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 ...

In July 2022, a football-sized, soft-sided UPS package from Germany arrived in my office mail room at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I was expecting the package, but I was surprised at just how ...

To learn about how rocks and minerals get pushed from the Earth's mantle to the seafloor, scientists drilled a really, really deep hole. reading time 3 minutes Rock at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean ...

Equinor Energy AS has been granted drilling permits for well 34/4-19 S in production license (PL) 057 and well 34/6-9 S in PL 554, both in the North Sea, by the Norwegian Offshore Directorate. Wildcat ...

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Turkey began drilling at a second borehole in a Black Sea natural gas field where it made its largest ever discovery earlier this year, Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said on Thursday.