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 ...

The former Del Monte pineapple plantation camp's water sources have been tainted by forever chemicals and crop fumigants.

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 ...

MANATEE CO., Fla. (WFLA) — Drilling in Piney Point has started, beginning the process of creating a deep injection well at the historically problematic phosphogypsum stack in Manatee County. The start ...

The Nanhai 9 completed the Lingshui 25-1-1 well at Qiongdongnan basin of the western part of the South China Sea on November 5. China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) said the well was drilled to ...

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 ...

Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

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 ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — Manatee County leaders announced on Wednesday that drilling had begun for a deep-injection well that will hold the remaining wastewater inside the former Piney Point phosphate ...

LONDON (Reuters) - BP has got a green light to drill a deepwater well off the Shetland Islands, the UK government said on Thursday, a move in line with Britain's plans to encourage more exploration in ...

STRAWBERRY, Ariz.—Nearly two years ago, officials with the Pine-Strawberry Water Improvement District seemed on the verge of finding a solution to their water woes. Located between Phoenix and ...

Destabilizing the precarious equilibrium at depth with geothermal wells may reactivate the geological layers causing earthquakes. Researchers have studied the seismic activity linked to a geothermal ...