ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A small fire, caused by an explosion, broke out Friday on a drill ship used by Royal Dutch Shell to explore for oil in Alaska's remote Chukchi Sea, company and harbor ...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — The woman who had been hanging off the anchor chain of a support ship that is part of Royal Dutch Shell’s plans to explore for oil in the Arctic Ocean ended her dayslong ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- An inspection of a Shell drilling ship that lost its mooring and drifted toward shore of an Alaska Island showed no signs of damage or grounding, the Coast Guard said Sunday.

(AP) A Shell oil-drilling ship that ran aground near a remote Alaska island has been refloated, officials said early Monday. Royal Dutch Shell’s Kulluk was floated from the rocks late Sunday night and ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Responders say a main tow line has been attached to a Shell oil-drilling ship that grounded on rocks near a remote Alaska island. Unified Command spokesman Ignacio Gonzalez ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Members of Congress are calling for an investigation into a Royal Dutch Shell PLC drilling vessel that ran aground on a Gulf of Alaska island.

In some other news, new oil drilling could begin off the coast of Alaska this summer. The Department of the Interior has given conditional approval for Shell Oil to drill in the Arctic. The company's ...