On April 3, the Coast Guard published the findings of an investigation of the grounding of Royal Dutch Shell’s drilling ship on the Alaskan coast a year and a half ago. The report found that Shell ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — No damage has been found on a Shell Oil drilling ship that lost its mooring in Alaska’s Dutch Harbor, the Coast Guard said Tuesday. Coast Guard Lt. Jim Fothergill said video ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The Coast Guard was checking reports Thursday of a 10-mile oil sheen in the Gulf of Mexico near wells operated by Shell Oil. A helicopter with a pollution officer on board was ...

Shell's drilling rig, Kulluk, ran aground off the coast of Alaska in late 2012 due to the company's "inadequate assessment and management of risks" in icy, storm-tossed waters, said the U.S. Coast ...

As Shell gears up to drill in the Chukchi Sea this summer, the Coast Guard is getting ready, too. At an Arctic symposium in Washington D.C. this morning, the head of the U.S. Coast Guard outlined the ...

A US Coast Guard investigation blames Shell Oil's complacency and risk-taking for an oil rig running aground on a remote Alaskan Island on New Year's Eve 2012. A single tugboat, the Aiviq, was towing ...

A series of problems doomed a winter tow of Royal Dutch Shell's prized Arctic drilling rig and contributed to its grounding Dec. 31, 2012, near Kodiak Island, the Coast Guard concludes in a new ...

In the event of an offshore oil spill in the Arctic, Shell has previously admitted it can only “encounter” most of the oil in the frigid, pristine waters — not clean it up. However, it may lack the ...

Two weeks from yesterday, the Kulluk, a drilling rig managed by Noble Drilling and owned by Shell, broke free of its tow lines as tug boats struggled in inclement weather to move it away from the ...

NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. Coast Guard has been sent to investigate after two people were killed Sunday morning during a routine test on a Shell oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, officials said. According to ...

An errant 155mm artillery shell fired by a Missouri Army National Guard unit training at Fort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center left the installation and landed less than 500 feet from a residence in ...

NEW ORLEANS-- About 88,200 gallons of oil have leaked from a Shell flow line into the Gulf of Mexico about 90 miles off the coast of Louisiana, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Chief Petty Officer Bobby ...