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Ixachi Oil and Gas Field

Ixachi is an onshore oil and gas field in Tierra Blanca, Veracruz, Mexico, operated by Pemex and discovered in November 2017, its name meaning "giant" in Náhuatl.

Ixtal Oil and Gas Field

Ixtal is an offshore oil and gas field off Tabasco and Campeche, Mexico, discovered by Pemex in 1993 and producing light crude from Upper Jurassic carbonates since 2005.

Ixtoc Oil and Gas Field

Ixtoc is an oil field in the Bay of Campeche off Mexico's Yucatán coast and part of the Cantarell Complex, best known for the 1979 Ixtoc I blowout.

Iyak Oil Field

Iyak is an operating conventional oil field in shallow water about 17 miles offshore Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, one of six fields in OML 67's East Area cluster.

Jacana Oil Field

The Jacana oil field is an onshore field in the Llanos 34 Block in Casanare, Colombia, discovered in 2015 and operated by GeoPark with Parex Resources.

Jackfish (oil sands project)

Jackfish is a steam-assisted gravity drainage oil sands project in Alberta, Canada, which began operating in 2007 and can produce 120,000 barrels of bitumen per day.

Jackpine Mine

Jackpine Mine is an oil sands mine about 70 km north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, operated by Canadian Natural as part of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project.

Jackup rig

A jackup rig is a mobile offshore drilling unit towed to a site with its legs raised, then jacked down to the seafloor for shallow-water drilling.

Jalalabad Oil and Gas Field

The Jalalabad field is a natural gas and condensate field in Block 13 at Sylhet, northeastern Bangladesh, discovered in 1989 and operated by Chevron Bangladesh.

Jamnagar Refinery

The Jamnagar Refinery, also called Reliance Jamnagar Refinery, is a crude-oil refining and petrochemical complex in Gujarat, India, the world's largest single-site refinery at 1.4 million barrels per day.

Jebel Oil and Gas Field

Jebel Oil and Gas Field, also styled Al-Jabal, is a conventional onshore oil and associated gas field in Libya's Sirte Basin, operated by state-owned Sirte Oil Company.

Jing'an Oil Field

The Jing'an Oil Field (靖安) is an onshore oil field in Shaanxi, China, discovered in 1993, producing since 1996, and operated by the PetroChina Changqing Oilfield Branch.

Jinzhou 23-2 Oil Field

Jinzhou 23-2 Oil Field (锦州23-2油田) is an offshore heavy-oil field in northern Liaodong Bay in the Bohai Sea, China, developed by CNOOC, with production starting in 2024.

Jitendra Kikani

Jitendra Kikani is a petroleum engineer who serves as Vice President of Subsurface at Chevron and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.

Jiyang Shale Oil Field

The Jiyang Shale Oil Field is a continental shale oil field in the Jiyang Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, Shandong, China, developed by Sinopec's Shengli Oilfield.

Jiyuan Oil Field

The Jiyuan Oil Field (姬塬油田) is a large one-billion-tonnage oil field in the central Ordos Basin of north-central China, operated by PetroChina's Changqing Oilfield Company.

Joanne Oil and Gas Field

Joanne is an oil and gas field in the UK Central North Sea, discovered in 1981 and produced since 1997 through a subsea tieback to the Judy platform.

JODCO

JODCO, formally Japan Oil Development Co., Ltd. (ジャパン石油開発株式会社), is a Japanese oil exploration and production company wholly owned by INPEX, developing crude oil fields in Abu Dhabi since 1973.

Johan Castberg Oil and Gas Field

Johan Castberg is an oil field in the Norwegian Barents Sea operated by Equinor, producing since March 2025 and the northernmost field on the Norwegian shelf.

Johan Sverdrup (oil field)

Johan Sverdrup is a giant oil field on the Utsira High in the Norwegian North Sea, discovered in 2010 and operated by Equinor, producing since 2019.

Johan Sverdrup Oil and Gas Field

Johan Sverdrup is a giant oil field in the central North Sea, 160 kilometers west of Stavanger, operated by Equinor and producing about one third of Norway's oil.

Johanna Este Oil and Gas Field

Johanna Este is an oil field in Ecuador's Sucumbíos province, discovered in 2015 and operated by Andes Petroleum, producing over 10,000 barrels per day by 2016.

John L. Gidley

John L. Gidley (1924–2009) was an American petroleum engineer at Exxon, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994 for advances in well stimulation.

Jones Creek Oil and Gas Field

Jones Creek Oil and Gas Field is an onshore oil and gas field in the Niger Delta of southern Nigeria, discovered in 1967 and producing since 1969.

Jubarte Field

Jubarte Field is a giant deepwater oil field in the Campos Basin off Espírito Santo, Brazil, discovered by Petrobras in 2001 and producing heavy oil since 2002.

Jubilee Field

Jubilee Field is a deepwater oil and gas field about 60 km offshore western Ghana, discovered in 2007 and the country's first major commercial oil discovery, producing since 2010.

Junin 5 Oil and Gas Field

Junin 5 (Junín 5) is a giant heavy-oil field in Venezuela's Orinoco Belt, holding about 35 billion barrels of oil and operated by Italy's Eni since 2026.

Junin 6 Oil Field

Junin 6 Oil Field (Junín 6) is an onshore extra-heavy oil field in Venezuela's Orinoco Oil Belt, operated by the PDVSA-Russian joint venture PetroMiranda since 2012.

Jusepín Oil Field

The Jusepín Oil Field is an oil field in Monagas state, eastern Venezuela, discovered in 1938; it peaked at about 54,000 barrels a day in 1946 before PDVSA shut it in 1989.

Kakwa (Alberta gas field)

Kakwa is a liquids-rich natural gas and condensate producing area in the Montney Formation of west central Alberta, 75 kilometers south of Grande Prairie, operated since 2025 by ARC Resources.