Environmentalists: Oil, gas surveys could hurt ocean life. ... Group says hearing loss from the airgun blasts could harm ocean mammals%27 ability to navigate%2C feed and care for their young ...

Offshore drilling has come a long way since the wharf-based rigs of the late 1800s, giving oil companies an arsenal of options for tapping deep-sea deposits.

This video explains the difference between coal and crude oil formation, the role of the ancient Tethys Ocean, and how microbes and plankton contributed to massive oil deposits.

From his office in downtown New Orleans, Dan Allen can see to the bottom of the ocean.... Oil rigs help biologists unlock ocean life mystery Chron Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

Here's a curious place to look for an oil field buried under thousands of feet of rock: the sky. But that's where Royal Dutch Shell is heading in an attempt to survey huge tracts of rugged and ...

They’re enormous. The BP oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that exploded April 20 was 400 feet by 250 feet—roughly the size of two football fields—with a crew of 130. Some rigs are even larger ...

Some of the ancestral waters that made the planet’s oil still exist, like the Gulf of Mexico, while others have long vanished, like the ocean that produced the massive oil fields of the Middle East.

From the seismic pattern of those bounces, the companies' geologists can make some good guesses about the location of gas and oil deposits under the ocean floor. LIMITED-TIME EARTH MONTH OFFER Get ...

The first full-scale deep ocean mining project is being run by Canada-based Nautilus Minerals Inc., which is negotiating to mine an area about 5,249 feet deep off Papua, New Guinea, and hopes to ...

The Obama administration tentatively gave its environmental blessing to oil industry plans to look for new deposits in the Atlantic Ocean off the East Coast. Recommendations outlined Thursday in a ...

We tend to think of oil exploration as taking place on desert plains or out in the ocean, but finding oil deposits depends on having a comprehensive understanding of local geology, ...