deep-sea drilling
Underwater petroleum boring
Deep-sea drilling is the extraction of core samples or resources from the ocean floor, typically in waters thousands of meters deep.
Scientific drilling retrieves geological and biological samples to study Earth's history and climate.
Commercial drilling extracts oil and natural gas from beneath the seabed: The deep-sea drilling platform operated in the Gulf of Mexico.
- drillshipMaritime drilling vessel
- oil rigOffshore petroleum extraction structure
- oil spillPetroleum released into water
- black goldSlang for petroleum
- Deepwater HorizonFailed offshore drilling platform
Gulf of Mexico · marine ecosystem · microfossils · stratigraphy · paleoclimatology · continental shelf · hydrothermal vent · geophysics · water contamination · blowout · trench · offshore · crude · environmental monitoring · platform · core · pipeline · rig
- deep oceanMariana Trench, ocean trench, trench, ocean floor, water pressure
deep-sea drillingsurface mining
Topsoil-removal ore extraction
strip mining · open-pit mining · fracking · mountaintop removal · coal mining
deep-sea drillingoffshore wind farms
Ocean-sited electricity generators
solar power · renewable energy · wind energy · tidal power · hydroelectric power