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Drilling riser

A drilling riser is the large-diameter pipe connecting a floating drilling vessel to the subsea blowout preventer on the seafloor, returning drilling mud to the surface.

Drillship

A drillship is a maritime vessel modified with a drilling rig and station-keeping equipment, held on location by anchors, thrusters, or both, for drilling in deep water.

Druzhnoye Oil and Gas Field

Druzhnoye (Дружное) field is an oil field in the Surgut district of West Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1983 and developed since 1985 by LUKOIL-Western Siberia.

Dual gradient drilling

Dual gradient drilling (DGD) is an offshore technique, part of managed pressure drilling, that maintains two pressure gradients so wellbore pressure matches formation limits better.

Dubai Crude

Dubai Crude is a medium sour crude oil produced in Dubai whose Platts price assessment is the main benchmark for pricing Middle East Gulf crude exported to Asia.

Dukhan field

The Dukhan field is Qatar's first and only onshore oil and gas field, on the western side of the Qatar peninsula about 80 km west of Doha. Discovered in 1939, it is operated by QatarEnergy.

Dunga Oil Field

The Dunga oil field (Дунга) is an onshore oil and gas field in western Kazakhstan about 50 km north of Aktau, discovered in 1966 and producing commercially since 2000.

Duri Oil Field

The Duri Oil Field is a heavy-oil field in Riau Province, central Sumatra, Indonesia, producing since 1958 and the site of the world's largest steamflood operation.

Eagle Ford

The Eagle Ford is a Late Cretaceous shale formation in South Texas, developed since 2008 as one of the largest United States tight oil and shale gas plays.

East Baghdad Oil Field

The East Baghdad Oil Field is a giant onshore oil field about 10 kilometers east of Baghdad, Iraq, discovered in 1974 with roughly 8 billion barrels of proven reserves.

East Texas Oil Field

The East Texas Oil Field, discovered by the Daisy Bradford No. 3 well in 1930, is the largest oil reservoir in the contiguous United States, producing nearly 5.2 billion barrels from northeast Texas.

Eden Yuturi Oil and Gas Field

Eden Yuturi (Campo Edén Yuturi) is an oil field in the Ecuadorian Amazon, operated by the state company EP Petroecuador in Block 12 and producing about 29,000 barrels per day.

Edop Oil and Gas Field

Edop is an offshore oil and gas field in Nigeria's Niger Delta, discovered by Mobil in 1981 and operated by ExxonMobil within OML 67 off Akwa Ibom State.

Edvard Grieg Oil and Gas Field

Edvard Grieg is an oil and gas field in the central North Sea on the Utsira High, about 180 km west of Stavanger, producing since 2015.

Edward L. Doheny

Edward Laurence Doheny was an American oil prospector and executive who drilled the first commercial oil well in Los Angeles and built the largest oil enterprise in Mexico.

Egina Oil Field

Egina is a deepwater oil field in the Gulf of Guinea offshore Nigeria, discovered in 2003 and producing since 2018 at up to 208,000 barrels per day.

Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation

The Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) is Egypt's state-owned national oil company, responsible for most oil and gas operations and for managing concession agreements with international investors.

Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC)

The Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) is Egypt's state-owned national oil company, formed in 1962, which supervises concessions with international oil companies and owns Egypt's seven refineries.

Ekofisk

Ekofisk is an oil and gas field in the southern Norwegian sector of the North Sea, discovered in 1969 and producing since 1971 as Norway's first production field.

El Carito Oil Field

El Carito Oil Field is a giant oil field in northern Monagas State, northeastern Venezuela, discovered in 1987 as part of the Furrial Trend and operated by PDVSA.

El Dorado refinery

El Dorado refinery is the name of two American petroleum refineries: an HF Sinclair refinery in El Dorado, Kansas, and a Delek US refinery in El Dorado, Arkansas.

El Feel Oil and Gas Field

El Feel Oil and Gas Field, also called the Elephant field, is an onshore oil field in Libya's Murzuq Basin, discovered in 1997 and operated by Mellitah Oil & Gas.

El Furrial Oil Field

El Furrial Oil Field is a giant onshore oil field in Monagas state, eastern Venezuela, discovered in 1986 and producing medium-gravity crude from a deep Oligocene sandstone.

El Huemul Oil and Gas Field

El Huemul is an oil and gas field in the Golfo San Jorge Basin, Santa Cruz, Argentina, near Las Heras, operated by CGC since 2021.

El Merk Oil and Gas Field

El Merk is an oil and gas condensate field in Block 208 of Algeria's Berkine basin, operated by Groupement Berkine, with first oil in March 2013 and a designed peak of about 160,000 barrels per day.

El Sharara Oil Field

El Sharara (حقل الشرارة) is Libya's largest oil field, in the Murzuq Basin about 800 km south of Tripoli, operated by Akakus Oil Operations and producing light crude since December 1996.

Eldfisk

Eldfisk is an oil field in the southern Norwegian sector of the North Sea, discovered in 1970 and producing since 1979, operated by ConocoPhillips as part of the Greater Ekofisk Area.

Elf Aquitaine

Elf Aquitaine was a French oil and gas company formed in 1976 from state-owned predecessors, privatized in 1994, and taken over by TotalFina in 2000, later part of TotalEnergies.

Elk Hills Oil Field

The Elk Hills Oil Field is a large oil and gas field in Kern County, California, once Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1 and sold to Occidental Petroleum in 1998.

Elnusa

Elnusa (PT Elnusa Tbk) is an Indonesian integrated energy services company founded in 1969 as a Pertamina support contractor and controlled by Pertamina Hulu Energi, which holds 51.10%.