This is an incredibly powerful combination in the hands of the right management team: Production can actually fund a company's exploration plans on a self - sustaining basis. (wexboy.wordpress.com)
Oil exploration plans in eastern Russia are a serious threat to gray whales in the area, say scientists with the International Whaling Commission (IWC). (bbc.co.uk)
An alliance of environmental and Alaska - based community groups are challenging the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's approval of Shell's oil exploration plan for drilling this summer in the Chukchi Sea. (earthjustice.org)