However, offshore oceanic impacts are less well understood. The BP oil spill is introducing oil and methane gas into the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico. Previous studies on deepwater drilling ...

Biden's offshore drilling ban comes to fruition after environmental and climate activist groups have called for Biden to prevent future drilling within regions of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, as ...

Chinese offshore operator CNOOC Ltd has started a drilling campaign to develop the Lingshui 25-1 deep-water gas field in the Qiongdongnan basin, in the South China Sea. The first of the 12-well ...

The first well in the programme is set for spudding ... China Oilfield Service Ltd is mobilising the deep-water semi-submersible drilling rig Bluewhale to drill the 12 production wells.