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Bachaquero Oil Field
The Bachaquero Oil Field is a heavy-oil field on the eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo in Zulia, Venezuela, discovered by Shell in 1930 and operated since 2012 through the Petrozamora joint venture.
Bachaquero-Puerto Miranda Oil Pipeline
The Bachaquero-Puerto Miranda oil pipeline is a PDVSA crude oil pipeline in Zulia, Venezuela, running 66 miles from Bachaquero to the Puerto Miranda export terminal.
Bachatsky Coal Mine
The Bachatsky Coal Mine (Бачатский угольный разрез) is a large open-pit coal mine near Belovo in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, producing coal continuously since 1949 and reaching 350 million tonnes by 2017.
Back flashover
Back flashover is a flashover of a transmission line insulator from the tower side to the phase conductor, caused by a lightning stroke to the tower or shield wire raising the tower's potential.
Back surface field
The back surface field (BSF) is a heavily doped region at the rear of a silicon solar cell that repels minority carriers and reduces recombination losses.
Back-contact solar cell
A back-contact solar cell is a crystalline silicon solar cell with both contacts on the rear, eliminating front gridline shading; it holds the silicon efficiency record at 27.8%.
Back-fire
Back-fire, also known as after-fire or afterfire, is abnormal combustion in which a fuel-air mixture ignites and flame travels backward through an engine's intake manifold or carburetor.
Back-to-back converter
A back-to-back converter is an HVDC arrangement in which a rectifier and inverter share one station, connecting AC grids that are not synchronized, with no transmission line between them.
Backfitting
Backfitting is the imposition of new or modified regulatory requirements on an already licensed nuclear facility, controlled in the United States by the NRC's backfit rule, 10 CFR 50.109.
Backtracking (solar tracking)
Backtracking is a solar tracker control strategy that rotates panels away from the sun in early morning and late afternoon so one row does not shade the next.
Backward Bent Duct Buoy
The Backward Bent Duct Buoy (BBDB) is a floating wave energy converter with an L-shaped duct opening away from the waves, proposed by Yoshio Masuda in the 1980s.
Bad Creek hydroelectric plant
Bad Creek hydroelectric plant is a pumped-storage station in Oconee County, South Carolina, operated by Duke Energy Carolinas since 1991 and the largest on its system.
Badak Oil and Gas Field
The Badak Oil and Gas Field is a giant hydrocarbon field near Samarinda in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, discovered in 1972 and feeding the Badak LNG plant at Bontang.
Badarpur power station
Badarpur Thermal Power Station (BTPS) was a 720 MW coal-fired power station in South Delhi, India, operated by NTPC and closed permanently in 2018 over air pollution.
Badra Oil Field
The Badra Oil Field is an onshore oil field in eastern Iraq, discovered in 1979 and operated by Gazprom Neft since production began in 2014.
Bagasse
Bagasse, also known as megass, is the dry fibrous residue left after sugar juice is extracted from sugarcane, produced at about 300 lb per ton of cane.
Bagtiyarlyk Gas Field
Bagtiyarlyk Gas Field (Bagtyýarlyk) is a natural gas field on the Amu Darya River in eastern Turkmenistan, developed by CNPC since 2007 as the first foreign-operated gas project there.
Bahía Blanca FLNG Terminal
Bahía Blanca FLNG Terminal, also known as the Tango FLNG Terminal, was Argentina's first LNG export facility, operating at Bahía Blanca from 2019 to 2020.
Bahia FSRU
Bahia FSRU, formally the Terminal de Regaseificação de GNL da Bahia (TRBA), is an LNG import terminal near Salvador, Brazil, opened by Petrobras in 2014.
Bahman Hoveida
Bahman Hoveida is a power-systems engineer and entrepreneur who founded Open Systems International, a grid-control software supplier for electric utilities, acquired by Emerson Electric in 2021.
Bahr Es Salam Oil and Gas Field
Bahr Es Salam is Libya's largest offshore producing gas field, about 110 km off the Tripoli coast, in production since 2005 and operated by Mellitah Oil & Gas.
Bahrain Hidd FLNG Terminal
The Bahrain Hidd FLNG Terminal, also known as Bahrain LNG, is a floating LNG import and regasification terminal at Hidd, Bahrain, completed in January 2020.
Bahrain Saudi Arabia Oil Pipeline
The Bahrain Saudi Arabia Oil Pipeline, known as the AB-4 pipeline, is a crude oil pipeline from Saudi Arabia's Abqaiq plant to Bahrain's Sitra refinery, commissioned in 2018.
Bai Hassan Oil Field
Bai Hassan Oil Field (باي حسن) is an onshore oil field in northern Iraq near Kirkuk, discovered in 1953, producing since 1960, and operated by the North Oil Company.
Baihetan hydroelectric plant
The Baihetan hydroelectric plant (白鹤滩水电站) is a 16 GW hydropower station on the Jinsha River between Sichuan and Yunnan, China, the world's second largest after Three Gorges.
Baiji Thermal power station
Baiji Thermal power station (محطة كهرباء بيجي الحرارية) is a mothballed fuel-oil-fired power plant in Baiji, Iraq, commissioned in 1983 with a 1,320 MW capacity.
Bailey Coal Mine
The Bailey Coal Mine is an underground longwall coal mine near Wind Ridge in Greene County, Pennsylvania, producing about 11 million tons of coal a year.
Bailianhe Pumped Storage hydroelectric plant
Bailianhe Pumped Storage plant (白莲河抽水蓄能电站) is a pumped-storage hydroelectric plant in Luotian, Hubei, China, generating 1,200 MW from four 300 MW reversible units and serving the Central China Power Grid.
Baishan hydroelectric plant
The Baishan hydroelectric plant (白山水电站) is a large hydropower station on the upper Second Songhua River at Huadian City, Jilin Province, built from 1975 and completed in 1994.
Baixas converter station
The Baixas converter station is an HVDC converter station near Perpignan, France, the French end of the underground France–Spain interconnection, built by INELFE and opened in 2015.