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Rabi oil field
The Rabi oil field, also called Rabi-Kounga, is a giant onshore oil field in southwestern Gabon, discovered by Shell Gabon in 1985 and Gabon's largest onshore field.
Racemosa gas field
Racemosa gas field is an operating onshore natural gas field in Mexico, wholly owned and operated by PEMEX, whose associated gas and oil output began in 2021.
Raguba oil field
The Raguba oil field is an onshore oil field in Concession 20 of Libya's central Sirte Basin, producing since 1963 and operated by state-owned Sirte Oil Company.
Rajagopal S. Raghavan
Rajagopal S. Raghavan is a petroleum reservoir engineer known for well test analysis, who retired from Phillips Petroleum in 2002 and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.
Ramadan oil field
The Ramadan oil field is an offshore oil field in the central Gulf of Suez, Egypt, discovered in 1974 with reserves of several hundred million barrels and operated by GUPCO.
Ramshir oil field
The Ramshir oil field is an onshore oil field in Khuzestan province, southwest Iran, southeast of Ahvaz, discovered in 1961 and producing from the Asmari Formation.
Ranger Energy Services
Ranger Energy Services is a Houston-based provider of high-specification well service rigs, wireline, and ancillary services, trading on the NYSE under RNGR since its 2017 IPO.
Raphia oil field
The Raphia oil field is an operating onshore oil field in Chad's Bongor Basin, operated and 90 percent owned by CNPC and 10 percent by Chad's state oil company.
Ras Fanar oil field
Ras Fanar is an offshore oil field in the Gulf of Suez, Egypt, about 3.5 km east of Ras Gharib, producing from the Nullipore carbonate reservoir since 1984.
Ras Tanura Refinery
The Ras Tanura Refinery is a 550,000-barrel-per-day crude oil refinery on Saudi Arabia's Persian Gulf coast, owned and operated by Saudi Aramco and the largest refinery in Saudi Arabia.
Ratawi oil field
The Ratawi oil field is a major oil field in Basra Governorate, southern Iraq, and since 2023 the centerpiece of TotalEnergies' $27 billion Gas Growth Integrated Project.
Rate transient analysis
Rate transient analysis (RTA) is a petroleum engineering method that uses production rates and flowing pressures to estimate permeability, fracture properties, and oil or gas in place without shutting in the well.
Ratqa and Lower Fars oil fields
Ratqa, also called South Ratqa, is a heavy oil field in northern Kuwait, where the Lower Fars reservoir holds up to 15 billion barrels of oil.
Ravva oil and gas field
The Ravva oil and gas field is a shallow offshore field in the Krishna Godavari Basin off Andhra Pradesh, India, discovered by ONGC in 1987.
Recon Technology
Recon Technology, Ltd is a China-based oilfield services company traded on NASDAQ under the ticker RCON, providing automation equipment, software, and services mainly to CNPC and Sinopec.
Reconnaissance Energy Africa
Reconnaissance Energy Africa (ReconAfrica) is a Canadian junior oil and gas company exploring in the Kavango Sedimentary Basin of northeastern Namibia and northwestern Botswana, upstream of the Okavango Delta, and listed on the TSX Venture Exchange.
Recovery factor
The recovery factor is the percentage of hydrocarbons originally in a reservoir that can be produced with current technology, ranging from 1% for tight reservoirs to 80%.
Red Adair
Red Adair, born Paul Neal Adair, was a Texan oil well firefighter who pioneered techniques and equipment for controlling oil and gas well fires, notably in Kuwait in 1991.
Redwater fractionation complex
The Redwater fractionation complex is a natural gas liquids fractionation and storage facility in Redwater, Alberta, owned by Pembina Pipeline and the largest in Canada.
Reformulated gasoline blendstock
Reformulated gasoline blendstock, or RBOB, is a low-volatility, low-octane petroleum blendstock shipped to fuel terminals, where ethanol is blended in to produce reformulated gasoline under the Clean Air Act.
Reliance BP Energy Limited
Reliance BP Energy Limited, legally Reliance BP Mobility Limited, is a joint venture of Reliance Industries and bp trading as Jio-bp, formed in 2019 to run fuel stations across India.
Renqiu oil field
The Renqiu oil field is a giant buried-hill oil field in Hebei Province, China, discovered in 1975 in the Jizhong subbasin, the first Precambrian reservoir found in China.
Repsol
Repsol S.A., known as Repsol YPF from 1999 until 2012, is a Spanish multinational energy company created by the state in 1986 and fully privatized in April 1997.
Resalat oil field
Resalat is an offshore oil field in the Persian Gulf, about 90 kilometers south of Lavan Island, Iran, discovered in 1967 and operated by IOOC.
Reserve replacement ratio
The reserve replacement ratio (RRR) is an upstream oil and gas measure dividing net proved reserves added by production; above 100% means the reserve base grew.
Reservoir characterization
Reservoir characterization is the process of integrating geological, geophysical, petrophysical, and reservoir engineering data to describe petroleum reservoir properties, particularly at locations between wells, using well logs, cores, and seismic data.
Reservoir engineering
Reservoir engineering is the branch of petroleum engineering that applies engineering principles to oil and gas reservoirs, estimating reserves and predicting fluid flow and recovery.
Reshadat oil field
Reshadat is an offshore oil field in the Persian Gulf, about 100 km southwest of Iran's Lavan Island. It was known as Rostam before the 1979 revolution.
Residue hydroconversion
Residue hydroconversion is the catalytic upgrading of petroleum residua, the heavy bottoms of crude distillation, with hydrogen, converting heavy molecules into lighter fractions while removing sulfur, nitrogen, and metals.
Resistivity logging
Resistivity logging is a well-logging technique that measures the electrical resistivity of rock formations around a borehole, used with Archie's equation to estimate porosity and water saturation in petroleum exploration.