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 ...

The submission of Vietnam’s continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles in respect of Central Area in the East Sea, known internationally as the South China Sea, is Vietnam's third submission.

Argentina had made a submission to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) on 21 April 2009 to claim sovereignty rights over the resources of the sea-bed.

The rights to the continental shelf off all Malaysia’s coasts, including Sarawak’s, belong exclusively to Petronas by virtue of the Petroleum Development Act 1974 and not to the states ...

Norway has proposed opening up a Germany-sized part of the Norwegian Sea to deep-sea mining. The area holds considerable quantities of minerals needed for renewable energy technologies, such as ...

Philippines Files UN Claim to Extended Continental Shelf in South China Sea MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines filed a claim with the U.N. on Saturday to an extended continental shelf (ECS) in the ...

The Cabinet of Ministers approved the proposal presented by the Minister of Foreign Affairs to call for expressions of intent for the reconstitution of the National Oceanic Affairs Committee with a ...

The work of the U.S. Extended Continental Shelf Project, an interagency effort led by the U.S. Department of State, was recently completed. For more than 20 years, ...

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 ...

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