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Fahud Oil and Gas Field

Fahud Oil and Gas Field (فهود) is a large onshore oil field in northern Oman, operated by Petroleum Development Oman, whose 1967 startup began Oman's commercial oil production.

Faihaa Oil and Gas Field

The Faihaa Oil and Gas Field is an oil field in southern Iraq's Basra governorate, discovered in 2014, producing from the Mishrif and Yamama formations near the Iranian border.

Fanny-18B Oil and Gas Field

Fanny-18B is an operating onshore oil and gas field in Ecuador's Sucumbíos province, discovered in 1972, producing since 1975, and wholly owned by Andes Petroleum.

Farha South Oil Field

Farha South Oil Field is an onshore oil field in eastern central Oman, discovered in 2009 and the largest producing field of the Blocks 3 & 4 concession, operated by CC Energy Development.

Fedorovskoye Oil and Gas Field

Fedorovskoye is a giant oil and gas condensate field in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of Western Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1971, with about 1.5 billion tonnes of recoverable oil.

Fengcheng Oil and Gas Field

Fengcheng Oil and Gas Field (风城油田) is a shallow ultra-heavy-oil field in Karamay, Xinjiang, China, holding about 370 million tons of proven reserves and producing over 2.6 million tons in 2025.

Fenja Oil and Gas Field

Fenja is an oil and gas field in the Norwegian Sea, producing since April 2023 as a subsea tieback to the Njord A platform, operated by Vår Energi.

Fieldwood Energy

Fieldwood Energy is an oil and gas company founded in 2013 to operate Gulf of Mexico assets acquired from Apache, with a Mexican subsidiary producing the Ichalkil and Pokoch fields.

Fikri J. Kuchuk

Fikri J. Kuchuk is a petroleum engineer who rose to fellow and chief reservoir engineer at Schlumberger, known for pressure transient well testing and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012.

Firebag

Firebag is Suncor Energy's largest in situ oil sands operation, a steam-assisted gravity drainage complex 120 kilometers northeast of Fort McMurray, Alberta, producing 215,000 barrels of bitumen daily.

First Exploration & Petroleum Development Company

First Exploration & Petroleum Development Company, known as FIRST E&P, is a Nigerian indigenous oil and gas company founded in 2012 that operates the Anyala and Madu fields in the Niger Delta.

Floating production storage and offloading

A floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel is a ship-shaped offshore facility that processes oil from subsea wells, stores it, and offloads it to tankers.

Flotek Industries

Flotek Industries, Inc. is a Houston, Texas-based specialty chemistry and data technology company serving the energy industry, founded in 1985 and listed on the NYSE as FTK.

Flounder Oil and Gas Field

Flounder is an oil and gas field in the Gippsland Basin of Bass Strait, off Victoria, Australia, discovered in 1968 and producing oil from 1984.

Flowco Holdings

Flowco Holdings is a Houston-based oilfield services company providing artificial lift, production optimization, and emissions management for oil and gas producers; it went public on the NYSE in 2025.

Fluid catalytic cracking

Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC), or cat cracking, is a petroleum refining process introduced in 1942 that converts heavy gas oil into lighter products, chiefly high-octane gasoline.

Fluid coking

Fluid coking is a continuous refinery process that thermally cracks heavy petroleum residues, such as vacuum residuum, into gas, gasoline, gas oil, and coke, developed by Exxon.

Forcados Oil Terminal

The Forcados Oil Terminal is a Nigerian crude oil export terminal in the western Niger Delta, commissioned by Shell in 1971 to load the Forcados Blend grade.

Forcados Yokri Oil and Gas Field

Forcados Yokri is an oil and gas field in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, operated by Shell and among the largest in the NNPC/Shell joint venture.

Formation microimager

The formation microimager is a wireline well-logging tool producing high-resolution electrical images of the borehole wall; its successor, the Fullbore Formation MicroImager (FMI), was introduced by Schlumberger.

Formation testing

Formation testing is a downhole well-logging technique, developed in the mid-1950s, that measures fluid pressure in rock formations and retrieves samples, a central tool of reservoir characterization.

Foroozan Oil and Gas Field

Foroozan Oil and Gas Field, also spelled Forouzan and once called Fereidoon, is an offshore Persian Gulf field shared by Iran and Saudi Arabia, whose portion is named Marjan.

Fort Hills oil sands project

Fort Hills is an open-pit oil sands mining project in Alberta's Athabasca region, north of Fort McMurray, owned by Suncor Energy with a capacity of 194,000 barrels of bitumen per day.

Forties oil field

Forties is a giant oil field in the UK North Sea, about 180 km east of Aberdeen, discovered by BP in 1970 and the largest oilfield on the UK Continental Shelf.

Forum Energy Technologies

Forum Energy Technologies is a Houston, Texas manufacturer of capital equipment and consumables for the oil and gas industry, founded in 2010 and traded on the NYSE as FET.

Foster Creek oil sands project

Foster Creek is a steam-assisted gravity drainage bitumen project in northeastern Alberta operated by Cenovus Energy, the oil sands' first commercial SAGD project, started in 2000.

Frac pack

A frac pack is a well completion combining hydraulic fracturing with gravel packing in one operation, for sand control and stimulation, first used in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 1980s.

Fracking

Fracking, also called hydraulic fracturing, is a well stimulation technique first used commercially in 1949 that cracks tight rock to release oil and natural gas.

Frade Oil and Gas Field

The Frade Oil and Gas Field is a deepwater oil field in Brazil's Campos Basin, discovered by Petrobras in 1986 and operated since 2020 by PRIO.

Fram Oil and Gas Field

Fram is an oil and gas field in the northern Norwegian North Sea, 20 km north of Troll, discovered in 1990 and producing since 2003, operated by Equinor.