In 1982, Mobil and ARCO placed two seep-containment devices side by side in about 220 feet of water just east of Platform Holly, according to the UC Santa Barbara Hydrocarbon Seep Project website. The ...

Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have released details of a deep-sea site roughly 48 kilometers (30 miles) west of Del Mar (just north of San Diego, Calif.) where ...

Eight years after natural gas started leaking from an Encana USA natural gas well into West Divide Creek south of Silt, benzene levels are close to falling within acceptable water quality levels.

During a recent oceanographic expedition off San Diego, graduate student researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego discovered convincing evidence of a deep-sea site where ...

Ocean Seep Mollusks May Share Evolutionary History With Other Deep-sea Creatures Date: September 11, 2006 Source: American Association for the Advancement of Science Summary: The unusual mollusks of ...

Michael L. Pinnell, Jason G. Blake Pioneer Oil & Gas Midvale, Utah Jeffrey B. Hulen University of Utah Research Institute Salt Lake City, Utah An active oil seep has been discovered in one of Nevada's ...

The discovery of the first active methane seep in Antarctica is providing scientists new understanding of the methane cycle and the role methane found in this region may play in warming the planet.

There is a place in the middle of Washington where sandhill cranes stop for a rest and a snack in the spring, before they continue their migration. They congregate in the fields and wetlands north of ...