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...they pounced - saying the incident foreshadowed what will happen north of the Bering Strait if drilling is allowed.For oil giant Shell, which leads the way in drilling in the frontier waters of the U.S Arctic, a spokesman said the incident will...
...Alaska Natives. Their lawsuits and permit appeals have prevented Shell Oil from drilling in the Chukchi Sea, where the oil giant spent $2.1 billion on leases in 2008. Shell also holds older leases in the Beaufort Sea and hopes to drill exploratory...
ANCHORAGE - A state Senate candidate has released a list of his civil engineering firm's clients that show oil giant BP as the biggest client.Bob Bell says that will not influence how he votes if he's elected.Bell, founder and chief executive...
...A day of reckoning arrived for BP on Thursday as the oil giant agreed to plead guilty to a raft of criminal charges and...appears to be well within BP's means, considering the oil giant made a record $25.8 billion in profits last year...
...northwest shore in 2008, the last time federal waters in Alaska were auctioned off. But nearly four years later, the oil giant has yet to drill an exploratory well because of lawsuits brought by environmental groups and delays in its air pollution...
ANCHORAGE - A federal judge is deciding whether oil giant BP deserves new penalties for a spill at a production center on the North Slope in November 2009.The case argued in federal court...
...be the year Shell Oil begins large-scale offshore exploratory drilling in Arctic waters?Two months into 2012, the oil giant is beyond the lead time it said it needed to assemble the flotilla of support vessels that must accompany drill ships...
U.S. Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., told oil giants BP, ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil his natural gas export bills now in Congress would block a proposed $40 billion pipeline to...
...new tankers in coming months. Exxon worked a deal with a San Diego shipyard in 2003 to design a new tanker, but the oil giant hasn't placed an order for a ship. Because BP has added new ships to its fleet, it no longer needs the Kenai, built...
...Wednesday, with Gov. Frank Murkowski filing two familiar bills related to his natural gas pipeline deal with three oil giants. Sound off on the important issues at The Republican governor for the third time this year introduced a bill replacing...