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Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil is a voluntary, nonprofit multi-stakeholder association founded in Switzerland in 2004 that sets global standards for certified sustainable palm oil, including no-deforestation rules.

Route 2 Gas Pipeline

The Route 2 Gas Pipeline (Gasoduto Rota 2) is a Brazilian subsea natural gas pipeline serving the Santos Basin pre-salt fields, in operation since 2016.

Route 3 Gas Pipeline

The Route 3 Gas Pipeline (Gasoduto Rota 3) is a 355 km natural gas pipeline operated by Petrobras, carrying Santos Basin pre-salt gas to the Boaventura complex in Itaboraí, Brazil.

Roxboro Steam Plant

The Roxboro Steam Plant is a four-unit, coal-fired power station with 2,558 MW of capacity, operated by Duke Energy Progress near Semora, North Carolina, since 1966.

Rozdilna-Izmail Gas Pipeline

The Rozdilna-Izmail Gas Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline running from Rozdilna in Ukraine through southern Moldova to Izmail, part of the Trans-Balkan route to the Balkans.

Rozhkovskoye Gas and Condensate Field

The Rozhkovskoye gas and condensate field is a pre-salt gas and condensate field in West Kazakhstan, discovered in 2008, commissioned in December 2023, and operated by Ural Oil and Gas.

RSG-GAS

RSG-GAS (Reaktor Serba Guna G.A. Siwabessy) is a 30 MW multipurpose pool-type research reactor at Serpong, South Tangerang, Indonesia, and the country's largest, used for radioisotope production and neutron beam research.

RTP (tokamak)

RTP (Rijnhuizen Tokamak Project) was a medium-sized tokamak at the FOM Institute in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands, studying electron heat transport until its closure in September 1998.

Ru-based acidic oxygen-evolution catalysts

Ru-based acidic oxygen-evolution catalysts are ruthenium or ruthenium oxide electrocatalysts for the acidic oxygen evolution reaction, cheaper and more active than iridium but far less stable.

Rubiales field

The Rubiales field is a heavy oil field in the Llanos Basin near Puerto Gaitán, Colombia, discovered in 1981 and today the country's largest producer.

Ruby field

The Ruby field is a shallow-water offshore oil and gas field off the east coast of Trinidad, within the Greater Angostura Field, brought on stream in 2021.

Ruby Gas Pipeline

The Ruby Pipeline is a 680-mile, 42-inch interstate natural gas pipeline from Opal, Wyoming, to Malin, Oregon, built by El Paso and placed in service in 2011.

Ruddlesden-Popper perovskite

A Ruddlesden-Popper perovskite is a layered two-dimensional variant of the perovskite structure, named for Ruddlesden and Popper, whose late-1950s compounds underpin stable perovskite solar cells.

Ruddlesden–Popper perovskite solar cells

Ruddlesden–Popper perovskite solar cells use a layered two-dimensional perovskite light absorber whose bulky organic cations improve stability against moisture, heat, and light at some cost to efficiency.

Rudong LNG Terminal

The Rudong LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas import terminal in Rudong County, Jiangsu, China, operated by PetroChina and receiving its first cargo in 2011.

Ruijin power station

Ruijin power station (华能瑞金发电厂) is a 2,700 MW coal-fired power station in Gan County, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China, built in 2008 and expanded with two 1,000 MW ultra-supercritical units in 2021.

Rule 21 (California)

Rule 21 is a California Public Utilities Commission tariff setting interconnection requirements for generation and storage connecting to the state's investor-owned utilities' grids, first adopted in 1982.

Rulison Oil and Gas Field

Rulison Oil and Gas Field is a natural gas field in Garfield County, western Colorado, known as the site of the 1969 Project Rulison nuclear detonation.

Rumaila field

The Rumaila field (الرميلة) is a super-giant onshore oil field in southern Iraq, about 50 km west of Basra, and the country's largest producing oil field.

Rumford Power Station

Rumford Power Station is a 274.5 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle power plant in Rumford, Maine, operating since 2000 and selling into the ISO New England wholesale market.

Run-of-the-river hydroelectricity

Run-of-the-river hydroelectricity is electricity generated by channeling part of a river's flow through a penstock and using its natural elevation decline, without significant water storage; output follows the river's seasonal flow.

Rush Island power station

Rush Island power station, also called the Rush Island Energy Center, was a two-unit coal-fired power plant in Jefferson County, Missouri, owned by Ameren and retired in 2024.

Rush Lake Sparky Oil Pool

Rush Lake Sparky Oil Pool is an onshore heavy oil pool in west-central Saskatchewan near Lloydminster, discovered in 1971 and produced mainly by steam-assisted gravity drainage.

RusHydro

RusHydro (РусГидро) is Russia's state-controlled energy holding and largest hydropower producer, founded in 2004 and operating plants, grids, and retail supply across more than 30 regions.

Russia–Ukraine gas disputes

The Russia–Ukraine gas disputes were conflicts over natural gas pricing, debt, and transit that repeatedly interrupted Russian supplies to Europe, most sharply in 2006, 2009, and 2014.

Russian uranium import ban

The Russian uranium import ban is a US law banning imports of Russian low-enriched uranium, signed by President Biden in May 2024 and running through 2040.

Russkinskoye field

The Russkinskoye field (Русскинское месторождение) is a large oil field about 124 km north of Surgut in Western Siberia, discovered in 1982 and operated by Surgutneftegas through its Komsomolskneft division.

Russkoye field

The Russkoye field (Русское месторождение) is a giant high-viscosity oil field on the Yamal Peninsula in the Russian Arctic, discovered in 1968 and developed by Rosneft subsidiary Tyumenneftegaz.

RussNeft

RussNeft (РуссНефть) is a Russian vertically integrated oil company founded in Moscow in September 2002 by Mikhail Gutseriev, ranked among Russia's top 10 oil and gas companies by production.

Ruwais

Ruwais, also known as Al Ruwais Industrial City, is an industrial city in Abu Dhabi, UAE, hosting the country's largest refining and petrochemical operations, including Borouge.