Communities around the country rely on thriving oceans to promote strong economies through fishing and tourism. Multiple ...

The National Science Foundation says it will support ongoing research using existing core samples and work with scientists to plan the future of scientific ocean drilling. But for me and many ...

Through direct exploration of the subseafloor, U.S.-supported scientific ocean drilling programs have significantly contributed to a broad range of scientific accomplishments in Earth science ...

As part of his current attack on the oceans, Trump revived this same unlawful order, attempting again to open the entire Arctic Ocean to oil drilling. “We defeated Trump the first time he tried to ...

The premise of a jackup rig is that it is self-elevating; here, the legs are stationed on ocean floor and the drilling equipment is jacked up above the water's surface. Providing a very stable ...

Furthermore, working in ultra-deepwaters, the drilling riser pipe may span thousands of feet from the bottom of the semisub to the stationary subsea well equipment located on the ocean floor.

Norwegian Ocean Industry Authority (Havtil), the country’s offshore industry safety watchdog, has granted consent to Equinor ...

Hilcorp Alaska is looking at drilling three exploration wells in Cook Inlet over the next 5 years, along with production drilling and pipeline work, involving ocean-going tugs, a jack-up rig and ...

"The Arctic Ocean has been protected from U.S. drilling for nearly a decade, and those protections have been affirmed by the federal courts,” Sierra Weaver, senior attorney at Defenders of Wildlife, ...

A museum on offshore drilling may not sound like the most enticing thing to see on your trip to Galveston, but visitors say it's quite a hidden gem. Recent museumgoers describe the Ocean Star ...