According to Defenders of Wildlife, a US NGO, an oil spill in Alaska's North Slope could be the largest crude oil spill since drilling began in the area 30 years ago – second in Alaska only to the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Response crews are continuing cleanup and recovery work nearly two months after a drilling rig was damaged during a move on Alaska’s western North Slope, with most of the ...

Santos started development planning in the Quokka Unit on Alaska’s North Slope. The Quokka-1 appraisal well encountered a high-quality reservoir in the Nanushuk formation. Santos has started ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 5—Oil companies on Friday once again showed little interest in the latest lease sale for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ...

FILE - In this undated photo provided by the United States Geological Survey, permafrost forms a grid-like pattern in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, managed by the Bureau of Land Management on ...

It’s past midnight in June, 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle. As I walk around Deadhorse, Alaska, the settlement adjacent to the Prudhoe Bay oil field on the Arctic Coast, I grasp for the first ...

As major oil companies eye new drilling on Alaska’s North Slope, the Trump administration is now working to accelerate their projects by streamlining environmental reviews on federal land. It’s a move ...

The Interior Department is holding its first lease sale under President Donald Trump’s second term in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, selling off tracts of land for potential drilling ...