California-based startup Deep Fission, which aims to place small modular reactors in boreholes a mile underground, has begun ...

Deep Fission, Inc. ("Deep Fission" or the "Company"), an advanced nuclear energy company developing small modular pressurized water reactors installed one mile underground, today announced it has ...

The economics of deepwater development will demand compact well demand compact well designs. Technology advances will make more-slender and smaller wells possible, reducing wellbore volume by as much ...

The Nanhai 9 completed the Lingshui 25-1-1 well at Qiongdongnan basin of the western part of the South China Sea on November 5. China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) said the well was drilled to ...

The rig is working for CNOOC Limited in the South China Sea, and was purchased by COSL in August last year. COSL said it was the second drilling rig to be included in its league of “1000-metre-deep ...

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Today’s deepwater well interventions usually require big drilling rigs to place and pull heavy risers, but engineers visualize vessel-based, rigless interventions in future. Demand for oil and natural ...

NEW YORK -- The U.S. has approved the first deepwater drilling permit in the Gulf of Mexico since BP's massive oil spill. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement announced ...

Offshore oil and gas exploration and production are inherently hazardous activities requiring the coordinated utilization of many complex systems by hundreds of people working for dozens of companies.

This chapter describes the basic function of the Deepwater Horizon mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU); 1 its application in the Macondo well exploration; and specific areas of investigation ...