The China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) announced on Monday that it has discovered a major oilfield in the ...

China has discovered large-scale integrated clastic oilfield in deep to ultra-deep layers for the first time in South China ...

The robot has already ridden with two of China's most advanced crewed submersibles — Shenhai Yongshi, or Deep-Sea Warrior, ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our planet. It includes the twilight zone and the midnight zone, where strange and ...

Canadian deep-sea mining firm The Metals Company (TMC) has announced it “initiated a process” with U.S. regulators to apply ...

An abrupt announcement has rattled members of a little-known U.N. agency based in Jamaica that has protected deep ...

Canadian miner The Metals Company said on Thursday it had formally initiated a process under the U.S. Department of Commerce to apply for exploration licenses and permits to extract minerals from the ...

Following successful mining tests by U.S. consortia and pioneering environmental impact assessment by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...