...she remained concerned that the plan sets up hurdles for pipelines carrying oil drilled offshore in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas to the trans-Alaska pipeline. Salazar should make it clear, she said, that future environmental review of potential...
...Chukchi and Beaufort Sea federal offshore areas where the company began exploration wells. Those wells, one in the Chukchi Sea and one in the Beaufort Sea, were only partially-drilled. They will be completed in 2013, along with other wells...
...Corp., experienced a separate set of problems, starting with a vibration its propulsion system after leaving the Chukchi Sea in early November. The vessel was inspected in the Aleutian Islands port of Dutch Harbor and the vibration problem...
...for two exploratory wells by the Kulluk in the Beaufort Sea and three exploratory wells by the Noble Discoverer in the Chukchi Sea and, sometime in the future, a pipeline link to the trans-Alaska pipeline. Shell in 2008 spent $2.1 billion...
...605 votes.Ahpun, 14, has been at the zoo since she was 3 months old. She was found orphaned near Point Lay on the Chukchi Sea coast about 700 miles northwest of Anchorage.She weighs about 700 pounds but isn't the biggest bear in her own cage...
...as temperatures warm each summer, live on the sea ice edge as it moves north through the Bering Strait and into the Chukchi Sea. The ice provides a sanctuary for nursing walrus calves and an ever-changing diving platform for females that hunt...
...manager of government affairs spoke to the roller coaster summer his company has had trying to begin exploration in the Chukchi Sea saying that they won't be drilling to hydrocarbon depths this year but they have successfully begun their first wells...
...Committee said she has worked for the past six years to help companies that hold leases for exploration in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas to get permits to work there. "Offering up leases is one thing, making sure companies receive the permits they need...
...in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the National Petroleum Reserve -- Alaska and offshore in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.Both tax reform and our energy future are top priorities for me and both deserve the Senate's immediate attention...
...Reserve-Alaska. "I believe that by this time next year we'll see exploration under way in either the Beaufort Sea, the Chukchi Sea or the National Petroleum Reserve, or in more than one of these areas," Begich said. Arctic offshore exploration...
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