The announcement shows just how shrewdly the U.S. has gamed the international system. Since 1982, a United Nations agreement called the Law of the Sea has served as the cornerstone of the global ...

President Trump directed the Treasury Department to freeze new offshore wind leases on the outer continental shelf Monday evening as one of a flurry of executive orders he signed within hours of ...

Montgomery’s return is the big talking point of the week, and we’ll examine what to expect from that and more in this week’s depth chart projection. Expect another inactive week as the third ...

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Equinor is the operator of seven of the licences and a partner in 20. "There are still substantial resources on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). Together with our partners, we need to explore ...

FRIS is protected by thick ice and near-freezing seawater flowing over the underwater continental shelf that rings the coast of Antarctica in the Weddell Sea. However, in the summer, warmer water ...

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, to which Chile is a State Party since 1997, contains two concepts of continental shelf: the “scientific continental shelf”, which ...

The new outer limit means Argentina incorporates an additional 1.7 million sq km of continental shelf to its current 4.8 million sq km, extending from the base line to the 200 miles maritime limit.