According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there are technically recoverable resources of 28.3 trillion cubic feet of gas and 1 ...

Organic-rich marine-continental transitional shale is widely developed in the Permian Shanxi Formation in the Southern North China Basin. In this study, shale samples from the southern and northern ...

Artist impression of two types of lithospheric drip. One type produces thickening and uplift of Earth’s crust, while the other results in the formation of a basin at the surface without horizontal ...

New results from the Gulf of Corinth, Greece, a continental rift zone where the first stage of ocean basin formation is taking place, show how the environmental conditions and sediment input into the ...

July was an active month for the Atlantic basin, with the formation of two hurricanes. The Atlantic basin includes the north Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Based on a climatology data ...

A new petroleum province has emerged in the Guyana-Suriname Basin, thanks to Liza and other discoveries made by Exxon Mobil in the deepwater Stabroek Block. The discoveries confirmed the petroleum ...