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Van-Yeganskoye oil field
The Van-Yeganskoye field (Ван-Еганское месторождение) is an oil, gas, and condensate field in West Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1974 and operated by a Rosneft subsidiary.
Vandumbu oil field
Vandumbu is a deepwater oil field in Block 15/06, offshore Angola, about 350 km northwest of Luanda, which began producing oil in late November 2018.
Vankorskoye oil field
The Vankorskoye oil field (Ванкорское месторождение) is a large oil, gas, and condensate field in Krasnoyarsk Territory, northern Eastern Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1988 and producing commercially since 2009.
Varadero oil field
Varadero is an oil field in block 28/9a of the UK Central North Sea, about 170 km southeast of Aberdeen, discovered in 2011 and producing through the BW Catcher FPSO since January 2018.
Vat-Yeganskoye Oil Field
Vat-Yeganskoye Oil Field (Ватьеганское месторождение) is a large oil field in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of Western Siberia, Russia, operated by LUKOIL-West Siberia.
Vatinskoe Oil Field
Vatinskoe Oil Field (Ватинское месторождение) is a large onshore oil field in Western Siberia, Russia, about 50 km from Nizhnevartovsk, discovered in 1963 and operated by Slavneft-Megionneftegaz.
Verkhnechonskoye Oil and Gas Field
The Verkhnechonskoye oil and gas field (Верхнечонское месторождение) in the Katangsky District of Irkutsk Region, Eastern Siberia, was discovered in 1978 and entered commercial production in 2008.
Verkhnekolik-Yeganskoye Oil and Gas Field
Verkhnekolik-Yeganskoye (Верхнеколик-Еганское) is a large oil, gas and condensate field in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of Western Siberia, Russia, about 225 km northeast of Nizhnevartovsk and operated by Rosneft's Varyeganneftegaz since 1990.
Vermelho Oil Field
The Vermelho Oil Field is an offshore oil field in the Campos Basin off Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, discovered in 1982, with recoverable oil estimated at 121.55 million barrels.
Very low sulfur fuel oil
Very low sulfur fuel oil (VLSFO) is a blended marine fuel containing no more than 0.50% sulfur, created for the IMO's 2020 global sulfur cap.
Viewfield Bakken Oil Pool
The Viewfield Bakken Oil Pool is a light oil pool in southeastern Saskatchewan, producing from the Bakken Formation and driving most Bakken production in the region.
Vigdis Oil and Gas Field
Vigdis is an oil field in Norway's Tampen area of the North Sea, on stream since 1997 and developed with subsea wells tied back to Snorre A.
Vilje (oil field)
Vilje is an oil field in the central Norwegian North Sea, discovered in 2003, that produces through three horizontal subsea wells tied back to the Alvheim FPSO.
Villano Oil and Gas Field
Villano (Campo Villano) is an oil field in Ecuador's Pastaza province, in the western Amazon rainforest. Discovered in 1992 after a redrill of a 1950s Shell dry hole, it has produced commercially since 1999.
Visbreaking
Visbreaking, short for viscosity breaking, is a mild, noncatalytic thermal cracking process used in oil refineries to reduce the viscosity of heavy residual oils into gas, naphtha, distillates, and tar.
Vladimir Filanovsky Oil and Gas Field
The Vladimir Filanovsky field is an offshore oil and gas condensate field in the northern Caspian Sea, operated by LUKOIL and the largest oil field in Russia's Caspian sector.
Voador Oil and Gas Field
The Voador oil and gas field is an offshore field in the Campos Basin about 100 miles off Brazil, discovered in 1987 and operated by Petrobras.
Vostochno-Lambeishorskoye Oil Field
Vostochno-Lambeishorskoye (Восточно-Ламбейшорское) is an oil field in the Komi Republic, Russia, in the Timan-Pechora province, discovered by LUKOIL in 2011, whose reserves grew more than sixfold to 42 million tons by 2016.
Vostochno-Messoyakhskoe Oil and Gas Field
Vostochno-Messoyakhskoe, also called East Messoyakha, is an oil and gas condensate field on the Gydan Peninsula in Russia's Yamalo-Nenets region, the northernmost producing onshore oil field in the country.
Vostochno-Perevalnoe Oil and Gas Field
Vostochno-Perevalnoe is a small, structurally simple oil and gas field in the Surgut district of West Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1990 and known for its water-gas injection pilots and on-site 28 MW power plant.
Vostochno-Surgutskoye field
Vostochno-Surgutskoye field (Восточно-Сургутское месторождение) is a large, complex oil field in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Western Siberia, discovered in 1977 and operated by RN-Yuganskneftegaz and Surgutneftegaz.
Vozeiskoye Oil Field
The Vozeiskoye oil field (Возейское) is a large oil field in the Usinsk district of the Komi Republic, Russia, discovered in 1971 with reserves of about 350 million tonnes, operated by LUKOIL-Komi.
Vyngayakhinskoye Oil and Gas Field
Vyngayakhinskoye Oil and Gas Field (Вынгаяхинское) is an onshore oil and gas field in the Purovsky area of Western Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1968, with production beginning in 1986.
Wafra Oil Field
The Wafra Oil Field is a giant onshore oil field in the Partitioned Zone between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, discovered in 1953 with nearly 25 billion barrels.
Waha Oil and Gas Field
The Waha Oil and Gas Field is an onshore oil field in Libya's Sirte Basin, discovered in 1960 and producing since 1963; with Gialo, Dahra, and Defa it forms Libya's biggest producing area.
Water shut-off
Water shut-off is a set of petroleum-engineering treatments, mechanical or chemical, that reduce or stop unwanted water production from an oil or gas well, or divert injected water.
Water-alternating-gas injection
Water-alternating-gas (WAG) injection is an enhanced oil recovery method that injects water and gas into a reservoir in alternating slugs, displacing oil toward production wells and improving sweep efficiency.
Wax oil
Wax oil, known commercially as slack wax, is a semi-solid mixture of crystalline paraffin hydrocarbons and lubricating oil from solvent dewaxing, and the main feedstock for paraffin wax.
Weizhou 12-2 Oil and Gas Field
Weizhou 12-2 Oil and Gas Field (涠洲12-2) is a shallow-water offshore oil field in the Beibu Gulf off Guangxi, China, operated by CNOOC and producing since 2016.
Well completion
Well completion is the operations and permanent equipment that convert a drilled oil or gas well into a producing or injecting well, spanning tubing, perforating, and sand control.