After a year on ice, Shell looks to Arctic drilling

Published January 24, 2014 5:00am ET



Environmental groups plan to pressure the White House to block offshore drilling in the Arctic as Royal Dutch Shell gears up to start drilling there this summer.

Shell, which was awarded the first U.S. lease to drill in the Arctic, has submitted a revised plan to the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to finish one exploratory well and start four others in the Chukchi Sea northwest of Alaska following a series of blunders in 2012 that put its Arctic efforts on ice. But the bureau said in a Jan. 14 letter to Shell that it still has concerns about how the company would manage “deficiencies” in oversight and management like it experienced in 2012.

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