Damage to Shell's Mars tension-leg platform in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico looks to be less severe than the operator initially expected, but the supermajor is not budging from its aim of restoring ...

HOUSTON, March 28 (Reuters) - Shell Oil Co. has finished reinstalling a drilling rig on its Mars platform that was damaged during Hurricane Katrina, the company said Wednesday. The rig, on the ...

Heerema Marine Contractors has received a notice of award from Shell for support work on Shell Mars Platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The project is scheduled for November this year. Heerema Marine ...

As previously announced, Shell plans to shut down its Mars tension leg platform (TLP) late in the first quarter of 2005 to replace the flexjoints on both its oil and natural gas export lines.

Rising costs have prompted Shell to hit the brakes on efforts to add another hub facility to its prolific Mars-Ursa basin in the deep-water US Gulf. The project in question is the Mars South mini-hub ...

LONDON, July 29 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc said it had idled seven rigs and taken a $56 million charge second-quarter charge related to the U.S. deepwater drilling ban and would not rule out ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The pulling requirement for the tow of a Royal Dutch Shell PLC floating drill rig was revised upward by more than 50 percent after the vessel ran aground in December off a ...

SEATTLE >> Royal Dutch Shell says it has a valid lease for Seattle terminal space and a tight timeline to prepare its fleet for exploratory oil drilling in Arctic waters, so the company plans to move ...

During the last year, some 400 workers at a shipyard on Seattle's Harbor Island have been installing diesel engines, welding bulkheads, painting and tackling other tasks to prepare the Kulluk, a Shell ...