McMoran's drilling strategy is focused on extracting reserves thought to exist below the "salt weld" -- specifically, hydrocarbon-bearing sands in the "deep gas plays" (depths of 15,000 to 25,000 ...

In early January, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced that more than 90 percent of the outer continental shelf in federal offshore areas is now available for offshore drilling ...

On June 23rd, 1921, a geyser of oil erupted from the Alamitos number one well, leading to an explosion of drilling in the Long Beach area.

The Kola Superdeep Borehole has long held the record as the deepest hole ever drilled into the Earth’s crust. However, China is now making headlines with its own record-breaking deep drilling ...

Now, officials at an MIT spinoff say they believe they’ve figured out how to drill as deep as 12 miles into the Earth’s crust, using a special laser that they say is powerful enough to blast ...

A several-month-long expedition aimed at drilling deep into the ocean floor recently ended. We'll talk about the deep geology of the planet, and why scientists want to find their Moho.

IT is perhaps not generally known that the long-projected depth of a 10,000 ft. oil-well was reached recently by the drilling of a hole to 10,030 feet in Ventura County, California, by one of the ...

Firstly, there is a six-month moratorium on new deep-water drilling permits for oil and gas. The current exploratory drilling on 33 wells in the Gulf of Mexico will be suspended.