A former contractor who helped assemble Doyon Drilling Rig 26 — or "The Beast" as it's known as — described the project as a ...

The rig dubbed “The Beast” crashed to the ground while being moved Friday amid an ongoing winter exploration program in the ...

Oil drilling rig Doyon 26 topples on Alaska’s North Slope during move; fire contained. Find the latest news from the maritime industry on the PortNews website.

Alaskans today are grappling with an unclear future that is balanced between the impacts of a warming climate and the strain of depleting fisheries. What is clear is that a ...

As response teams continued Tuesday to evaluate Royal Dutch Shell's once-grounded oil drilling rig, the Coast Guard, the Obama administration and U.S. Sen. Mark Begich all announced investigations or ...

A Shell drilling rig began work on the ocean floor off northern Alaska on Sunday, the first time the company has drilled in the area in more than 20 years, NBC News reported on Sunday. The company ...

The Coast Guard found serious safety & environmental violations on 'Noble Discoverer' used in Arctic waters off Alaska. The Coast Guard found 16 violations on the Noble Discoverer, one of Shell’s two ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service updated rules governing how much Arctic oil drilling can bother the Beaufort Sea’s protected polar bears. The Fish and Wildlife Service revised the rules Wednesday ...

Teshekpuk caribou graze in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Bob Wick/BLM, CC BY The largest tract of public land in the United States is a wild expanse of tundra and wetlands stretching across ...