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McDermott International
McDermott International is an engineering, procurement, construction, and installation contractor for the energy industry, founded in 1923 in Eastland, Texas, and known for offshore platform and LNG projects.
Measurement while drilling
Measurement while drilling (MWD) is a drilling technique that transmits downhole measurements, principally wellbore inclination and azimuth, to the surface in real time, typically by mud-pulse telemetry.
Medco Energi
Medco Energi (MedcoEnergi) is an Indonesian energy company in Jakarta with oil and gas, power, and mining businesses, founded in 1980 by Arifin Panigoro as Indonesia's first privately owned drilling contractor.
MEG Energy
MEG Energy was a Canadian oil sands company producing roughly 100,000 barrels of bitumen per day at Christina Lake in Alberta using steam-assisted gravity drainage.
Melones Oil Field
Melones Oil Field is an onshore heavy-oil field in Anzoátegui state, Venezuela, discovered in 1955 by Mene Grande Oil Co. and currently operated by Territorio under a contract with PDVSA.
Mene Grande Oil Field
The Mene Grande oil field is an oil field on Lake Maracaibo in Zulia, Venezuela, discovered in 1914 and regarded as the country's first giant field.
Menzel Ledjmet Nord Oil Field
Menzel Ledjmet Nord (MLN) is an onshore oil field in Block 405a of Algeria's Berkine Basin, discovered in 1996 and producing since 2003, operated by Pertamina.
Meota East Colony Oil and Gas Pool
The Meota East Colony Sand Pool, code 100020, is a heavy-oil pool near Meota, Saskatchewan, produced by SAGD and operated by Strathcona Resources since 2020.
Meota Lloydminster Oil Pool
The Meota Lloydminster Oil Pool is an operating oil pool in Saskatchewan, Canada, discovered in 1974 and developed by steam injection in the Lloydminster heavy oil district.
Mercuria
Mercuria is a Geneva-based independent energy and commodity trading group founded in 2004 by Swiss traders Marco Dunand and Daniel Jaeggi, generating over $100 billion in annual turnover.
Meren Energy
Meren Energy, formerly Africa Oil Corp., is a Canadian oil and gas company with producing deepwater fields offshore Nigeria and interests in Namibia and South Africa.
Mero (company)
MERO ČR, a.s. is the Czech state-owned operator of the country's crude oil pipeline and storage infrastructure, founded in 1994 and 100% owned by the Czech Ministry of Finance.
Mero Oil Field
Mero (Campo de Mero) is a giant ultra-deepwater oil field in the pre-salt Santos Basin, about 180 km off Rio de Janeiro, discovered in 2010 and operated by Petrobras.
Mesaieed
Mesaieed (مسيعيد), also known as Umm Said, is an industrial city and port about 40 km south of Doha, Qatar, handling crude oil exports and refining.
Messla Oil Field
Messla Oil Field (حقل مسلة) is a major oil field in Libya's Sirt Basin, discovered in 1971 and operated by AGOCO, a National Oil Corporation subsidiary.
Mexican Eagle Oil
Mexican Eagle Oil (Compañía Mexicana de Petróleo El Águila) was an oil company founded by Weetman Pearson that dominated Mexican petroleum until Shell bought control in 1919.
Miandoum Oil Field
Miandoum Oil Field is an onshore oil field in the Doba Basin of southern Chad, discovered in 1975 and the first Doba field to produce, in July 2003.
Microbial enhanced oil recovery
Microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) is a petroleum engineering method that injects microorganisms and nutrients into oil reservoirs, where their metabolites mobilize residual oil; it is low-cost but rarely applied.
Microcrystalline wax
Microcrystalline wax (E 905), also known as petroleum wax, is a petroleum-derived wax with a dense, fine-crystal structure that makes it more flexible, adhesive, and crack-resistant than paraffin wax.
Midland Crude Oil
Midland crude oil, usually called WTI Midland, is unblended light sweet crude from the Permian Basin delivered at Midland, Texas, and since 2023 a grade in the Dated Brent benchmark.
Midway-Sunset Oil Field
The Midway-Sunset Oil Field is a giant heavy-oil field in Kern County, California, the largest oil field in the continental United States by oil in place.
Miles C. Leverett
Miles C. Leverett (1910–2001) was an American chemical engineer who worked on the Manhattan Project's plutonium reactors and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1984.
Milne Point Oil and Gas Field
Milne Point is an oil and gas field on the Alaska North Slope, about 30 miles northwest of Prudhoe Bay, discovered in 1969 and producing heavy crude.
Mina al-Ahmadi
Mina al-Ahmadi (مصفاة ميناء الأحمدي) is Kuwait's oldest oil refinery and export terminal on the Gulf coast, operated by KNPC and refining 346,000 barrels per day.
Minagish Oil and Gas Field
The Minagish Oil and Gas Field is an onshore oil field in west Kuwait, about 40 km west of Burgan, operated by Kuwait Oil Company and producing since 1961.
Minas Oil Field
The Minas oil field is a giant onshore oil field in Riau province, central Sumatra, Indonesia, discovered in 1944 by Caltex and the largest known oil field in Southeast Asia.
Miranga Oil and Gas Field
Miranga is an onshore oil and gas field in the Recôncavo Basin in Pojuca, Bahia, Brazil, discovered in June 1965, with about 225 million barrels of cumulative oil production.
MiRO Karlsruhe Refinery
The MiRO Karlsruhe Refinery (Mineraloelraffinerie Oberrhein) is an oil refinery on the Rhine in Karlsruhe, Germany, formed in 1996 and the largest fuel producer in Germany.
Mishkinskoye Oil Field
Mishkinskoye Oil Field (Мишкинское месторождение) is one of the largest oil fields in Udmurtia, Russia, discovered in 1966 and operated by Udmurtneft under Rosneft and Sinopec, with more than 42 million tonnes produced by 2023.
Mittelplate/Dieksand Oil and Gas Field
Mittelplate/Dieksand is Germany's largest oil field, in the Wadden Sea tidal flats off Dithmarschen in Schleswig-Holstein, produced since 1987 from an artificial offshore island and onshore extended-reach wells, and slated to end production by 2041.