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Bin Umar
Bin Umar, also written Bin Omar and historically Nahr Bin Umar, is a super-giant oil and gas field in Basra province, southern Iraq, with reserves of more than 5 billion barrels.
Bir El Msana Oil Field
Bir El Msana (BMS) is an onshore oil field in the Berkine basin of eastern Algeria, operated by Cepsa with Sonatrach and producing about 12,500 barrels of oil per day since 2015.
Bisat Oil Field
Bisat Oil Field is an onshore oil field in Oman's Block 60, discovered in 2017 and operated by OQEP, producing crude from the Shuaiba limestone formation.
Bitumen
Bitumen, or asphaltic bitumen, is a highly viscous hydrocarbon mixture found chiefly in Alberta's oil sands, also the refinery binder, mostly used in road paving, that holds asphalt pavement together.
Black Stone Minerals
Black Stone Minerals is a publicly traded Delaware limited partnership, headquartered in Houston, that owns oil and natural gas mineral and royalty interests across 41 states.
Blake Oil and Gas Field
Blake is an oil and gas field in the UK North Sea, about 120 km northeast of Aberdeen, discovered in 1997 and onstream since 2001.
Blending (refinery)
Blending in a petroleum refinery mixes semi-finished blendstocks like reformate, alkylate, and butane into finished gasoline and diesel meeting commercial specifications, capturing a large share of refining margin.
Block 6 (Oman)
Block 6 is Petroleum Development Oman's main onshore oil and gas concession in Oman, covering roughly a third of the country and most of its oil output.
Bloque VII Ceuta Oil Field
Bloque VII Ceuta is an operating oil field in Lake Maracaibo, western Venezuela, discovered in April 1956 by Mene Grande Oil Company and developed by the Petrozamora joint venture.
Blowout (well drilling)
A blowout, also called an oil gusher, is the unintentional, uncontrolled escape of oil or gas from a well when formation pressure exceeds drilling fluid pressure.
Blowout preventer
A blowout preventer (BOP) is a large valve assembly stacked above a wellhead to seal the well against uncontrolled pressure, first designed by Harry Cameron and Jim Abercrombie in 1922.
BlueNord
BlueNord ASA, formerly Norwegian Energy Company (Noreco), is an Oslo Stock Exchange-listed oil and gas company producing in the Danish North Sea, where it is the second-largest producer.
Bobrovskoye Oil Field
Bobrovskoye Oil Field is an operating onshore oil field in Orenburg region, Russia, discovered in 1964 and operated by Orenburgneft, a Rosneft subsidiary, with more than 72 million tonnes produced.
Bokor Oil Field
The Bokor Oil Field is an offshore oil field in the Baram Delta off Sarawak, Malaysia, discovered in 1971 and producing since 1982, operated by Petronas Carigali.
Bolontikú Oil and Gas Field
Bolontikú is an offshore oil field operated by Pemex in the southwest marine region of the Gulf of Mexico, producing 37-degree-API volatile oil from naturally fractured reservoirs.
Bombay High
Bombay High, renamed Mumbai High, is a giant offshore oil and gas field in the Arabian Sea about 160 km west of Mumbai, discovered in 1974 and operated by ONGC.
Bonga Field
Bonga Field is a deep-water oil and gas field in the Niger Delta about 120 km off Nigeria, discovered by Shell in 1995 and producing since 2005.
Bongkot South Oil and Gas Field
Bongkot South is a natural gas and condensate field in the Gulf of Thailand, forming the southern part of the Bongkot field, Thailand's largest, with production starting in 2012.
Bonny Light
Bonny Light is a light, sweet Nigerian crude oil grade exported through the Bonny terminal in Rivers State and part of the OPEC Reference Basket.
Bonny Oil Field
The Bonny Oil Field is an operating conventional oil field offshore Nigeria in the southeastern Niger Delta, under OML 52, operated by Amni International with NNPC holding 60 percent.
Bonny Terminal
The Bonny Terminal, formally the Bonny Oil and Gas Terminal, is a crude oil export terminal on Bonny Island, Rivers State, Nigeria, commissioned by Shell in April 1961.
Borealis Oil Field
Borealis is an onshore conventional oil field on the western edge of the Prudhoe Bay Unit on Alaska's North Slope, discovered in 1969 and producing since 2001.
Boscán Oil and Gas Field
The Boscán Oil and Gas Field is a giant heavy-oil field in western Venezuela's Zulia state, discovered in 1946 and producing about 10° API crude near Lake Maracaibo.
Boubyan Petrochemical Company
Boubyan Petrochemical Company (شركة بوبيان للبتروكيماويات) is a Kuwaiti holding company founded in 1995, the first private-sector investor in Kuwait's petrochemical sector, holding stakes in Equate and TKOC.
Bøyla
Bøyla is an oil field in the central Norwegian North Sea, about 28 kilometers south of Alvheim, discovered in 2009 with production starting in January 2015.
BP
BP, also known as British Petroleum, is a British oil and gas company headquartered in London. It began in 1909 as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, developer of the first commercial Middle East oil discovery.
Brage Oil and Gas Field
Brage is an oil and gas field in the northern Norwegian North Sea, about 125 kilometers west of Bergen, producing since 1993 and currently operated by OKEA ASA.
Brava Energia
Brava Energia is a Brazilian independent oil and gas company formed in 2024 through the merger of Enauta and 3R Petroleum, trading on the B3 exchange as BRAV3.
Bream Oil and Gas Field
Bream is an oil and gas field in the Gippsland Basin of Bass Strait, offshore Victoria, Australia, discovered in April 1969 and produced through the Bream A and Bream B platforms.
Breidablikk Oil Field
Breidablikk is an oil field in the central Norwegian North Sea with about 190 million barrels of recoverable oil, developed as a subsea tie-back to the Grane platform and producing since October 2023.