Faced with iced-in Arctic waters and failure to secure U.S. Coast Guard approval of its oil-spill barge, Royal Dutch Shell* is ratcheting down its plan to drill as many as five exploratory wells this ...

Shell ended 2012 the way it carried itself the entire year: with utter incompetence. From The New York Times: One of Shell Oil’s two Arctic drilling rigs is beached on an island in the Gulf of Alaska, ...

Moments of optimism are rare for Shell. From time to time, she amuses herself with a mechanic her own age, though she doesn't seem truly happy with that either. The young woman realises her life is ...