ...

JUNEAU, Alaska - A key federal agency gave conditional approval Thursday to Shell Oil Co.'s plans to begin drilling in Arctic waters off Alaska's coast as early as next year. Approval by the U.S.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell has won two critical permits it needs to drill in Arctic waters off Alaska in the next two years, federal officials said on Monday. The U.S.

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 ...