In recent weeks, outgoing President Joe Biden and incoming President Donald Trump each issued a Presidential Memorandum to withdraw extensive areas of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) for future ...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) of Vietnam filed a claim to the UN’s Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) to extend the limits of its underwater continental shelf in the ...
In late 2023, the United States underwent a massive expansion in territory. Its boundaries grew by approximately one million square kilometres – an area about twice the size of California – all ...
The Philippines filed a claim with the U.N. on Saturday to an extended continental shelf (ECS) in the South China Sea, a waterway where it has had increasingly confrontational maritime disputes with ...
The US Outer Continental Shelf harbors vast undiscovered hydrocarbon resources, with potential for sustained energy production for more than 100 years on current production ...
Despite having a continental shelf over 200 times its landmass, Malta's oil and gas potential remains virtually untapped ...
CIRES researchers help map one million square kilometers of new U.S. seafloor in historic project The United States has established sovereign rights over an additional one million square kilometers of ...
Beijing has presented its position to a UN commission for the first time on the demarcation of the outer continental shelf in the East China Sea, saying it is legally and scientifically valid.