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Amal Oil Field

The Amal Oil Field is a giant onshore oil field in the eastern Sirte Basin of Libya, discovered in 1959 and operated by Harouge Oil Operations.

American Petroleum Institute

The American Petroleum Institute (API) is a United States trade association for the oil and natural gas industry, founded in 1919, with more than 800 technical standards published.

Amin H. Nasser

Amin H. Nasser, also known as Amin Hassan Nasser, is a Saudi petroleum engineer serving as President and CEO of Aramco, the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, since 2015.

Amoca Oil and Gas Field

Amoca is an offshore oil and gas field in shallow water in the Bay of Campeche off Tabasco, Mexico, the largest of three fields Eni developed from 2015.

Amoco

Amoco, also known as Standard Oil of Indiana, was an American oil and chemical company headquartered in Chicago, formed in 1889 and merged with BP in 1998.

Amoco Canada

Amoco Canada Petroleum Company was a Calgary-based Canadian oil and gas producer, incorporated in 1969 as a subsidiary of Standard Oil of Indiana and best known for acquiring Dome Petroleum in 1988.

Anadarko Petroleum

Anadarko Petroleum was an American independent oil and natural gas producer headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, operating from 1986 until Occidental Petroleum acquired it in 2019.

Andes Petroleum

Andes Petroleum is a Chinese state-owned oil consortium, controlled by CNPC and Sinopec Group, that has operated oil fields in Ecuador since acquiring EnCana's assets in 2005.

Angsi Oil and Gas Field

The Angsi Oil and Gas Field is an integrated oil and gas field in the Malay Basin, about 100 miles offshore Terengganu, Malaysia, producing oil and gas since 2001.

Antero Resources

Antero Resources is an independent oil and gas company in Denver, Colorado, founded in 2002 to produce natural gas and NGLs from the Appalachian Basin.

Antwerp Refinery

The Antwerp refineries are crude-oil refineries in the port of Antwerp, Belgium, where four refineries and three steam crackers form Europe's largest integrated petrochemical cluster, led by TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil.

Anyala-Madu Oil and Gas Field

Anyala-Madu is a pair of shallow-offshore oil and gas fields in the central Niger Delta, Nigeria, operated by FIRST E&P in joint venture with NNPC, producing about 57,000 barrels daily.

APA Corporation

APA Corporation is a Houston-based independent oil and natural gas producer operating in the United States, Egypt, and the UK North Sea through its subsidiary Apache Corporation.

API gravity

API gravity, also called Degree API, is a scale in degrees expressing the density of liquid petroleum products relative to water, with fresh water at 10 degrees.

Arab Heavy (crude oil)

Arab Heavy is a high-sulfur, low-gravity crude oil produced by Saudi Aramco from the Safaniya field, the heaviest and cheapest of the five Arabian grades.

Aradel Holdings

Aradel Holdings is a Nigerian integrated energy company spanning exploration and production, gas processing, and refining, listed on the Nigerian Exchange under the ticker ARADEL.

Araucária Refinery

The Araucária Refinery, officially the Presidente Getúlio Vargas Refinery (Repar), is a Petrobras oil refinery in Araucária, Paraná, inaugurated in 1977 and producing about 12% of Brazil's petroleum derivatives.

ARCO

ARCO, or Atlantic Richfield, was an American oil and gas company formed in 1966 and known for discovering Alaska's Prudhoe Bay oil field; BP purchased it in 2000.

Argonauta Oil and Gas Field

Argonauta is an offshore oil and gas field in the Campos Basin, off Espírito Santo, Brazil, and one of the three main fields of the Parque das Conchas development.

Arkutun-Dagi Oil and Gas Field

Arkutun-Dagi (Аркутун-Даги) is an offshore oil and gas field on the shelf of Sakhalin Island, Russia, the third and last Sakhalin-1 field, producing first oil in 2015.

Arlanskoye oil field

The Arlanskoye oil field (Арланское месторождение) is a giant oil field in northwest Bashkortostan, Russia, discovered in 1955 and the largest in the republic by reserves.

As-Sarah Oil Field

The As-Sarah Oil Field, also written As Sarah, is an onshore oil field in Libya's Sirte Basin, discovered in 1989 and operated by Sarir Oil Operations.

Asab Oil Field

The Asab oil field (アサブ油田) is an onshore oil field in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, discovered in 1965 and brought into production in 1974, operated by ADNOC Onshore.

Asasa Oil Field

Asasa Oil Field is an offshore oil field about 50 km off Nigeria's Niger Delta, developed by Mobil and NNPC and brought on line in 1996.

Ascent Resources

Ascent Resources is a privately held American exploration and production company in Oklahoma City that develops Utica Shale natural gas in Ohio, the state's largest gas producer.

Ashland Oil

Ashland Oil, founded in 1924 as the Ashland Refining Company in Ashland, Kentucky, grew into one of the largest independent US refiners before becoming Ashland Inc.

Asiatic Petroleum

Asiatic Petroleum was a petroleum marketing joint venture formed in London in 1903 by Shell, Royal Dutch, and the Rothschilds, renamed The Shell Petroleum Company Ltd in 1946.

Atapu Oil and Gas Field

Atapu is a pre-salt oil field in the Santos Basin off Brazil, producing since 2020 through the FPSO P-70 in water depths of about 2,000 meters.

Athabasca Oil Corporation

Athabasca Oil Corporation is a Calgary-based Canadian oil and gas producer with SAGD bitumen projects at Leismer and Hangingstone in Alberta's Athabasca oil sands, plus Duvernay light oil.

Athabasca oil sands

The Athabasca oil sands, also called the Athabasca Tar Sands, are a large deposit of bitumen-bearing sand in northeastern Alberta near Fort McMurray, the largest of Alberta's three oil sands areas.