Shell gives up on all but one Chukchi Sea lease
Royal Dutch Shell has decided to give up all but one of its federal offshore leases in the Chukchi Sea,
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OMV finds more oil in Barents Sea
This is an important milestone towards a future development of the area, the Austrian company says about its Wisting Central
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Norwegian opening for Russia’s Gazprom
Gazprom, Russia’s oil and gas giant, has swapped assets with Austrian energy firm OMV in a deal announced Friday. While
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Critics call feds’ new ‘mitigation’ a coerced fee
The concept of “mitigation” comes up a lot in stories about development in Alaska. Typically, it’s compensation a company has
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Meet President Obama’s point man for Alaska
WASHINGTON — Alaska leaders have been making use of a new Washington connection lately: the man in charge of President Barack Obama’s
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Blog: What sidelined Shell’s offshore Alaska plans
Fresh assertions that the Obama administration smothered Shell’s Arctic dreams followed the news that Statoil gave up on its leases, the second company
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U.S. cancels lease sales in Arctic Alaska
WASHINGTON — The Interior Department is canceling several lease sales for offshore Arctic drilling for the 2012-17 period, citing diminished interest.
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Shell’s failure latest in series of Arctic flops
After pouring billions of dollars into offshore Arctic leases and a complicated drilling program that used the latest available technology,
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Why Shell is sticking to Chukchi plans
Despite tumbling oil prices, rising costs, legal woes, heated political opposition and a series of missteps and misadventures, Royal Dutch
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Politics, pot & polar ice – Arctic week in review
On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this
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U.S. Coast Guard gears up for Shell’s Chukchi season
As Shell gears up to drill in the Chukchi Sea this summer, the Coast Guard is getting ready, too. At
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Shell vessel damaged in Alaska waters uncharted since 1935
Federal hydrographic surveyors announced Monday that a preliminary review of the area where a Shell icebreaker was reportedly gouged found multiple, relatively shallow areas
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Alaska: Shoal found where Shell ship was gouged
The U.S. Coast Guard announced Thursday that hydrographic surveyors discovered a previously uncharted shoal in the area where a key
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Shell icebreaker damaged, returns to port
In another hurdle for Royal Dutch Shell’s Arctic drilling program, an ice-handling vessel playing a key role in the operation has
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Blog: Back to the future – An Arctic conference in 1979
On a dusty shelf in the library at my university, I came across a volume entitled Marine Transportation and High
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