...to start their journey to the Arctic this week.When the Shell ships arrive in the Arctic to begin boring five exploratory oil wells, the environmental group will be there, the Kodiak Daily Mirror reported .Shell Oil spokesman Curtis Smith said...

...the U.S. Mineral Management Service's decision earlier this year to allow the energy giant to drill up to 12 exploratory oil wells in the Beaufort Sea off the northern coast of Alaska. The attorneys told a three-judge panel of the 9th U...

...the refuge. The U.S. Mineral Management Service decided this year to allow the energy giant to drill up to 12 exploratory oil wells in the Beaufort Sea off the northern coast of Alaska. At a later stop in Anderson, Thompson said other energy...

...structure to bring in new revenues. He said in the late 1980s the state established a sliding-scale tax on satellite exploratory oil wells, meaning that companies with remote oil exploration projects would pay less in severance or production taxes once...