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Lama Oil Field

The Lama Oil Field (Campo Lama) is an oil field in central Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, discovered in 1957 by the Superior Oil Company and still operating.

Lamadian Oil Field

Lamadian Oil Field (喇嘛甸) is an operating oil field in Heilongjiang, China, discovered in 1960 and one of the constituent fields of the Daqing oil complex, operated by Daqing Oilfield.

Lamar Oil Field

The Lamar Oil Field (Campo Lamar) is a giant oil field in south-central Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, discovered by Phillips Petroleum in 1958 with an estimated ultimate recovery of more than 1.5 billion barrels.

Lancaster Oil and Gas Field

Lancaster is an oil field about 95 km west of Shetland, the first UK field to produce oil from fractured granite basement, with first oil in May 2019.

LandBridge (company)

LandBridge Company LLC is a Houston-based land and resource management company owning surface acreage in the Delaware Basin of the Permian Basin in West Texas.

Lanta Oil and Gas Field

Lanta is a small oil and gas-condensate field in concession block G4/43 in the northern Gulf of Thailand, about 125 miles south of Bangkok, operated by Chevron Offshore (Thailand) and producing since 2007.

Lapa Oil and Gas Field

Lapa is a deep-offshore oil and gas field in the Brazilian pre-salt of the Santos Basin, producing since 2016 and, since 2019, operated by TotalEnergies, the first international operator in the pre-salt.

Laredo Petroleum

Laredo Petroleum was an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company focused on the Permian Basin of West Texas, founded by Randy Foutch in 2006.

Lashburn East Waseca Oil Pool

The Lashburn East Waseca Sand Pool is a designated heavy oil pool near Lashburn and Waseca, Saskatchewan, producing from the Waseca Formation and developed with steam injection since 2014.

Lawrence B. Curtis

Lawrence B. "Buck" Curtis was an American petroleum engineer at Conoco, widely credited as the father of the tension-leg platform and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.

Leaded petrol

Leaded petrol is gasoline containing tetraethyl lead to boost octane and suppress knock. Used from 1923, it became a major lead exposure source and was banned worldwide by 2021.

Lebăda Est Oil and Gas Field

Lebăda Est, also known as Lebada East, is an operating oil and gas field on Romania's Black Sea shelf, operated by OMV Petrom, with production since 1987.

Lebăda Vest Oil and Gas Field

Lebăda Vest (Romanian for West Swan) is an offshore oil and gas field in the Romanian Black Sea, about 95 km from Constanța, operated by OMV Petrom since 1993.

Leduc-Woodbend Oil and Gas Field

The Leduc-Woodbend Oil and Gas Field is a light-oil and gas field in central Alberta south of Edmonton, discovered by Imperial Oil's Leduc No. 1 well on February 13, 1947.

Lekhwair Oil and Gas Field

Lekhwair Oil and Gas Field (الخوير) is an onshore oil and gas field in northwest Oman, discovered in 1968, producing since 1976, and under waterflood since the early 1990s.

Lenea Oil and Gas Field

Lenea Oil and Gas Field, also spelled Lanea, is an oil field in the Bongor Basin of southwestern Chad, discovered by CNPC in 2013 and producing light crude from fractured granite basement.

Leon-Castile (oil field)

Leon-Castile is a pair of deepwater oil fields in the Keathley Canyon area of the US Gulf of Mexico offshore Louisiana, which began producing oil in 2025.

Leuna Refinery

The Leuna Refinery, TotalEnergies Raffinerie Mitteldeutschland, is an oil refinery in Leuna, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, that can process up to 12 million tonnes of crude oil a year.

Liaohe Oil Field

Liaohe Oil Field (辽河油田) is a PetroChina oil field in Panjin, Liaoning, China's largest onshore heavy oil production base, producing about 10 million tons in 2024.

Liberty Oilfield Services

Liberty Oilfield Services, since 2022 named Liberty Energy Inc., is a Denver, Colorado provider of hydraulic fracturing services to onshore oil and gas producers, founded in 2011.

Liberty Resources II, LLC

Liberty Resources II, LLC is a privately held, Denver-based oil and gas acquisition and development company formed in November 2013 by the leadership of predecessor Liberty Resources LLC, backed by Riverstone.

Likouala Marine Oil and Gas Field

Likouala Marine is an offshore oil and gas field in the Republic of the Congo, about 50 km south of Pointe-Noire, producing since 1980 and peaking at 26,800 barrels per day in 2014.

Lindero Atravesado Occidental Oil and Gas Field

Lindero Atravesado Occidental is an unconventional onshore oil and gas field in Argentina's Neuquén Basin, near Neuquén city and operated by Pan American Energy with YPF.

Linga (oil field)

Linga is a gas and condensate discovery in the Norwegian North Sea, 205 km west of Stavanger, proven by the Equinor-operated well 25/7-13 in 2026.

List of abbreviations in oil and gas exploration and production

The list of abbreviations in oil and gas exploration and production, also known as list of oil field acronyms, defines shorthand like BOP, EOR, and 1P used across drilling, logging, production, and offshore operations.

List of crude oil products

The list of crude oil products covers the petroleum products obtained by refining crude oil, from LPG and gasoline to diesel, lubricants, waxes, and asphalt.

List of largest oil and gas companies by revenue

The list of largest oil and gas companies by revenue ranks them by the Fortune Global 500, led in 2026 by Saudi Aramco, China National Petroleum, and Sinopec.

List of oil refineries

The list of oil refineries catalogs notable operating refineries worldwide by country, with crude distillation capacities, led by India's Jamnagar complex at 1.4 million barrels per day.

Liuhua 16-2 Oil Field

Liuhua 16-2 (流花16-2) is an offshore oil field in the South China Sea about 240 kilometers southeast of Hong Kong, part of China's first self-operated deepwater oilfield cluster.

Liuhua 20-2 Oil Field

Liuhua 20-2 (流花20-2) is an offshore oil field in the South China Sea, about 240 km south of Hong Kong, operated by CNOOC and producing since September 2020.