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Mier Monterrey Gas Pipeline

The Mier Monterrey Gas Pipeline is a Kinder Morgan natural gas pipeline running from the Texas border to Monterrey, completed in 2003 to supply power plants and industry.

Mighty Whale

Mighty Whale (マイティーホエール) was a floating oscillating water column wave energy converter developed by Japan's JAMSTEC and tested at sea off Gokasho Bay, Mie Prefecture, from 1998 to 2002.

Mihama Nuclear Power Plant

Mihama Nuclear Power Plant (美浜発電所) is a nuclear plant in Mihama, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, operated by Kansai Electric; in 2004 a pipe rupture at Unit 3 killed four workers.

Mikkel Oil and Gas Field

Mikkel is a gas and condensate field in the eastern Norwegian Sea, discovered in 1987 and producing since 2003, operated by Equinor as a subsea tie-back to the Åsgard B platform.

Miles C. Leverett

Miles C. Leverett (1910–2001) was an American chemical engineer who worked on the Manhattan Project's plutonium reactors and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1984.

Mill Creek Station

Mill Creek Generating Station is a coal- and natural gas-fired power plant owned by Louisville Gas and Electric in southwest Louisville, Kentucky, operating since 1972 with about 1,465 megawatts of coal capacity.

Millennium Pipeline

The Millennium Pipeline is a 266-mile interstate natural gas pipeline in southern New York, running from Corning to Ramapo and delivering shale gas to New York and New England.

Miller Steam Plant

The Miller Steam Plant, formally the James H. Miller, Jr. Electric Generating Plant and commonly called Plant Miller, is a coal-fired power station in West Jefferson, Alabama.

Millmerran power station

Millmerran power station is an 852 MW black-coal-fired minemouth base load power station near Millmerran in southwest Queensland, about 215 km west of Brisbane, in commercial operation since 2002.

Millstone Nuclear Power Plant

The Millstone Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Waterford, Connecticut, on Long Island Sound, whose two pressurized water reactors supply much of New England's electricity.

Milne Point Oil and Gas Field

Milne Point is an oil and gas field on the Alaska North Slope, about 30 miles northwest of Prudhoe Bay, discovered in 1969 and producing heavy crude.

Milton Levenson

Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976, Milton Levenson was a nuclear engineer known for his work on fast reactor technology and fuel reprocessing.

Mina al-Ahmadi

Mina al-Ahmadi (مصفاة ميناء الأحمدي) is Kuwait's oldest oil refinery and export terminal on the Gulf coast, operated by KNPC and refining 346,000 barrels per day.

Mina Al-Ahmadi LNG Terminal

Mina Al-Ahmadi LNG Terminal, also known as the Mina al-Ahmadi GasPort, was Kuwait's first LNG import terminal, a floating unit at Mina Al-Ahmadi that operated from 2009 until 2022.

Mina do Barroso

Mina do Barroso is a proposed open-pit lithium mine near Covas do Barroso in northern Portugal, developed by Savannah Resources and holding Europe's largest battery-grade spodumene lithium resource.

Minagish Oil and Gas Field

The Minagish Oil and Gas Field is an onshore oil field in west Kuwait, about 40 km west of Burgan, operated by Kuwait Oil Company and producing since 1961.

Minami Yokohama thermal power station

Minami Yokohama thermal power station (南横浜火力発電所) is an LNG-fired power station in Isogo-ku, Yokohama, Japan, where the world's first LNG-only thermal power unit began operating in 1970.

Minami-Nagaoka Gas Field

Minami-Nagaoka Gas Field (南長岡ガス田) is one of Japan's largest onshore natural gas fields, about 10 kilometers southwest of Nagaoka City, Niigata, producing since 1984 under operator INPEX.

Minas Oil Field

The Minas oil field is a giant onshore oil field in Riau province, central Sumatra, Indonesia, discovered in 1944 by Caltex and the largest known oil field in Southeast Asia.

Mine rescue

Mine rescue is the specialized emergency response discipline in which trained teams enter underground mines after explosions, fires, floods, or collapses to evacuate trapped miners, typically wearing breathing apparatus.

Mineral Extraction Tax

The Mineral Extraction Tax (MET) is a Kazakh tax on the volume of minerals extracted by mining companies, with rates set in the Tax Code by mineral and volume.

Mingtan hydroelectric plant

The Mingtan hydroelectric plant, formally the Mingtan Pumped Storage Hydro Power Plant, is a 1,600 MW pumped-storage station in Nantou County, Taiwan, owned by Taipower.

Mingyang Smart Energy

Mingyang Smart Energy is a Chinese wind turbine manufacturer founded in 2006 in Zhongshan, Guangdong, building onshore and offshore turbines and floating platforms, and ranking third globally by 2024 installations.

Mini Maritsa Iztok

Mini Maritsa Iztok (Мини Марица-изток ЕАД) is a wholly state-owned Bulgarian company and the country's largest coal miner, extracting lignite in Stara Zagora Province for the Maritsa East power plants.

Mini-split air conditioner

A mini-split air conditioner is a ductless, split-system air conditioner or heat pump whose indoor wall or ceiling units connect by refrigerant piping to one outdoor compressor unit.

Mining and Chemical Combine

The Mining and Chemical Combine (GKhK) is a Russian nuclear enterprise in the closed city of Zheleznogorsk, established in 1953 as the third Soviet plutonium production facility.

Ministério de Minas e Energia

The Ministério de Minas e Energia (Ministry of Mines and Energy, MME) is the Brazilian federal ministry that conducts the country's energy policies and grants mining and energy concessions.

Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica

The Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica (Ministry for the Ecological Transition) is the Spanish government department responsible for climate, energy, water, and environmental policy, created in 2018.

Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Sicurezza Energetica

The Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Sicurezza Energetica, the Italian ministry of the environment and energy security, was created in 2022 and is led by Gilberto Pichetto Fratin.

Ministry of Electricity (Iraq)

The Ministry of Electricity (وزارة الكهرباء) is the Iraqi government ministry responsible for electricity policy and for managing generation, transmission, and distribution; created in 2003, it is headquartered in Baghdad.