ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Shell Oil drill vessels are heading to the Arctic. But they will not be permitted to drill into petroleum-bearing rock until a key piece of blowout response equipment, a ...

You major as a Geomechanics specialist. What does this mean? Geomechanics is the study of rock properties with its associated stresses and pressures which sometimes results in the deformation of the ...

Testing of Shell’s proposed Arctic-ready capping stack system was supervised this week by the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) in Puget Sound, BSEE Director Brian Salerno ...

The Spanish explorer temporarily pulled the plug on its Alaskan exploration activities in February when the Repsol-operated Qugruk 2 (Q2) well hit a shallow methane gas pocket while drilling near the ...