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Paradip–Haldia–Barauni Crude Oil Pipeline
The Paradip–Haldia–Barauni Crude Oil Pipeline (PHBPL) is IndianOil's east coast crude oil pipeline, which unloads crude from tankers at Paradip, Odisha, and feeds the Haldia and Barauni refineries.
Paradise Fossil Plant
Paradise Fossil Plant was a coal-fired power station owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority in western Kentucky, built between 1959 and 1970 and retired by 2020.
Paraffin wax
Paraffin wax, also known as petroleum wax, is a white, odorless waxy solid of straight-chain saturated hydrocarbons derived from petroleum, used in candles, packaging, cosmetics, and thermal energy storage.
Paraffinic Froth Treatment
Paraffinic froth treatment (PFT) is an oil sands bitumen cleaning process, first commercialized by Albian Sands in 2002, in which a paraffinic solvent precipitates asphaltenes from bitumen froth.
Paramount Resources
Paramount Resources is a Canadian independent oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, founded by geologist Clay Riddell and public since 1978.
Paraná-Uruguayana Gas Pipeline
The Paraná-Uruguayana Gas Pipeline (Gasoducto Paraná-Uruguayana) runs about 437 km from Entre Ríos, Argentina, to Uruguaiana, Brazil, inaugurated in 2000 as Argentina's first gas export pipeline to Brazil.
Parand power station
Parand power station (نیروگاه پرند) is a gas-fired combined-cycle power plant in Parand, southwest of Tehran, Iran, with a capacity of about 1,500 to 1,668 MW.
Parco refinery
The Parco refinery is a 94,000 barrel-per-day oil refinery in Sinclair, Wyoming, opened in 1923 and owned by HF Sinclair since 2022; it serves the Rocky Mountain region.
Parex Resources
Parex Resources is a Canadian oil and gas company focused on Colombia, headquartered in Calgary and founded in 2009 as a spin-off from Petro Andina Resources.
Parichha power station
Parichha Thermal Power Station is a coal-fired power station in Jhansi district, Uttar Pradesh, India, run by UPRVUNL with a usable capacity of 920 MW.
Paris Agreement Capital Transition Assessment
The Paris Agreement Capital Transition Assessment (PACTA) is a free, open-source tool introduced in 2018 that measures the alignment of financial portfolios with climate decarbonization scenarios.
Paris-aligned Benchmark
The Paris-aligned Benchmark (PAB) is an EU climate benchmark category whose portfolios cut carbon intensity 50% below the market and 7% yearly toward the Paris Agreement's 1.5 °C goal.
Parish Generating Station
Parish Generating Station, formally the W. A. Parish Electric Generating Station, is a coal- and gas-fired power plant in Thompsons, Texas, near Houston, owned by NRG Energy.
Parkland Corporation
Parkland Corporation is a Canadian fuel distributor and convenience retailer headquartered in Calgary, with about 4,000 retail and commercial locations across Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean.
Parli Thermal Power Station
Parli Thermal Power Station, also written Parali TPS, is a coal-fired power station at Parli-Vaijnath in Maharashtra, India, the only coal-based project in the Marathwada region, owned by Mahagenco.
Parnaiba power station
Parnaiba power station is a complex of six natural gas-fired power plants at Santo Antônio dos Lopes, Maranhão, Brazil, owned by Eneva with 1.9 GW of capacity.
Parsa East And Kanta Basan Coal Mine
Parsa East and Kanta Basan (PEKB) is an opencast coal mine in Chhattisgarh, India, allocated to Rajasthan's RRVUNL and operated by Adani-backed PKCL since 2013.
Partial meltdowns at Leningrad and Chernobyl
Partial meltdowns at Leningrad and Chernobyl were two early RBMK reactor accidents, at Leningrad Unit 1 in 1975 and Chernobyl Unit 1 in 1982, that foreshadowed the 1986 disaster.
Partial oxidation
Partial oxidation is an exothermic reforming process in which a hydrocarbon fuel reacts with limited oxygen, producing synthesis gas, a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide.
Particle receiver
A particle receiver is a type of solar receiver for concentrating solar power in which falling sand-like particles, rather than fluid in tubes, absorb sunlight and store heat above 700 °C.
Partitioned Zone (Saudi Arabia–Kuwait)
The Partitioned Zone, also called the Neutral Zone, is an area between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia left undivided by the 1922 Uqair Convention, with oil wealth shared.
Partitioning and transmutation
Partitioning and transmutation (P&T) is a proposed nuclear fuel cycle that separates long-lived actinides from spent fuel and fissions them into shorter-lived products, reducing waste radiotoxicity.
Pasadena Refinery
The Pasadena Refinery is a Chevron-owned oil refinery in Pasadena, Texas, on the Houston Ship Channel, built in 1919 with a capacity of 125,000 barrels per day.
Pasir Coal Mine
The Pasir coal mine is a large open-pit coal mine in Paser Regency, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, operated by PT Kideco Jaya Agung and the third largest in Indonesia.
Pasir Gudang SIPP power station
The Pasir Gudang SIPP power station, formally the Sultan Ibrahim Power Plant, is a 1,440 MW gas-fired combined-cycle power station in Pasir Gudang, Johor, Malaysia, opened in 2021.
Paso Diablo Coal Mine
Paso Diablo Coal Mine (Mina Paso Diablo) is an open-pit mine in the Guasare Basin of Zulia State, Venezuela, the country's largest coal mine since 1987.
Passivating contact
A passivating contact, sometimes called a passivating junction, is a contact in a silicon solar cell that suppresses carrier recombination and transports only one carrier type to the electrode.
Passive autocatalytic hydrogen recombiner
A passive autocatalytic hydrogen recombiner (PAR) is a passive nuclear reactor safety device that recombines hydrogen and oxygen into water vapor on a catalyst without external power.
Passive house
A passive house (Passivhaus) is an ultra-low-energy building standard limiting heating demand to 15 kWh per square meter yearly, first demonstrated in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1991.
Passive House Planning Package
The Passive House Planning Package (PHPP) is an Excel-based energy balancing and design tool for energy-efficient buildings, first released by the Passive House Institute in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1997.