exploration

That will support the development of at least eight new projects and the drilling of 15 exploration wells.

Beijing also has pressured Hanoi to cease oil-and-gas exploration in waters it considers its own and challenged Vietnamese fishermen’s access to the Paracels.

These insights could also inform future planetary exploration, since elements such as nickel and urea may affect the development of oxygen and life on other worlds.

ExxonMobil pointed to major new exploration and production projects that came online in Brazil and Guyana, its fourth and largest so far in the latter.

However, he has come under fire for backing more oil exploration, which he argues will help finance the climate transition.