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Sable Offshore

Sable Offshore is a Houston-based independent oil and gas company that bought ExxonMobil's Santa Ynez Unit off Santa Barbara County, California, in 2024 and restarted production shut since a 2015 pipeline spill.

Sabriya field

The Sabriya field is an onshore oil and gas field in northern Kuwait, operated by Kuwait Oil Company, that with Raudhatain supplies about a quarter of Kuwait's crude.

Sacha field

The Sacha field is an oil field in Ecuador's Oriente Basin, discovered in 1969 and operated by EP Petroecuador; it is the most productive oil field in Ecuador.

SAExploration

SAExploration is a Houston-based geophysical services company that acquires seismic data for oil and gas customers on land, in shallow water, and on the ocean floor, with over 2,000 employees in ten countries.

Safah field

Safah field is an oil field in northwest Oman, discovered in 1983 and producing light 42° API crude from the Shu'aiba reservoir at about 6,500 ft depth.

Safaniya field

Safaniya field (السفانية) is an offshore oil field in the Arabian Gulf off Saudi Arabia, discovered in 1951 and regarded as the world's largest offshore oil field.

Safwan field

Safwan field (حقل سفوان) is an onshore oil field in Basra province, southern Iraq, producing since 1989, the southeasternmost dome of the Zubair field that continues into Kuwait as the Abdali field.

Sajaa field

The Sajaa field is an onshore gas and condensate field in the emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, discovered in 1980 and developed as Sharjah's first gas-condensate hub.

Sakhalin-I (Сахалин-1)

Sakhalin-I (Сахалин-1) is an oil and gas project covering the Chayvo, Odoptu, and Arkutun-Dagi fields off Sakhalin Island, Russia, known for extended-reach drilling records and ExxonMobil's 2022 exit.

Sakhalin-II

Sakhalin-II (Сахалин-2) is an oil and gas project off northeastern Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East, which produced Russia's first offshore oil in 1999 and built its first LNG plant at Prigorodnoye in 2009.

Salahuddin power station

The Salahuddin power station (محطة صلاح الدين الحرارية), also known as the Samarra Thermal Power Station, is a 1,260 MW oil-fired power station in Samarra, Iraq, owned by Iraq's Ministry of Electricity.

Salina Cruz

Salina Cruz is a city and port on the Pacific coast of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, Mexico, inaugurated as a planned port in 1907 under President Porfirio Díaz.

Salman field

The Salman field is an offshore oil and gas field in the Persian Gulf, about 144 km south of Iran's Lavan Island, producing since 1968.

Salymskoye field

The Salymskoye field is a unique-reserve oil field in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District of Western Siberia, discovered in 1965, developed since 1974, and named for the Salym group of fields.

Samaria field

The Samaria field is an onshore oil and gas field in Tabasco, Mexico, about 18 kilometers from Villahermosa, operated by Pemex and producing since the 1960s.

Samotlor Field

Samotlor Field (Самотлорское месторождение) is a giant oil and gas field in Western Siberia, near Nizhnevartovsk, and the largest oil field in Russia by initial recoverable reserves.

San Tome Oil Field

San Tome Oil Field (Campo de Petróleo San Tomé) is an operating onshore oil field in Anzoátegui state, eastern Venezuela, wholly owned by the state company PDVSA.

SandRidge Energy

SandRidge Energy is an independent oil and natural gas company founded in 2006 and headquartered in Oklahoma City, with operations in Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas, and known for Mississippian Lime development.

Sangomar oil field

Sangomar, formerly the SNE field, is a deepwater oil field offshore Senegal about 100 km south of Dakar, operated by Woodside Energy, which achieved first oil there in June 2024.

Sangos/Cinguvu Oil Field

Sangos/Cinguvu is a conventional oil field in deepwater Block 15/06 offshore Angola, the first phase of Eni's West Hub project, producing about 60,000 barrels per day in early 2015.

Santa Barbara oil spill

The Santa Barbara oil spill was a 1969 blowout at Union Oil's Platform A that oiled 90 km of California coastline and helped launch the environmental movement.

Santos Ltd

Santos Ltd is an Australian oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in Adelaide. Founded in 1954, its name stands for South Australia Northern Territory Oil Search.

São Mateus do Sul oil shale plant

The São Mateus do Sul oil shale plant is an industrial complex in Paraná, Brazil, where Petrobras's Petrosix process retorts Irati shale into oil, gas, and sulfur.

São Sebastião (Petrobras terminal)

São Sebastião, formally Terminal Aquaviário Almirante Barroso and known as Tebar, is Petrobras's largest oil terminal on the northern coast of São Paulo state, Brazil.

Sapinhoá Oil and Gas Field

Sapinhoá is a Brazilian pre-salt oil and gas field in the Santos Basin, operated by Petrobras and discovered in 2008, with recoverable resources of about 2.1 billion barrels.

Sara N. Ortwein

Sara N. Ortwein is an American petroleum engineer who spent 38.5 years at ExxonMobil, ending as president of XTO Energy, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.

Sarir Oil and Gas Field

Sarir Oil and Gas Field (حقل سرير) is a giant oil field in the Sirte Basin of southeastern Libya, the largest in Libya, discovered in 1961 with 11 to 13 billion barrels in place.

Sarnia Refinery

The Sarnia Refinery is an oil refinery in Sarnia, Ontario, owned and operated by Imperial Oil, part of an integrated refining and chemical complex on the St. Clair River.

Sarta Oil and Gas Field

The Sarta Oil and Gas Field is an oil field about 35 kilometers north of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, produced from November 2020 until its shutdown in 2023.

Sarvestan Oil and Gas Field

Sarvestan Oil and Gas Field (میدان نفتی سروستان) is an onshore oil and gas field in Fars Province, southern Iran, discovered in 1973 and inaugurated in February 2013.