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 ...

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, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On New Year’s Eve, 2012, Royal Dutch Shell’s Kulluk drilling platform ran aground off a southern Alaskan island called Sitkalidak. Last week, the U.S. Coast Guard released a 152-page report dissecting ...

Shell has been accused by the US Coast Guard of ignoring safety warnings and moving one of its drill ships in the US Arctic, partly in a bid to avoid paying extra taxes. The damning allegation is ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS -- The Coast Guard is responding to a crude oil spill from that reportedly discharged from a Shell subsea well-head flow line, approximately 90 miles south of Timbalier Island, Louisiana, ...

“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 ...