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Vaca Muerta Sur Project

The Vaca Muerta Sur Project, or VMOS, is an Argentine pipeline and terminal that will carry shale oil from Neuquén to a deep-water export terminal.

Vacuum fermentation

Vacuum fermentation is a fermentation process operated at subatmospheric pressure so volatile products like ethanol boil off continuously, relieving product inhibition and raising ethanol productivity up to 12-fold.

Vacuum gas oil

Vacuum gas oil is a heavy intermediate petroleum fraction from vacuum distillation, boiling between 370°C and 565°C, used as feedstock for catalytic cracking and hydrocracking.

Vacuum glazing

Vacuum glazing, also called vacuum insulated glazing (VIG), is a window unit of two glass panes separated by a narrow evacuated gap, first made in 1989.

Vacuum insulated panel

A vacuum insulated panel (VIP) is a thermal insulation element whose evacuated, gas-tight sealed core gives several times better insulation than conventional materials, enabling much thinner layers.

Vacuum interrupter

A vacuum interrupter is a switching component for power circuits in which separable contacts operate in a vacuum, extinguishing the arc without air, oil, or SF₆.

Valaris

Valaris is a Bermuda-incorporated offshore drilling contractor formed from the 2019 merger of Ensco and Rowan, operating drillships and jackups worldwide and slated for acquisition by Transocean in 2026.

Valemon Oil and Gas Field

Valemon is a gas and condensate field on the Norwegian continental shelf in the northern North Sea, between the Kvitebjørn and Gullfaks South fields, producing since 2015.

Valero Energy

Valero Energy is a San Antonio, Texas-based Fortune 500 company that refines and markets petroleum-based and low-carbon transportation fuels and petrochemical products, founded in 1980.

Valero St. Charles Refinery

The Valero St. Charles Refinery is a petroleum refinery in Norco, Louisiana, owned by Valero Energy since 2003, with a throughput capacity of 340,000 barrels per day.

Vales Point power station

Vales Point power station is a 1,320 MW black-coal-fired power station on Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, owned by Sunset Power International and scheduled to retire in 2033–34.

Valeura Energy

Valeura Energy is a Canadian oil and gas company with four operated oil fields in the Gulf of Thailand, headquartered in Singapore and traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Valhall oil field

Valhall is a large oil field in the southern Norwegian sector of the North Sea, discovered in 1975, producing since 1982 from Cretaceous chalk and operated by Aker BP.

Valle de México power station

Valle de México power station (Central Termoeléctrica Valle de México, known locally as "La Termo") is a natural gas-fired plant in Acolman, State of Mexico, owned by CFE, Mexico's state electricity company.

Valle Solar Power Station

Valle Solar Power Station names two documented solar plants: a photovoltaic plant in Nacaome, Honduras, and the Valle 1 and Valle 2 trough plants in Cádiz, Spain.

Valley Crossing Pipeline

The Valley Crossing Pipeline is a 2.6 Bcf/d natural gas pipeline in South Texas, built by Spectra Energy for $1.5 billion and owned by Enbridge, serving Mexico since 2018.

Vallur Thermal Power Plant

Vallur Thermal Power Plant is a 1,500 MW coal-fired power station in Tiruvallur district, Tamil Nadu, about 20 km from Chennai, owned by NTECL, an NTPC and TANGEDCO joint venture.

Value of solar

Value of solar (VoS) is a method of compensating distributed solar generation at its calculated benefit to the utility and society rather than at the retail rate.

Valvoline

Valvoline is an American automotive lubricant brand founded in 1866 by Dr. John Ellis and trademarked as the first motor oil brand in the United States.

Van der Waals heterostructure photovoltaic

A van der Waals heterostructure photovoltaic is a solar cell whose junction is made of stacked atomically thin 2D materials held by van der Waals forces.

Van Phong power station

Van Phong power station (Vân Phong 1) is a coal-fired power station in Khánh Hòa province, Vietnam, built and financed by Japan's Sumitomo Corporation under a build-operate-transfer contract.

Van-Yeganskoye oil field

The Van-Yeganskoye field (Ван-Еганское месторождение) is an oil, gas, and condensate field in West Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1974 and operated by a Rosneft subsidiary.

Vanadium redox battery

The vanadium redox battery, or vanadium redox flow battery, is a rechargeable flow battery that stores energy in vanadium ions in sulfuric acid, pioneered in 1986.

Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant

The Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant is a Spanish nuclear power station on the Mediterranean coast in Tarragona, comprising the retired Vandellòs I and the operating Vandellòs II.

Vandumbu oil field

Vandumbu is a deepwater oil field in Block 15/06, offshore Angola, about 350 km northwest of Luanda, which began producing oil in late November 2018.

Vankor-Purpe Pipeline

The Vankor-Purpe pipeline is a Rosneft trunk oil pipeline completed in 2009, carrying Vankor field crude 578 km to Purpe, where it connects to Transneft's Eastern Siberia–Pacific Ocean export route.

Vankorskoye oil field

The Vankorskoye oil field (Ванкорское месторождение) is a large oil, gas, and condensate field in Krasnoyarsk Territory, northern Eastern Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1988 and producing commercially since 2009.

Vantage Energy II, LLC

Vantage Energy II, LLC was a Delaware natural gas company formed in 2012 and based in Englewood, Colorado, producing Marcellus Shale gas in Pennsylvania's Greene County.

Vapor barrier

A vapor barrier is a material layer in a building envelope with very low permeance to water vapor, installed to limit moisture movement through walls.

Vår Energi

Vår Energi is a Norwegian independent oil and gas company on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, created in 2018 and listed on Oslo Børs in 2022, majority-owned by Italy's Eni.