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Italy’s Eni receives permit to drill offshore oil well in Alaska’s Arctic

By Yereth Rosen, Arctic Now November 29, 2017
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An Italian oil company has received a permit to drill what is expected to be the first exploratory well in U.S. federal Arctic waters off Alaska since Shell abandoned its $7 billion Chukchi Sea campaign in 2015.

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