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Shell Drops Offshore Oil Drilling In Beaufort Sea for 2011

Press Release | February 3, 2011
Peter Voser, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, today announced that the oil giant has abandoned plans for exploratory drilling in Alaska's Beaufort Sea in 2011. Despite the...