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Fred C. Koch

Fred C. Koch was an American chemical engineer who developed an improved oil cracking process, built refineries in the Soviet Union, and cofounded Koch Industries' predecessor in 1940.

FTAI Energy Partners LLC

FTAI Energy Partners LLC is a Delaware holding company that held FTAI's stake in the Jefferson Terminal crude oil logistics complex at the Port of Beaumont, Texas.

Fuman Oil and Gas Field

Fuman Oil and Gas Field is an ultra-deep oil and gas field in the Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, China, operated by PetroChina and producing from Ordovician carbonates below 6,000 m.

Fushan Oil Field

The Fushan Oil Field (福山油田) is the only onshore oil field on Hainan Island, China, discovered in 1999 and operated by a CNPC subsidiary, supplying all its output within Hainan.

Gachsaran oil field

The Gachsaran oil field (گچساران) is a giant onshore oil and gas field in Khuzestan province, southwestern Iran, discovered in 1928 and developed into one of the country's most important oilfields.

Galveston Bay Refinery

The Galveston Bay Refinery is a Marathon Petroleum refinery in Texas City, Texas, on Galveston Bay, opened in 1934 and refining 631,000 barrels of crude oil per day.

Ganesh Kailasam

Ganesh Kailasam is a chemical engineer and technology executive elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 for developing high-performance polymer processes, later VP of Technology at OGCI Climate Investments.

Garten Oil and Gas Field

Garten is an oil and gas field in the UK North Sea, discovered by Apache in 2018 and tied back to the Beryl Alpha platform.

Garyville Refinery

The Garyville Refinery is a Marathon Petroleum crude oil refinery in Garyville, Louisiana, along the Mississippi River, and the third-largest in the United States at 617,000 barrels per day.

Gas flare

A gas flare, also called a flare stack, is a device that burns waste gases at oil production sites, flaring about 151 billion cubic meters globally in 2022.

Gas lift

Gas lift is an artificial lift method for oil and gas wells in which high-pressure gas is injected into the tubing to lighten the fluid column.

Gasífero Oil and Gas Field

Gasífero Oil and Gas Field, Spanish for gas-bearing, is an onshore oil and gas field in the Veracruz Basin of Mexico, discovered by Pemex in 2012 and producing light crude and non-associated gas from Miocene sandstones.

Gasikule Oil Field

Gasikule Oil Field (尕斯库勒) is an oil field in the western Qaidam Basin, Qinghai, China, the basin's largest, discovered in 1977 and operated by PetroChina.

Gbaran Oil Field

The Gbaran Oil Field is an onshore oil and gas field in the Niger Delta near Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria, operated by Shell and discovered in 1967.

Gbeibe Oil Field

Gbeibe Oil Field (حقل كبيبة) is a large, sour, heavy oil field in al-Hasakah Governorate, northeast Syria, brought onstream in the late 1970s and operated by the Sino-Syrian Kawkab Oil Company from 2004.

Gear oil

Gear oil is a lubricant formulated for gear sets like manual transmissions and differentials, distinguished from engine oil by extreme-pressure additives and SAE J306 viscosity grades.

Geleki Oil and Gas Field

Geleki Oil and Gas Field is an oil and gas field in Sivasagar district, Assam, India, discovered by ONGC in 1968 and producing commercially since 1974.

Genel Energy

Genel Energy is a London-listed oil and gas company formed in 2011, with production in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and exploration in Oman and Somaliland.

General Petroleum Company (Egypt)

General Petroleum Company (الشركة العامة للبترول), abbreviated GPC, is Egypt's first fully state-owned oil and gas producer, established in 1957 and owned by EGPC, ranking second among Egypt's oil producers.

Geo-Jade Petroleum Corp

Geo-Jade Petroleum Corp (洲际油气) is a Chinese independent oil and gas exploration and production company, listed in Shanghai since 1996, with assets in Kazakhstan, Iraq, and Albania.

Geological modelling

Geological modeling is the construction of a 3D numerical representation of the subsurface, used mainly in petroleum geology to estimate resources and plan oil and gas field development.

GeoPark

GeoPark is an independent oil and gas company headquartered in Bogotá, Colombia, founded in 2002 and traded on the New York Stock Exchange as GPRK.

George Getty

George Franklin Getty was an American lawyer turned oil investor who founded the Minnehoma Oil Company in Oklahoma in 1903, father of J. Paul Getty.

Geosteering

Geosteering, also called real-time well placement, is a drilling technique that uses real-time geological data to keep the wellbore within the target reservoir, mainly in horizontal wells.

Getty Oil

Getty Oil was a Los Angeles petroleum company built by J. Paul Getty, acquired by Texaco in 1984 in what was then the largest US corporate acquisition.

Ghawar Field

Ghawar Field, also known as Ghawar oil field (حقل الغوار), is the world's largest conventional oil field, in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, discovered in 1948 and producing since 1951.

Gialo Oil Field

The Gialo Oil Field, also written Jalu or Gallo, is a giant oil field in Libya's Sirte Basin, operated by the Waha Oil Company and producing since 1961.

Gindungo Oil Field

Gindungo Oil Field is an ultra-deepwater oil field offshore Angola in Block 32, discovered in 2003 and producing since 2018 through the Kaombo Norte FPSO.

Gippsland Basin

The Gippsland Basin is a sedimentary basin in southeastern Australia, extending from onshore Gippsland into Bass Strait, that has supplied most of Victoria's oil and gas since the 1960s.

Girassol Oil Field

Girassol, Portuguese for sunflower, is a deepwater oil field in Block 17 off Angola, about 210 km northwest of Luanda, discovered in 1996 and on stream since 2001, with TotalEnergies as operator.