Dow Jones: Unsteady seas thwarted Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA.LN, RDSA) and the U.S. Coast Guard's attempts Sunday to retrieve Shell's oil rig from an Alaskan island where it has been grounded for nearly a week.
Shell's Kulluk oil rig crashed into the uninhabited Sitkalidak Island off the south Alaska coast late Monday after stormy seas pried it loose from tug boats that had been pulling it to Seattle for maintenance work. The Kulluk had been drilling exploratory wells in the Arctic waters as part of Shell's...