The deepest offshore oil well was over 35,000 feet by the Deepwater Horizon, and the Maersk Voyager operated in the deepest ...

On June 10, Texas-based offshore drilling contractor Noble made oil industry waves with the year's first major deal in the upstream services sector, announcing a $2 billion deal for Diamond ...

Countries are starting to work out how to exploit the deep seas. But the truth is, we still don’t really know how they work.

said it achieved the first oil and gas flows from the deepest onshore well in Asia. Other Chinese companies, including CNOOC and CNPC, are leading major drilling projects, including the Deep Sea ...

Test drilling has yielded a daily production of 413 barrels of crude oil and 68,000 cubic meters ... an important component of deep-sea hydrocarbon deposits, generally have low permeability ...

Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri says foreign technical partners in oil and gas projects will get the first right of ...

The Deepwater Horizon offshore oil drilling rig caught fire and sank ... ecosystem for the northern portion of the Gulf. For deep-sea coral, oil contamination can have a variety of impacts ...

DENG YONGAN/CHINA DAILY In a breakthrough to keep carbon dioxide permanently locked away, China has built a secure "prison" for the greenhouse gas deep beneath the South China Sea. Located about ...

The new area proposed for inclusion in the oil and gas leasing program is part of the ocean territory to which the U.S. government is claiming new rights following a sea-mapping program conducted ...

The first drilling for oil in the Caspian Sea began 28 years ago. A drilling project in the deep parts of the Caspian Sea came to a halt 11 years ago. The Oil Ministry has now restarted the oil ...

Drilling in the deeper parts of the sea was also halted in 2014. Iran’s Oil Ministry plans to resume deep-water operations once the semi-submersible Iran–Amirkabir platform completes necessary repairs ...