The Deepwater Horizon spill remains one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. More than 15 years later, ...

Since the first oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was built in 14 feet of water off the coast of Louisiana in 1938, offshore oil and gas companies have drilled in ever deeper waters to prospect for black ...

According to the HelloNation article, groundwater in Michigan is generally stable, and true depletion is rare. Instead, ...

The federal government on Monday told Noble Energy Inc. it could resume a deep-water drilling project halted last year by the Obama administration's moratorium — the first work of its kind to be ...

Beach Energy has been granted an approval by New Zealand's environmental regulator for a deep-water exploration drilling campaign in the Canterbury basin. The application for a marine discharge ...

A temporary ban on deep water oil drilling has been lifted. The moratorium was put in place after the BP spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Judy Woodruff talks to reporter Juliet Eilperin of the ...

NEW ORLEANS - Petroleum operators announced 10 new deep-water discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005 and the number of drilling rigs exploring in deep water has increased sevenfold in a year, a ...

The Obama administration is fighting a judge’s decision in June that blocked the six-month ban on drilling in waters greater than 500 feet deep. An appellate panel in Louisiana will review the case ...

Italy’s Eni has started drilling a deep-water well in Block-52, off the coast of Oman, in what is believed to be the Sultanate's first ever deep-water exploration well. Drillship Pacific Bora, owned ...

Offshore drilling companies have seen their share prices jump this year as a result of renewed appetite for offshore drilling and exploration. One notable trend in the ongoing offshore boom is a large ...

New tools and services allow companies to shorten the time required to sample and evaluate reservoir fluids encountered in deepwater exploration and appraisal wells. New tools and services allow ...

BOGOTÁ, Colombia, Oct. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ecopetrol S.A. (BVC: ECOPETROL; NYSE: EC) confirms that the Glaucus-1 well has verified the presence of natural gas in the deep waters of the southern ...