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 ...

Modern offshore oil rigs are engineering wonders designed to accommodate massive crews and operate in some of the most hostile environments on Earth. As the demand for oil drives exploration into ...

Australian independent Beach Energy is hoping to start an exploration drilling campaign in late 2020 in New Zealand's deep-water Canterbury basin. Beach said in an application to New Zealand's ...

Getting to 20 km (12.4 miles) deep, says Quaise, would give you temperatures over 500 °C (932 °F), well past the point at which water becomes a supercritical fluid – and power plants using ...

There’s treasure buried deep beneath the viridescent foothills of Tuscany’s Apennine Mountains, where the stark metal trusses of the Venelle-2 drilling tower mark its location like an X on a map. This ...

China is going full Jules Verne as it prepares to go where no drill has gone before. As part of its Deep Ocean Drilling Program, the special-built Meng Xiang (梦想号, "Dream") drill ship is gearing up ...

A new study shows Americans are drilling deeper than ever for fresh water. Groundwater may be out of sight, but for over 100 million Americans who rely on it for their lives and livelihoods it's ...

Environmental justice organisations The Green Connection and Natural Justice are opposing a proposal by TotalEnergies EP South Africa to drill what could be the world’s deepest offshore well, off the ...