Shell oil rigs leave the Arctic, skip Seattle

Shell’s Noble Discoverer drill rig leaving Unalaska Monday afternoon. (Photo by John Ryan, KUCB – Unalaska)
Shell’s two Arctic oil rigs pulled into Unalaska’s Dutch Harbor on Sunday, some 1,100 miles south of the company’s drilling site in the Chukchi Sea.
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The Noble Discoverer and the Polar Pioneer headed south from the Chukchi shortly after Shell abandoned its quest for Arctic Ocean oil after drilling one well this summer.
Shell spokeswoman Megan Bal