CNOOC Ltd's Hai Yang Shi You 696 to be deployed next year to country's low-permeability reservoirs Chinese offshore giant CNOOC Ltd has taken delivery of the hydraulic fracturing equipment for its ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. — The oil production technique known as fracking is more widespread and frequently used in the offshore platforms and man-made islands near some of California’s most populous and ...

China has launched what operator CNOOC Ltd claims to be the world’s largest and its own first offshore hydraulic fracturing vessel, Hai Yang Shi You 696, as part of an ambitious drive to tap into ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Companies prospecting for oil off California’s coast have used hydraulic fracturing on at least a dozen occasions to force open cracks beneath the seabed, and now regulators are ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) – California regulators on Thursday were set to take up offshore fracking after revelations that the practice had quietly occurred off the coast since the late 1990s. The California ...

VENTURA, Calif.— As the California Coastal Commission meets in Ventura today, hazmat-suit-wearing protesters with the Center for Biological Diversity and Food & Water Watch will urge the commissioners ...

The lawsuit filed in Federal Court in Los Angeles claims the Department of the Interior failed in not taking a hard enough look at the full range of environmental impacts from oil and gas extraction ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A group of state lawmakers has asked the federal government to investigate hydraulic fracturing off the California coast where new oil leases have been banned since a disastrous oil ...

According to the Rystad Energy consulting firm, ultra-deepwater offshore oil production is expected to grow at 19% annually through 2030, 19 times faster than conventional land based production.