ANCHORAGE — Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s foray into Arctic offshore drilling suffered a serious setback Monday night when one of its two Alaska drilling rigs ran aground in shallow water off ...

Greenpeace spokesman Nathan Argent said the ship was due to drill five exploratory wells ... environmentally responsible exploration in shallow water off the coast of Alaska," the company said.

Sitkalidak is on the southeast side of Kodiak Island. About 4:15 p.m., the drill ship separated from the Aiviq about 10 to 15 miles off shore and grounding was inevitable, Coast Guard Cmdr.

Shallow discoveries are fewer and farther between because most of the sweet spots have already been found. So as exploration gets deeper, so too must the drilling rigs, and they have to be more ...

From the air, the Arctic drill ship Kulluk looks like a giant bowling pin seated on a shallow bowl. With the centerpiece of the ship, the 160-foot derrick, Shell Oil hopes to send down drill bits ...

Figure 1 shows the SURTASS SWATH ship. Until 1990, the Navy regarded the shallow water regional threat as a low priority. The former Soviet Union was the primary submarine threat to the United States.

The Interior Department denied Thursday that it has extended a drilling freeze to shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico, contradicting an e-mail written earlier in the day by the Minerals ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 20 (Reuters) - Brazilian oil firm Petrobras (PETR4.SA), opens new tab will have a drill ship ready to make the trip to the northern state of Amapa by the end of the month ...

Television actress Lucy Lawless climbed aboard an oil-drilling ship Friday in New Zealand ... environmentally responsible exploration in shallow water off the coast of Alaska," the company ...