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Husky Synthetic Blend

Husky Synthetic Blend (HSB) is a light, sweet synthetic crude oil produced at the Lloydminster Upgrader in Saskatchewan and marketed as refinery feedstock in Canada and the United States.

Hussar Oil and Gas Field

Hussar Oil and Gas Field is an operating onshore oil and gas field in Alberta, Canada, about 80 km east of Calgary, discovered in 1904.

Huwaila Oil and Gas Field

Huwaila Oil and Gas Field is an onshore oil field in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, discovered in 1965 and developed as a satellite of the Bu Hasa field.

Huyapari Oil and Gas Field

Huyapari is an extra-heavy oil field in the Ayacucho Block of Venezuela's Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt, operated by PDVSA Petropiar, a joint venture between PDVSA and Chevron.

Hydraulic stimulation

Hydraulic stimulation is a reservoir engineering method that injects fluid at high pressure to increase rock permeability, used for oil and gas recovery and enhanced geothermal systems.

Hydrodesulfurization

Hydrodesulfurization is a catalytic refining process that removes sulfur from petroleum fractions by reacting organosulfur compounds with hydrogen over sulfided molybdenum catalysts, letting refineries meet ultra-low-sulfur diesel limits.

Hydrofining

Hydrofining is a petroleum refining hydrotreating process in which distillates are treated with hydrogen over a catalyst to remove sulfur and nitrogen, first used commercially in the 1950s.

I/R Oil Field

The I/R Oil Field, also written I&R or Irwan, is an onshore oil field in the Murzuq Basin of southwest Libya, discovered in 2005 and producing since 2008.

Idd El Shargi North Dome Oil and Gas Field

Idd El Shargi North Dome (ISND) is an offshore oil field in Qatar's sector of the Persian Gulf, about 85 kilometers east of Doha, producing since 1964.

Idd El Shargi South Dome Oil and Gas Field

Idd El Shargi South Dome (ISSD) is an offshore oil field in Qatar, the smaller of the Idd El Shargi field's two domes, discovered in 1960.

Idoho Oil and Gas Field

The Idoho Oil and Gas Field is an offshore oil and gas field in the bight of Bonny, Nigeria, discovered in 1966 and producing since 1970 from OML 68.

Imilorskoye Oil Field

The Imilorskoye oil field, formally the A. Usoltsev Field since 2022, is a large oil field in western Siberia operated by LUKOIL, with recoverable reserves of more than 100 million tonnes.

Impala South-East Oil Field

Impala South-East Oil Field, or Impala South East, is an offshore oil field in Block 3/05, about 37 km off Angola, discovered in 1985 and producing since 1988.

Indico Oil and Gas Field

The Indico Oil and Gas Field is an onshore light-oil field in the CPO-5 block of Colombia's Llanos basin, discovered by ONGC Videsh in December 2018 and producing since 2019.

Infantas Oil and Gas Field

The Infantas Oil and Gas Field is an oil field near Barrancabermeja, Colombia, whose 1918 discovery well began the Colombian oil industry; Ecopetrol has operated it since 1951.

Irong Barat Oil Field

Irong Barat is an offshore oil field in the southeastern Malay Basin, about 210 kilometers off Peninsular Malaysia, discovered in 1979 and producing since 1983.

ISO 19902

ISO 19902, published by the International Organization for Standardization, sets requirements for designing and installing fixed steel offshore structures in petroleum and natural gas production.

Itapu Field

Itapu Field is a Brazilian pre-salt oil field in the Santos Basin, about 200 km off Rio de Janeiro, operated by Petrobras and producing through the FPSO P-71 since December 2022.

Itta Gas Field

The Itta Gas Field is a producing shallow-water field in the Gulf of Mexico about 24 kilometers northwest of Dos Bocas, Tabasco, discovered in 2019 and operated by PEMEX.

Itut Oil and Gas Field

The Itut Oil and Gas Field is an operating conventional oil and gas field in Nigeria, one of hundreds of named fields in the Niger Delta Province that holds nearly all of the country's petroleum.

Ivar Aasen Oil and Gas Field

Ivar Aasen is a producing oil and gas field on the Utsira High in the Norwegian North Sea, operated by Aker BP, with first oil in December 2016.

IX Lira

IX Lira, also known as Lira or Lira-1X, is a natural gas discovery in Romania's deep-water Black Sea sector, made by a Lukoil-led consortium in October 2015.

Ixachi Oil and Gas Field

Ixachi is an onshore oil and gas field in Tierra Blanca, Veracruz, Mexico, operated by Pemex and discovered in November 2017, its name meaning "giant" in Náhuatl.

Ixtal Oil and Gas Field

Ixtal is an offshore oil and gas field off Tabasco and Campeche, Mexico, discovered by Pemex in 1993 and producing light crude from Upper Jurassic carbonates since 2005.

Ixtoc Oil and Gas Field

Ixtoc is an oil field in the Bay of Campeche off Mexico's Yucatán coast and part of the Cantarell Complex, best known for the 1979 Ixtoc I blowout.

Iyak Oil Field

Iyak is an operating conventional oil field in shallow water about 17 miles offshore Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, one of six fields in OML 67's East Area cluster.

Jacana Oil Field

The Jacana oil field is an onshore field in the Llanos 34 Block in Casanare, Colombia, discovered in 2015 and operated by GeoPark with Parex Resources.

Jackfish (oil sands project)

Jackfish is a steam-assisted gravity drainage oil sands project in Alberta, Canada, which began operating in 2007 and can produce 120,000 barrels of bitumen per day.

Jackpine Mine

Jackpine Mine is an oil sands mine about 70 km north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, operated by Canadian Natural as part of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project.

Jackup rig

A jackup rig is a mobile offshore drilling unit towed to a site with its legs raised, then jacked down to the seafloor for shallow-water drilling.