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Gjøa oil and gas field

Gjøa is a Norwegian oil and gas field in the northern North Sea, about 50 km northeast of Troll, producing since 2010 from a semi-submersible platform operated by Vår Energi.

Glenn A. Schurman

Glenn A. Schurman (1922–2010) was an American mechanical engineer at Chevron who led the Ninian Central Platform project and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980.

Glenn Pool

Glenn Pool is a giant oil field in Creek and Tulsa counties, northeastern Oklahoma, discovered in 1905; its boom made Tulsa the Oil Capital of the World.

Golden Eagle Oil and Gas Field

Golden Eagle is an oil field in the Outer Moray Firth of the UK North Sea, about 111 kilometers northeast of Aberdeen, producing first oil in late October 2014.

Golfinho Oil and Gas Field

The Golfinho Oil and Gas Field is a deepwater oil and gas field offshore Brazil in the Espírito Santo Basin, discovered in 2003 and owned by BW Energy.

Goliat Oil and Gas Field

Goliat is an oil field in the Norwegian Barents Sea, 85 km northwest of Hammerfest and the first oil field developed there, producing since 2016.

Gorm oil and gas field

Gorm (Danish: Gormfeltet) is an oil field in the Danish sector of the North Sea about 200 km west of Esbjerg, discovered in 1971 and brought on stream in 1981.

Gran Tierra Energy Inc

Gran Tierra Energy Inc is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in Calgary, with producing assets in Colombia, Canada, and Ecuador.

Grand Rapids (oil formation)

The Grand Rapids Formation is a Lower Cretaceous sandstone in Alberta carrying bitumen at the Cold Lake oil sands deposit, the deepest of its three bitumen-bearing formations.

Grane Oil and Gas Field

Grane is an oil field in the central Norwegian North Sea about 185 km west of Haugesund, discovered in 1991 and producing heavy oil since 2003 under Equinor.

GranMorgu

GranMorgu is a deep offshore oil development in Block 58, about 150 km off Suriname, operated by TotalEnergies and expected to produce first oil in 2028, with over 750 million barrels of recoverable reserves.

Gravel pack

A gravel pack is a sand-control well completion method in which gravel packed around a screen filters formation sand while letting oil and gas flow, used since the 1930s.

Greater Angostura

Greater Angostura is an offshore conventional oil and gas field in shallow water off the northeast coast of Trinidad, producing since first oil in 2005.

Gremikhinskoye Oil Field

The Gremikhinskoye oil field (Гремихинское месторождение) is an oil field in Udmurtia, Russia, operated by Udmurtneft and known for its high-viscosity oil, discovered in 1964.

GTL base oil

GTL base oil is a synthetic paraffinic lubricant base oil made from natural gas rather than crude oil, commercialized by Shell and classified as API Group III.

Guafita Oil Field

The Guafita Oil Field is an onshore oil field in the Apure-Barinas basin of southwestern Venezuela, near the Colombian border in Apure state, discovered by the Guafita-1X well in 1984.

Guanta

Guanta is a port city and municipality on the northeastern Caribbean coast of Anzoátegui state, Venezuela, grown around an oil terminal, with ferry service to Margarita Island.

Guara Oil Field

Guara Oil Field, renamed Sapinhoá in 2011, is a giant pre-salt oil field about 300 km offshore São Paulo, Brazil, discovered in 2008 and producing since January 2013 under Petrobras.

Gudao Oil Field

Gudao Oil Field (孤岛油田) is a large onshore heavy-oil field in Dongying, Shandong, China, discovered in 1968 and operated by Sinopec's Shengli Oilfield Company, Shengli's largest onshore producing unit.

Gudong Oil Field

Gudong Oil Field (孤东油田) is a heavy-oil sandstone field in the Yellow River delta region of Shandong Province, China, and a major component of Sinopec's Shengli Oilfield since 1986.

Gudrun oil field

Gudrun is an oil and gas field in the Norwegian North Sea, discovered in 1975 and producing since 2014 from an Equinor-operated platform tied to Sleipner A.

Gulf Keystone Petroleum

Gulf Keystone Petroleum is a Bermuda-incorporated independent oil company that operates the Shaikan Field in Iraqi Kurdistan with an 80% working interest, and is listed in London.

Gulf Oil

Gulf Oil was an American integrated petroleum company founded in Pittsburgh in 1901 to market Spindletop crude, grown by the Mellon family and merged into Chevron in 1984.

Gulkhari Oil Field

Gulkhari Oil Field (میدان نفتی گلخاری, also Golkhari) is an onshore oil field in Bushehr province, southwestern Iran, discovered in 1963 and producing about 15,000 barrels of crude per day.

Gullfaks

Gullfaks is an oil and gas field in the northern North Sea on the Norwegian continental shelf, produced since 1986 from three concrete gravity-base platforms.

Gumusut-Kakap Oil Field

Gumusut-Kakap is a deepwater oil field about 120 kilometers off Sabah, Malaysia, in water up to 1,200 meters deep, producing oil since 2014 through a Shell-operated floating production system.

Guneshli Deepwater Oil and Gas Field

Guneshli is an offshore oil and gas field in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea, 120 kilometers east of Baku, whose shallow waters provide more than 60% of SOCAR's oil.

Guntong Oil and Gas Field

Guntong is a large offshore oil and gas field in the Malay Basin off Peninsular Malaysia, developed from 1985 with about 1 billion barrels of oil equivalent.

Gunvor

Gunvor Group was a Swiss-based energy commodity trading house founded in Geneva in 2000 by Torbjörn Törnqvist and Gennady Timchenko, becoming one of the world's largest independent oil traders.

H. L. Hunt

H. L. Hunt (Haroldson Lafayette Hunt) was an American oil tycoon who bought the East Texas field's discovery leases in 1930, becoming the country's richest man.