The unusual mollusks of oceanic cold seeps--strange clams, mussels and sea snails that thrive in the sulfur and methane-rich environments--are on average older than the marine mollusk community as a ...

Mother Nature threw EnCana a curve ball. That was EnCana geologist Joel Fox’s conclusion about how natural gas from the Schwartz Well 2-15B was released into West Divide Creek a year ago. Gas bubbling ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...