SEATTLE — A Coast Guard investigation into the 2012 grounding of the Kulluk, an offshore drilling rig operated by Royal Dutch Shell in the harsh Arctic, blasted the oil company for legal violations, ...
Authorities haven’t been able to land people on the Shell rig Kulluk for a more extensive look because of the challenging marine winter weather, Coast Guard Captain Paul Mehler said. Based on ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON - Coast Guard officials took advantage of a break in fierce winds and high seas on Wednesday to put a salvage crew on Shell's grounded Arctic drilling rig, as new questions surfaced about ...
The federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and the Coast Guard have responded to a report of a fire on Shell's Enchilada platform, about 112 nautical miles south of Vermilion Bay, ...
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 ...
“I’ve been working this case relatively nonstop since the 27th.” Petty Officer First Class David Mosley didn’t sound all that tired when I spoke with him yesterday, but, then, he’s a public affairs ...