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Nashpa Oil and Gas Field

The Nashpa Oil and Gas Field is an onshore oil and gas field in Karak District, northwestern Pakistan, discovered in 2009 and operated by OGDCL.

Nasiriyah Field

Nasiriyah Field (الناصرية), also written Nassiriya, is a large onshore oil field in southern Iraq, about 200 km northwest of Basra, with estimated recoverable reserves of 4.4 billion barrels.

Nasr Oil Field

Nasr Oil Field, also called Al Nasr, is an offshore oil field in Abu Dhabi waters, discovered in 1971 and producing first oil in 2015.

National Iranian Oil

National Iranian Oil Company is the state-owned oil enterprise of Iran, created in 1951 to nationalize the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's assets and now a target of US sanctions.

Navajo Refinery

The Navajo Refinery is a petroleum refinery in Artesia, New Mexico, built in 1925 and owned by HF Sinclair, which processes Permian Basin crude for southwestern markets.

Ndungu Oil Field

Ndungu is a deepwater oil field in Block 15/06, offshore Angola, discovered in 2019 and developed by Azule Energy to a peak of 60,000 barrels per day.

Neftyanye Kamni

Neftyanye Kamni (Neft Daşları, "Oil Rocks") is an offshore oil field and settlement in the Caspian Sea off Azerbaijan, site of the first commercial offshore oil production in open sea.

Nelson Complexity Index

The Nelson Complexity Index (NCI) is a measure of the sophistication and capital intensity of a petroleum refinery, developed by Wilbur L. Nelson in the 1960s; refineries scoring above 15 are very complex.

Nelson Oil and Gas Field

The Nelson oil and gas field is a producing oil field in the UK Central North Sea, about 200 kilometers east of Aberdeen, discovered in 1988 and operated by Shell.

Nemba Oil and Gas Field

The Nemba Oil and Gas Field is an offshore oil field in Block 0 about 60 kilometers off Cabinda, Angola, discovered in 1990 and operated by Chevron, with first production in 1996.

Nene Marine Oil and Gas Field

Nene Marine, also known as Nené Marine, is an offshore oil and gas field in the Republic of the Congo operated by Eni, producing since 2014.

Neutron logging

Neutron logging is a borehole geophysical method that lowers a neutron source into a well and measures neutrons or gamma rays to estimate porosity, hydrogen content, and fluid saturation.

New York Harbor 2-1-1 crack

The New York Harbor 2-1-1 crack is a refining-margin benchmark measuring two barrels of WTI crude against one barrel each of NYMEX gasoline and ultra-low sulfur diesel.

NewMed Energy

NewMed Energy, formerly Delek Drilling, is an Israeli publicly traded partnership exploring for and producing natural gas, mainly in the Eastern Mediterranean. It holds 45.34% of Leviathan, the largest gas field in the Mediterranean.

Newpark Resources

Newpark Resources, Inc. was an American oilfield services company headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, known for DURA-BASE composite matting and drilling fluids, renamed NPK International Inc. in 2024.

NGL Energy Partners

NGL Energy Partners is an American midstream energy partnership headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, formed in 2010, best known for transporting and disposing of produced water from oil and gas production.

Ngujima-Yin

Ngujima-Yin is a floating production storage and offloading vessel operated by Woodside Energy, producing oil from the Vincent field and the Greater Enfield tieback offshore Western Australia since 2008.

Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, known as NNPC Limited, is Nigeria's fully state-owned national oil company, the commercial successor to the old NNPC corporation since 2022.

Nikaitchuq Oil and Gas Field

Nikaitchuq is an offshore oil field in shallow Beaufort Sea waters off Alaska's North Slope near Oliktok Point, producing heavy oil since 2011 with reserves of 220 million barrels.

Nilepet (South Sudan)

Nilepet, the Nile Petroleum Corporation, is South Sudan's state-owned national oil and gas company, incorporated in 2009 to hold the government's stakes in oil consortia.

Nimr oil field

Nimr oil field is a cluster of oil fields in southern Oman, discovered in 1980 and operated by Petroleum Development Oman, known for polymer EOR.

Nine Energy Service

Nine Energy Service is a North American oilfield services company providing cementing, completion tools, wireline, and coiled tubing services across major United States and Canadian basins.

Ninian field

The Ninian field is an oil field in the East Shetland Basin of the UK North Sea, discovered in 1974, producing through three platforms known as the Ninian Hub.

Nipisi Oil and Gas Field

Nipisi is an oil and gas field in northwestern Alberta, Canada, discovered in 1965, with an estimated 909 million barrels of original oil in place.

Nivagalskoye Oil Field

The Nivagalskoye Oil Field (Нивагальское месторождение) is an oil field in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Western Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1982 and producing since 1985 under LUKOIL-West Siberia.

NK Neftisa JSC

NK Neftisa JSC (АО «НК «Нефтиса») is a Russian oil production holding founded in 2008 by Mikhail Gutseriev, uniting more than 20 enterprises across seven regions of Russia.

No. 2 diesel

No. 2 diesel is a middle-distillate petroleum fuel for high-speed diesel engines in trucks and locomotives, the most common grade sold at United States retail pumps.

Noble Energy

Noble Energy was a Houston-based American oil and natural gas exploration and production company, active from 1932, known for Israel's Tamar and Leviathan gas fields.

Nohoch Oil and Gas Field

Nohoch is an oil and gas field in the Bay of Campeche off the Yucatan Peninsula, one of the four original fields of Mexico's Cantarell complex, operated by Pemex.

Nong Yao Oil and Gas Field

Nong Yao (นงเยาว์) is an offshore oil field in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Thailand, producing sweet crude since June 2015 under Valeura Energy.