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Poza Rica Oil and Gas Field
The Poza Rica oil and gas field is a giant petroleum field in Veracruz, Mexico, discovered by Shell in 1930 and Mexico's main oil source for three decades.
Pravdinskoye Oil Field
Pravdinskoye Oil Field (Правдинское месторождение) is a large oil field in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area of Western Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1964 and producing since 1968.
Preem
Preem is a Swedish fuel company that refines and sells gasoline, diesel, and renewable fuels at its Lysekil and Gothenburg refineries. Founded in 1996, it is Sweden's largest fuel producer.
PRefChem
PRefChem (Pengerang Refining and Petrochemical) is the name for two joint ventures of PETRONAS and Saudi Aramco operating a 300,000-barrel-per-day refinery and petrochemical complex in Pengerang, Johor, Malaysia, started up in 2019.
Pressure transient analysis
Pressure transient analysis (PTA) is a well testing method that interprets pressure changes measured in a well over time to estimate permeability, skin factor, and reservoir pressure.
Primorsk (oil terminal)
Primorsk is a major Russian oil export terminal on the Gulf of Finland in Leningrad Oblast, the endpoint of Transneft's Baltic Pipeline System since 2001.
Primrose (oil sands project)
Primrose is a thermal in situ oil sands project in the Cold Lake area of northeast Alberta, owned and operated by Canadian Natural Resources Limited since 1984.
Prirazlomnoye Oil Field
Prirazlomnoye is an offshore oil field on the Pechora Sea shelf in the Russian Arctic, discovered in 1989 and producing since December 2013 from the ice-resistant platform Prirazlomnaya.
Production logging
Production logging is the set of downhole measurements, run in a producing or injecting well with the well flowing, that shows which zones contribute flow, where water or gas enters, and where leaks or channels exist.
ProPetro
ProPetro Holding Corp. is a Midland, Texas-based oilfield services company founded in 2005 that provides hydraulic fracturing, wireline, cementing, and power generation services to producers in the Permian Basin.
Prosafe
Prosafe is a Stavanger-based Norwegian offshore services company that owns semi-submersible accommodation vessels housing workers next to oil and gas installations, listed on Euronext Oslo Børs.
Proved reserves
Proved reserves are oil and gas quantities demonstrated with reasonable certainty to be commercially recoverable from known reservoirs, the most conservative tier of petroleum reserve classification.
Prudhoe Bay Oil Field
Prudhoe Bay Oil Field is a giant oil field on Alaska's Arctic coast, discovered in 1968 by ARCO and Humble Oil; it is the largest oil field in North America.
PTT PCL
PTT PCL (บริษัท ปตท.), legally PTT Public Company Limited, is Thailand's state-controlled national oil and gas company, founded in 1978, listed since 2001, and majority-owned by the Thai government.
Puerto La Cruz refinery
The Puerto La Cruz refinery (Refinería de Puerto La Cruz) is a Venezuelan crude oil refinery in Anzoátegui state, eastern Venezuela, built by Gulf Refining and operated by PDVSA since nationalization in 1976.
Puget Sound refinery
The Puget Sound Refinery is an oil refinery in Anacortes, Washington, owned by HF Sinclair since 2021 and operating since 1957, with a capacity of 149,000 barrels per day.
Pumpjack
A pumpjack, also known as a horsehead pump or nodding donkey, is the surface machine that drives a plunger pump to lift oil from a well.
Putaohua Oil Field
Putaohua Oil Field (葡萄花油田) is an oil field in the southern Daqing placanticline of the Songliao Basin in northeastern China, producing from the Putaohua reservoir.
Pyrenees Oil and Gas Field
The Pyrenees Oil and Gas Field is a group of six offshore oil fields about 45 km northwest of Exmouth, Western Australia, producing since 2010.
Qarn Alam Oil and Gas Field
Qarn Alam is an oil field in central Oman operated by Petroleum Development Oman, discovered in 1972 and home to the world's first full-field steam injection project in a fractured carbonate reservoir.
Qingcheng Shale Oil Field
Qingcheng Shale Oil Field (庆城油田) is a shale oil field in Qingyang, Gansu Province, China, discovered by PetroChina in 2019 and China's largest, with reserves exceeding 1 billion tons.
Qinhuangdao 32-6 Oil Field
Qinhuangdao 32-6 Oil Field (秦皇岛32-6油田, often abbreviated QHD 32-6) is a heavy-oil field in Bohai Bay, China, discovered by CNOOC in 1995 and producing since 2001.
Qua Iboe
Qua Iboe is a Nigerian crude oil export terminal in Akwa Ibom State, opened in the 1970s by Mobil, and the light sweet crude grade it ships.
Quaker State (motor oil)
Quaker State is an American brand of motor oil and automotive lubricants, founded by Pennsylvania crude oil producers, merged with Pennzoil in 1998, and owned by Shell since 2002.
Quesqui Oil and Gas Field
Quesqui is a giant onshore gas and condensate field in Huimanguillo, Tabasco, Mexico, discovered by Pemex in 2019 and announced as Mexico's biggest oil discovery since 1987.
Quifa Oil Field
Quifa Oil Field is a heavy-oil field in the Llanos Orientales basin of eastern Colombia, operated by Frontera Energy with Ecopetrol since commercial viability in 2010.
Qurna West 1 oil field
Qurna West 1, also known as West Qurna 1, is a giant oil field in southern Iraq producing about 550,000 barrels per day under operator PetroChina since 2024.
Qurna West 2 oil field
Qurna West 2, also known as West Qurna-2, is a giant oil field in southern Iraq near Basra, developed by Russia's Lukoil from 2010 to 2026.
R. Lyndon Arscott
R. Lyndon (Lyn) Arscott is a British petroleum engineer who led health, safety, and environment work at Chevron and the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers.
Rabasa oil field
Rabasa (Campo Rabasa) is an onshore oil and gas field near Agua Dulce, Veracruz, Mexico, discovered in 2008 and operated by Pemex, with production awarded to Latina in 2026.