In 2019, thick pore-filling gas hydrate with high saturation was firstly discovered in the Quaternary sands of the Qiongdongnan Basin (QDNB), which expanded the reservoir types of gas hydrates in the ...

A new US Department of Energy survey provides updated data on oil & natural gas production in the CaspianBasin. It shows that ...

Last month, an 18th-century 28-meter wooden shipwreck was discovered off the Mazandaran coast of the Caspian Sea ... from the Volga River, which supplies 80 percent of the sea’s freshwater ...

A special envoy to the Caspian Sea region would help counter China, Russia, and Iran—and end the impression that Washington ...

On December 25, 2024, Azerbaijan Airlines flight 8432 crashed, killing 38 people. Preliminary reports suggest the plane was shot at by Russian air defenses, forcing it to deviate from its planned ...

Noatum Maritime, the maritime and shipping arm of AD Ports Group, has signed a heads of terms agreement with Kazakhstan National Shipping Company – KazMorTransFlot (KMTF), a subsidiary of ...

The Caspian Sea has witnessed a bizarre phenomenon. A temporary island formed off the coast of Azerbaijan and disappeared, all within a couple of years. The island, created by a mud volcano ...

The Kumani Bank mud volcano in the Caspian Sea created an island in early 2023 that had almost disappeared by the end of 2024, according to Landsate satellite imagery. | Credit: NASA Earth ...

off the coast of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea. The NASA Earth Observatory has released a series of images taken with the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and OLI-2 instruments on the Landsat 8 and 9 ...

Israeli police raided two popular bookstores in East Jerusalem, carted away dozens of books and detained two employees in a move they said was aimed at stopping incitement but which raised ...

bp plc will perform a seismic exploration program at Shah Deniz field offshore Azerbaijan in the South Caspian Sea in 2025. In addition to the seismic surveys, bp intends to drill and complete ...