The United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf has recognized a new area of the Atlantic Ocean’s northern seabed and subsoil as belonging to Brazil, covering dimensions ...

Japan on Saturday extended its designation of its continental shelf to the eastern part of islands some 1,000 kilometres south of Tokyo, enabling the resource-poor country to start research on ...

In 2009, Sri Lanka submitted technical and scientific data and other information to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf for the establishment of the outer limits of the continental ...

The U.S. Extended Continental Shelf Project was a collaborative, multi-agency effort to map and define the boundaries of the country’s extended continental shelf (ECS)—the portion of the continental ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Friday, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum directed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to initiate public engagement for the creation of the 11th National ...

However, this does not mean that the United States should not take every action necessary to secure its extended continental shelf (ECS) resources in the Arctic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico ...

FMT explores the validity of Sarawak’s claim to sole rights to energy resources found up to 200 nautical miles from the edge of its territorial waters. The rights to the continental shelf off ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines formally asked a United Nations body on Saturday to extend its continental shelf in the West Philippine Sea where it could explore and exploit natural ...

China has filed a protest against the Philippines’ request to extend its continental shelf claim in a United Nations body. In a note verbale dated June 18, China appealed to the UN Commission on the ...

Vietnam submitted a dossier for the Extended Continental Shelf beyond 200 nautical miles in the central area of the East Sea to the United Nations, in accordance with UNCLOS 1982. On the morning of ...