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Midway-Sunset Oil Field

The Midway-Sunset Oil Field is a giant heavy-oil field in Kern County, California, the largest oil field in the continental United States by oil in place.

Milne Point Oil and Gas Field

Milne Point is an oil and gas field on the Alaska North Slope, about 30 miles northwest of Prudhoe Bay, discovered in 1969 and producing heavy crude.

Mina al-Ahmadi

Mina al-Ahmadi (مصفاة ميناء الأحمدي) is Kuwait's oldest oil refinery and export terminal on the Gulf coast, operated by KNPC and refining 346,000 barrels per day.

Minagish Oil and Gas Field

The Minagish Oil and Gas Field is an onshore oil field in west Kuwait, about 40 km west of Burgan, operated by Kuwait Oil Company and producing since 1961.

Minas Oil Field

The Minas oil field is a giant onshore oil field in Riau province, central Sumatra, Indonesia, discovered in 1944 by Caltex and the largest known oil field in Southeast Asia.

Miranga Oil and Gas Field

Miranga is an onshore oil and gas field in the Recôncavo Basin in Pojuca, Bahia, Brazil, discovered in June 1965, with about 225 million barrels of cumulative oil production.

MiRO Karlsruhe Refinery

The MiRO Karlsruhe Refinery (Mineraloelraffinerie Oberrhein) is an oil refinery on the Rhine in Karlsruhe, Germany, formed in 1996 and the largest fuel producer in Germany.

Mishkinskoye Oil Field

Mishkinskoye Oil Field (Мишкинское месторождение) is one of the largest oil fields in Udmurtia, Russia, discovered in 1966 and operated by Udmurtneft under Rosneft and Sinopec, with more than 42 million tonnes produced by 2023.

Mittelplate/Dieksand Oil and Gas Field

Mittelplate/Dieksand is Germany's largest oil field, in the Wadden Sea tidal flats off Dithmarschen in Schleswig-Holstein, produced since 1987 from an artificial offshore island and onshore extended-reach wells, and slated to end production by 2041.

Miztón Oil and Gas Field

Miztón is an offshore oil field in Campeche Bay, Gulf of Mexico, about 10 km off Tabasco, Mexico, operated by Eni México since first oil in 2019.

Moho-Bilondo Oil and Gas Field

Moho-Bilondo is a deepwater oil field offshore the Republic of the Congo, discovered in 1995 and operated by TotalEnergies EP Congo since first oil in April 2008.

Mol Refinery Százhalombatta

Mol Refinery Százhalombatta, known as the MOL Danube Refinery (Hungarian: Dunai Finomító), is an oil refinery in Százhalombatta, Hungary, owned by MOL Group and commissioned in 1965.

Mondo Oil Field

Mondo Oil Field is a deepwater oil field in Block 15 offshore Angola, discovered in 2000 and producing since 2008 through the FPSO Mondo vessel, operated by Esso Exploration Angola.

Moragot Oil and Gas Field

Moragot Oil and Gas Field is an offshore gas and condensate field in the southern Pattani Basin, Gulf of Thailand, discovered in 1990 and operated by Chevron Thailand.

Moreni Oil and Gas Field

The Moreni oil and gas field is a petroleum field in the Carpathian foredeep near Ploiești, Romania, among the country's oldest and described as its largest commercial reservoir.

Morgan Oil and Gas Field

Morgan Oil and Gas Field, also called El Morgan or Al Morgan, is a giant offshore oil field in Egypt's Gulf of Suez, discovered in 1965.

Morichal Oil Field

Morichal Oil Field is an onshore oil field in the Maturin basin of eastern Venezuela, discovered in 1958, producing since 1961, and wholly owned by PDVSA.

Moriche Oil and Gas Field

Moriche Oil and Gas Field is a heavy-oil field in the Middle Magdalena Basin near Puerto Boyacá, Colombia, discovered in 1983 and produced by cyclic steam injection since 2008.

Moskovtsev Oil Field

The Moskovtsev Oil Field is an onshore oil field in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of western Siberia, Russia, near Pyt-Yakh, discovered in 2009 and in commercial development since 2016.

Mostarda Oil and Gas Field

Mostarda is an oil and gas field in ultra-deep water on Block 32, about 150 kilometers off Angola, developed by the Kaombo project from 2018.

Motatán oil field

Motatán is an oil field in southeastern Zulia state, western Venezuela, producing from Eocene Misoa sandstones; since 2009 it has been operated with the adjacent Barúa field by the Petroquiriquire mixed company.

Mpungi Oil Field

Mpungi, also written M'Pungi, is a deepwater oil field in Angola's Block 15/06, about 350 kilometers northwest of Luanda, discovered by Eni and brought onstream in January 2016.

Mud motor

A mud motor, also called a drilling motor or positive displacement motor (PDM), converts circulating drilling fluid into rotation of the drill bit, enabling modern directional drilling.

Mud weight

Mud weight, or mud density, is the mass per unit volume of a drilling fluid, commonly reported in pounds per gallon and used to control wellbore pressure.

Mukhaizna Oil Field

The Mukhaizna oil field is a giant heavy oil field in south-central Oman, discovered in 1975 and operated by Occidental Petroleum using large-scale steam injection.

Mulach Oil and Gas Field

Mulach is an offshore oil and gas field in shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico's Cuencas del Sureste, discovered by Pemex in 2018 and producing since 2020.

Munin (oil platform)

Munin, formerly known as Krafla, is an unmanned oil and gas platform in the Yggdrasil area of the central North Sea, operated by Aker BP with production starting in 2027.

N'Kossa Marine Oil Field

N'Kossa (also written Nkossa) is an offshore oil field in the Republic of the Congo, discovered by Elf in 1984 and producing since 1996; at its 1997 peak it yielded 100,000 barrels a day.

Nahr Bin Umar Oil and Gas Field

Nahr Bin Umar, also written Nahr Bin Omar, is a giant oil and gas field in Basra Governorate, southeastern Iraq, north of the city of Basra.

Nakhla Oil Field

Nakhla Oil Field (النخلة; also written An Nakhlah) is an onshore oil field in Concession 97 in Libya's Sirte Basin, discovered in 1970, developed by Wintershall, and currently mothballed.