The Texas Tribune on MSN6mon
Fourteen years after BP oil spill, Galveston scientists are striving to save the Gulf’s deep-sea coral
When the BP oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico ... For the first time in a lab or in the wild, the team documented a tan ...
Rigzone9mon
How Do Jackups Work?
One of two types of bottom-supported MODUs (the other being the much less popular submersible rig), jackup rigs rest on the sea floor rather ... waters up to 350 feet deep. Once drilling is ...
Nature4y
The rich resources in Japan’s deep-sea muds
and Japan decided to dip a toe into its deep sea. Entirely new prospecting and mining technologies will be needed. Even the deepest oil rigs reach to only about 3,500m depths, while the valuable ...