On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, drilling at the Macondo Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico, exploded and later ...

The oil drilling platform blew up 15 years ago, triggering the worst single environmental disaster in the nation’s history.

China has struck black-gold after discovering 100 million tons of oil beneath the seabed. A major oilfield, called Huizhou 19-6, was recently found in the deep and ultra-deep layers under the South ...

An imminent executive order on deep sea mining could open a new resource frontier. It’s a signal to markets that the United ...

WASHINGTON, April 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- April 20 marks the 15 th anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which remains the worst oil spill in U.S. history. An analysis released by Oceana ...

What is the role of dissolved organic matter in the deep sea? In a study relating to this question, researchers from the ...

Britain approves new North Sea oil drilling but ignores climate change warnings Britain has given the go-ahead for a major oil and gas project in the North Sea, ignoring warnings from scientists ...

The move, focused on Nevada and New Mexico, is aimed at removing “burdensome” restrictions on energy and mineral development, ...

What is the role of dissolved organic matter in the deep sea? In a study relating to this question, researchers have investigated the composition of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in detail. Their ...

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 ...