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Shell begins exploratory drilling off northwest Alaska coast in hopes of tapping into 26B-barrel oil field
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More than four years after Royal Dutch Shell paid $2.8 billion to the federal government for petroleum leases in the Chukchi Sea, a company vessel on Sunday morning sent a drill bit into the ocean floor, beginning preliminary work on an exploratory well 70 miles off the northwest coast of Alaska. read more
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