Faced with iced-in Arctic waters and failure to secure U.S. Coast Guard approval of its oil-spill barge, Royal Dutch Shell* is ratcheting down its plan to drill as many as five exploratory wells this ...
Shell ended 2012 the way it carried itself the entire year: with utter incompetence. From The New York Times: One of Shell Oil’s two Arctic drilling rigs is beached on an island in the Gulf of Alaska, ...