Shell UK Exploration and Production said the final cost of a four-year project to decommission its controversial Brent Spar oil buoy had risen sharply. Shell officials reported that instead of ...

they face on board the redundant tanker loading terminal which they took over 10 days ago. A fax and a radio message were sent from the nearby Brent Alpha platform giving the Greenpeace protesters ...

New structural analysis shows offshore dismantling of the derelict Brent spar loading buoy will be trickier than first expected and a new solution must be found. So says Shell U.K. Exploration & ...

One of the humiliations that tipped the balance in leading John Major to resign as leader of the British Conservative Party last week was a story about David and Goliath. Goliath is Europe's biggest ...

LONDON — Where does a company dump a used, 65,000-ton, 450-foot-tall oil rig? Apparently, not in the North Atlantic. Yesterday, Shell U.K. Ltd. was forced to make an embarrassing U-turn at sea, ...

THEY have suggested turning it into an offshore casino, a floating hotel, a nightclub, a gigantic windmill, a fish farm, and even the foundations for a bridge, but it was made clear yesterday that ...

In April 1995, a group of Greenpeace activists sailed over 100 miles north-east of Shetland and boarded the defunct oil storage buoy Brent Spar. They were protesting at fossil fuel giant Shell’s plan ...