This weekend, It's All About Shell!

ADN.  Greenpeace protesters must stay away from Royal Dutch Shell’s drill ships and support vessels, the anchor lines and buoys attached to them and the Barrow airport hangar and terminal that Shell is seeking to use to support its planned oil-exploration operations in the Chukchi Sea, a federal judge ruled Friday.

Greenpeace activists are even prohibited from flying drones this summer and fall over the offshore Arctic area where Shell plans to drill, according to the injunction issued by U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason.

MORE SHELL/SEATTLE BACKGROUND FROM PETROLEUM NEWS, ALAN BAILEY.  In the latest challenge to Shell’s planned 2015 Chukchi Sea drilling program, the mayor of Seattle has ruled that the city’s port must obtain a new land use permit, if Shell is to use the port as a West Coast base for its Arctic operations. 


K5News.  The Noble Discoverer, the drill ship that's part of Royal Dutch Shell's Arctic drilling fleet, will arrive in Everett next week. That's according to the Port of Everett.

The Seattle Times reports that Shell confirmed on Thursday that the ship will load and unload supplies in Everett before it heads to Seattle.