The drilling moratorium enacted after the BP oil spill applies only to the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Yet energy exploration in the Gulf’s shallow waters has come to a virtual standstill as ...

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Thursday rescinded two new offshore drilling permits — less than 24 hours after authorizing them — as part of a temporary halt to oil and gas exploration in shallow ...

Holloman Energy Corporation, through its interim CEO, Grant Petersen, is beginning a drilling program of shallow test wells (200m) on its Australian Petroleum Exploration Lease (PEL) 112, to confirm ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Last week's blowout on a natural gas rig off the Louisiana coast could shift regulators' focus to shallow-water drilling and make an overhaul of safety equipment regulations more ...

A well test via the Wisting Central II horizontal appraisal well in the Barents Sea has recorded a flow rate of more than 5,000 boe/d and has therefore proved the viability of shallow horizontal ...

If we could take a tiny glass elevator down the trajectory of a Marcellus Shale well, we would see slabs of coal, sandstone, shale and siltstone alternating and colliding with one another for ...

Max Petroleum says that the shallow well drilling program in the Block E license area, western Kazakhstan, is expected to commence in July. The company expects to achieve initial production in August ...

The federal government Wednesday granted a permit for Bandon Oil and Gas to drill in shallow Gulf of Mexico waters, though a ban on new exploration in deeper areas continues. The move by the Minerals ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Interior Department issued its first shallow-water drilling permit since offshore exploration companies were required to meet two sets of new safety regulations in ...

The Interior Department denied Thursday that it has extended a drilling freeze to shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico, contradicting an e-mail written earlier in the day by the Minerals Management ...

Shallow-water drilling has been the heart of the offshore industry for decades. Ninety-eight percent of the 3,400 platforms operating in the Gulf are in shallow water. They produce 30 percent of the ...