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Valero Energy

Valero Energy is a San Antonio, Texas-based Fortune 500 company that refines and markets petroleum-based and low-carbon transportation fuels and petrochemical products, founded in 1980.

Valero St. Charles Refinery

The Valero St. Charles Refinery is a petroleum refinery in Norco, Louisiana, owned by Valero Energy since 2003, with a throughput capacity of 340,000 barrels per day.

Valeura Energy

Valeura Energy is a Canadian oil and gas company with four operated oil fields in the Gulf of Thailand, headquartered in Singapore and traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Valhall oil field

Valhall is a large oil field in the southern Norwegian sector of the North Sea, discovered in 1975, producing since 1982 from Cretaceous chalk and operated by Aker BP.

Valvoline

Valvoline is an American automotive lubricant brand founded in 1866 by Dr. John Ellis and trademarked as the first motor oil brand in the United States.

Van-Yeganskoye oil field

The Van-Yeganskoye field (Ван-Еганское месторождение) is an oil, gas, and condensate field in West Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1974 and operated by a Rosneft subsidiary.

Vandumbu oil field

Vandumbu is a deepwater oil field in Block 15/06, offshore Angola, about 350 km northwest of Luanda, which began producing oil in late November 2018.

Vankorskoye oil field

The Vankorskoye oil field (Ванкорское месторождение) is a large oil, gas, and condensate field in Krasnoyarsk Territory, northern Eastern Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1988 and producing commercially since 2009.

Vår Energi

Vår Energi is a Norwegian independent oil and gas company on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, created in 2018 and listed on Oslo Børs in 2022, majority-owned by Italy's Eni.

Varadero oil field

Varadero is an oil field in block 28/9a of the UK Central North Sea, about 170 km southeast of Aberdeen, discovered in 2011 and producing through the BW Catcher FPSO since January 2018.

Vat-Yeganskoye Oil Field

Vat-Yeganskoye Oil Field (Ватьеганское месторождение) is a large oil field in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of Western Siberia, Russia, operated by LUKOIL-West Siberia.

Vatinskoe Oil Field

Vatinskoe Oil Field (Ватинское месторождение) is a large onshore oil field in Western Siberia, Russia, about 50 km from Nizhnevartovsk, discovered in 1963 and operated by Slavneft-Megionneftegaz.

Veren Inc.

Veren Inc. was a Calgary-based Canadian oil and gas producer formed in 2024 when Crescent Point Energy changed its name, acquired by Whitecap Resources in May 2025.

Verkhnechonskoye Oil and Gas Field

The Verkhnechonskoye oil and gas field (Верхнечонское месторождение) in the Katangsky District of Irkutsk Region, Eastern Siberia, was discovered in 1978 and entered commercial production in 2008.

Verkhnekolik-Yeganskoye Oil and Gas Field

Verkhnekolik-Yeganskoye (Верхнеколик-Еганское) is a large oil, gas and condensate field in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of Western Siberia, Russia, about 225 km northeast of Nizhnevartovsk and operated by Rosneft's Varyeganneftegaz since 1990.

Vermelho Oil Field

The Vermelho Oil Field is an offshore oil field in the Campos Basin off Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, discovered in 1982, with recoverable oil estimated at 121.55 million barrels.

Vermilion Energy

Vermilion Energy is a Calgary-based oil and gas exploration and production company, founded in 1994, producing natural gas in Canada, Europe, and Australia under the ticker VET.

Very low sulfur fuel oil

Very low sulfur fuel oil (VLSFO) is a blended marine fuel containing no more than 0.50% sulfur, created for the IMO's 2020 global sulfur cap.

Viewfield Bakken Oil Pool

The Viewfield Bakken Oil Pool is a light oil pool in southeastern Saskatchewan, producing from the Bakken Formation and driving most Bakken production in the region.

Vigdis Oil and Gas Field

Vigdis is an oil field in Norway's Tampen area of the North Sea, on stream since 1997 and developed with subsea wells tied back to Snorre A.

Vilje (oil field)

Vilje is an oil field in the central Norwegian North Sea, discovered in 2003, that produces through three horizontal subsea wells tied back to the Alvheim FPSO.

Villano Oil and Gas Field

Villano (Campo Villano) is an oil field in Ecuador's Pastaza province, in the western Amazon rainforest. Discovered in 1992 after a redrill of a 1950s Shell dry hole, it has produced commercially since 1999.

Viper Energy

Viper Energy is a Diamondback Energy subsidiary, formed in 2014, that owns mineral and royalty interests in Permian Basin oil and gas properties and grows without capital spending.

Visbreaking

Visbreaking, short for viscosity breaking, is a mild, noncatalytic thermal cracking process used in oil refineries to reduce the viscosity of heavy residual oils into gas, naphtha, distillates, and tar.

Vista Energy

Vista Energy, S.A.B. de C.V., is a Mexican oil and gas company founded in 2017 by Miguel Galuccio that develops the Vaca Muerta shale in Argentina's Neuquén Basin.

Vivo Energy

Vivo Energy is a pan-African fuel distribution company created in 2011 when Vitol and Helios acquired Shell's downstream fuels business in Africa, with about 4,200 Shell- and Engen-branded stations.

Vladimir Filanovsky Oil and Gas Field

The Vladimir Filanovsky field is an offshore oil and gas condensate field in the northern Caspian Sea, operated by LUKOIL and the largest oil field in Russia's Caspian sector.

Voador Oil and Gas Field

The Voador oil and gas field is an offshore field in the Campos Basin about 100 miles off Brazil, discovered in 1987 and operated by Petrobras.

Vostochno-Lambeishorskoye Oil Field

Vostochno-Lambeishorskoye (Восточно-Ламбейшорское) is an oil field in the Komi Republic, Russia, in the Timan-Pechora province, discovered by LUKOIL in 2011, whose reserves grew more than sixfold to 42 million tons by 2016.

Vostochno-Messoyakhskoe Oil and Gas Field

Vostochno-Messoyakhskoe, also called East Messoyakha, is an oil and gas condensate field on the Gydan Peninsula in Russia's Yamalo-Nenets region, the northernmost producing onshore oil field in the country.