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

Offshore drilling is once again under consideration off the coast of South Carolina, but not by locals. The Bureau of Ocean ...

Offshore oil rigs are some of the largest structures found on the water, but are they just floating out there? How do they ...

Offshore oil drilling is once again under federal consideration for the South Carolina coastline, a prospect that runs counter to strong local sentiment. The Bu ...

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 ...

The Norwegian offshore driller Dolphin Drilling has put a difficult period of financial uncertainty behind it with the ...

Deep-sea mining is seen by the administration as another avenue for extracting rare-earth elements such as manganese, cobalt, nickel and copper, helping wean the U.S. off foreign suppliers and ...

Countries are starting to work out how to exploit the deep seas. But we still don’t really know how they work.Is it already ...

Global oil giants ExxonMobil, BP, and Shell are in discussions with Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC). They are exploring a partnership for ONGC's $5-billion deep-sea project in the KG basin. ONGC seeks ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...