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Gulf Cartel
Gulf Cartel (Cártel del Golfo, CDG), a Tamaulipas-based Mexican drug trafficking organization dating to 1930s alcohol smuggler Juan Nepomuceno Guerra; once dominant nationally, it spawned Los Zetas and has since fractured into warring factions and was designated a foreign terrorist organization in 2025.
Gulf Clean Energy Center
The Gulf Clean Energy Center is a natural gas-fired power station in Pensacola, Florida, owned by Florida Power & Light on the former coal-fired Plant Crist site.
Gulf Coast Ammonia
Gulf Coast Ammonia is an anhydrous ammonia plant in Texas City, Texas, producing about 1.3 million metric tons per year and agreed in 2026 to be sold to Yara for $1.3 billion.
Gulf Coast Express Pipeline
The Gulf Coast Express Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline in Texas, operated by Kinder Morgan, carrying Permian Basin gas from the Waha hub to Agua Dulce since 2019.
Gulf Coast Fractionators
Gulf Coast Fractionators is a natural gas liquids fractionation joint venture operating a plant at Mont Belvieu, Texas, the main NGL hub on the Gulf Coast.
Gulf Coast of the United States
Gulf Coast of the United States: the Texas-to-Florida coastline on the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America), a low-lying wetland region marked by hurricane hazard, the seasonal hypoxic dead zone, major oil and gas and marine economies, and large Deepwater Horizon restoration programs.
Gulf Cooperation Council
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), or Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf: six-member bloc of UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, and Kuwait, founded 25 May 1981 in Abu Dhabi, headquartered in Riyadh, with a 2003 customs union, 2008 common market, and abandoned 2010 monetary union.
Gulf Crossing Pipeline
The Gulf Crossing Pipeline is an interstate natural gas pipeline from Sherman, Texas, to Perryville, Louisiana, built by a Boardwalk subsidiary and entered in 2009.
Gulf Development
Gulf Development is a Thai listed energy and telecommunications group formed on 1 April 2025 through the amalgamation of Gulf Energy Development and Intouch Holdings, led by Sarath Ratanavadi.
Gulf Development Public Company
Gulf Development Public Company Limited (SET: GULF) is a Thai holding company created on 1 April 2025 by amalgamating Gulf Energy Development and Intouch Holdings, spanning energy, data centers, and telecoms.
Gulf Gateway Deepwater Port
Gulf Gateway Deepwater Port was the world's first offshore LNG import terminal, 116 miles off Louisiana, which regasified LNG aboard moored ships from 2005 until 2013.
Gulf Keystone Petroleum
Gulf Keystone Petroleum is a Bermuda-incorporated independent oil company that operates the Shaikan Field in Iraqi Kurdistan with an 80% working interest, and is listed in London.
Gulf LNG Terminal
The Gulf LNG Terminal is an LNG unloading, storage, and regasification terminal on Bayou Casotte near Pascagoula, Mississippi, operated by a Kinder Morgan affiliate since 2011.
Gulf of Aden (خليج عدن)
Gulf of Aden (خليج عدن), sea basin between Yemen and Somalia linking the Red Sea at Bab el-Mandeb to the Arabian Sea; young ocean basin with the Sheba Ridge, a key Asia-Europe shipping route, and renewed piracy since 2023.
Gulf of Alaska
The Gulf of Alaska is the North Pacific bight along Alaska's southern coast, bounded roughly from Kodiak Island to Dall Island, driven by glacial freshwater feeding the Alaska Coastal Current, and known for major fisheries and 2014–2019 marine heatwaves.
Gulf of Alexandretta
The Gulf of Alexandretta, also known as the Gulf of İskenderun, is a shallow, semi-enclosed bay at the northeastern corner of the Mediterranean on the southeastern coast of Turkey.
Gulf of Anadyr (Анадырский залив)
Gulf of Anadyr (Анадырский залив), a northwestern Bering Sea gulf off Chukotka at the Anadyr River mouth; source of the Anadyr Current, dense shelf water, polynyas, and a highly productive diatom plume feeding the western Arctic.
Gulf of Aqaba (خليج العقبة)
Gulf of Aqaba (خليج العقبة, Gulf of Eilat): narrow northeastern arm of the Red Sea between Sinai and Arabia, bordered by Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia; rift-valley gulf up to 1,850 m deep, connected via the Strait of Tiran, with resilient coral reefs and the ports of Aqaba and Eilat.
Gulf of Boothia
Gulf of Boothia, a gulf in Nunavut, Canada, between Boothia Peninsula and Baffin Island and Melville Peninsula. Discovered and named by John Ross's 1829-1833 expedition for sponsor Felix Booth; site of the first distinct localization of the north magnetic pole.
Gulf of Bothnia
Gulf of Bothnia, the northernmost arm of the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland, comprising the Bothnian Bay, Quark, and Bothnian Sea; area 115,516 km2, salinity 0-7 psu, maximum postglacial land uplift 9 mm/yr, and good environmental status.
Gulf of California
Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez, Golfo de California): semi-enclosed sea between Baja California and mainland Mexico on a Pacific-North American oblique-divergent boundary; opened by ~6 Ma, young oceanic crust, UNESCO-listed biodiversity, critically endangered vaquita.
Gulf of Carpentaria
The Gulf of Carpentaria is a large, shallow embayment on northern Australia between Arnhem Land and Cape York Peninsula, named by Jan Carstenszoon in 1623 after Pieter de Carpentier.
Gulf of Corcovado
The Gulf of Corcovado (Spanish: Golfo Corcovado) is a large gulf in northern Patagonia, Chile, lying between the mainland coast and Chiloé Island in the southeastern Pacific.
Gulf of Corryvreckan
Gulf of Corryvreckan (Coire Bhreacain), a 3.2 km tidal channel between Scarba and Jura, western Scotland, site of the world's third largest whirlpool, with tidal currents up to ten knots and a 219 m hole beside a basalt pinnacle.
Gulf of Finland (Финский залив)
The Gulf of Finland (Suomenlahti) is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Finland, Estonia, and Russia, receiving the Neva River's freshwater at St. Petersburg.
Gulf of Fonseca
The Gulf of Fonseca, or Golfo de Fonseca, is a shallow bay on the Pacific coast of Central America shared by El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
Gulf of Gabès (خليج قابس)
The Gulf of Gabès (خليج قابس) is a broad, shallow gulf on Tunisia's Mediterranean coast, holding the Mediterranean's highest tidal range and most of its fishing fleet.
Gulf of Guayaquil
The Gulf of Guayaquil is a large Pacific embayment on the coast of western South America, opening between Ecuador and Peru and receiving the Guayas River estuary.
Gulf of Guinea
The Gulf of Guinea is the northeastern tropical Atlantic bay along West Africa from Liberia to Gabon, marked by seasonal coastal upwelling, fisheries, oil production, and the world's peak piracy zone in 2020.
Gulf Of Gulbahce
Gulf of Gülbahçe (Gülbahçe Körfezi, Gul Baghche Gulf), a bay in İzmir Province, Turkey, on the Gulf of İzmir near the Karaburun Peninsula; known for the active Gülbahçe Fault Zone, a strike-slip geothermal system, and Posidonia oceanica meadows.