DEHRADUN, India, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd. has great expectations for its debut deepwater exploration development in the Arabian Sea, officials say.
TRIPOLI, Libya, July 17 (UPI) -- Exxon Mobil announced its affiliate in Libya began drilling its first deepwater exploration well in the Libyan territorial waters of the Mediterranean Sea.
BANGKOK, March 24 (UPI) -- A researcher has found a way to preserve the aroma of jasmine rice and add the aroma to other rice varieties, the Bangkok Post reported.
LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Purdue University researchers said they will get to the nugget of the transport and flow of nutrients in the rice plant and their storage in the edible grain.
HOUSTON, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Norway's Statoil ASA has agreed to spend $700 million to buy a stake in two deepwater petroleum discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico.
RIVERSIDE, Calif., Aug. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. geneticists say they've developed a flood-tolerant strain of rice that enables the grains to survive short-term flooding.
HOUSTON, March 1 (UPI) -- Houston-based Transocean Inc. has booked contracts worth as much as $2.2 billion, from Chevron Corp. and BP PLC.
ROCKVILLE, Md., Aug. 11 (UPI) -- U.S., Chinese, French, Taiwanese, Indian, Thai, Korean, Brazilian and British researchers have completed a genetic map of the rice plant.
BELTSVILLE, Md., Aug. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers have found genes to help rice plants fight "rice blast," a disease that can cut productivity of an infected field by up to 30 percent.
ATHENS, Ga., Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Researchers said Wednesday they have found a way to improve rice crops without altering the plant's basic DNA.
