Royal Dutch Shell reported an 80 percent drop in earnings in 2015, but says it will still press ahead with the proposed mega-merger with BG Group plc. Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP hide caption
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A Royal Dutch Shell oil drilling rig is towed toward a dock in Elliott Bay, Seattle, in May. Three weeks after Royal Dutch Shell announced it was walking away from exploratory drilling in U.S. Arctic waters, the Obama administration has taken steps to keep drill rigs out of Alaska's northern ocean for a decade or more. Elaine Thompson/AP hide caption