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Bozhong 19-6 Gas Field

Bozhong 19-6 Gas Field (渤中19-6气田) is a large offshore condensate gas field in the central Bohai Sea, China, the first 100-billion-cubic-meter gas field found in the Bohai Bay Basin.

Bozi Oil and Gas Field

The Bozi Oil and Gas Field (博孜气田) is an ultra-deep gas and condensate field in the Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, China, discovered in 2019 and operated by PetroChina.

BP

BP, also known as British Petroleum, is a British oil and gas company headquartered in London. It began in 1909 as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, developer of the first commercial Middle East oil discovery.

bp pulse

bp pulse is the electric vehicle charging business of energy company bp, with around 40,000 charge points worldwide in 2025 across the US, UK, Germany, and China.

BPM Coal Mine

BPM Coal Mine is an operating surface coal mine in South Barito Regency, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, opened in 2009 and operated by PT Bara Prima Mandiri under an Indonesian production mining license.

Bracell Star power station

The Bracell Star power station, also known as UTE Bracell, is a biomass-fired cogeneration plant at Bracell's pulp mill in Lençóis Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil.

Brage Oil and Gas Field

Brage is an oil and gas field in the northern Norwegian North Sea, about 125 kilometers west of Bergen, producing since 1993 and currently operated by OKEA ASA.

Braidwood nuclear power plant

The Braidwood nuclear power plant is a two-unit Westinghouse pressurized water reactor station in Braceville, Illinois, owned by Constellation Energy and generating 2,386 MW, Illinois' largest power plant.

Brame Energy power station

Brame Energy power station, formerly the Rodemacher Power Station, is a baseload power plant operated by Cleco Power near Lena, Louisiana, with three units totaling roughly 1,600 MW.

Brandon Shores Generating Station

Brandon Shores Generating Station is a coal-fired power plant in Baltimore, Maryland, built by BGE with units online in 1984 and 1991 and now owned by Talen Energy.

Brass Creek-Forcados Oil Pipeline

The Brass Creek-Forcados Oil Pipeline is an operating crude oil pipeline in Nigeria's Niger Delta, running from Brass to Forcados and operated by Shell's Nigerian subsidiary.

Bratsk hydroelectric plant

The Bratsk hydroelectric plant (Братская ГЭС) is a 4,500 MW hydroelectric plant on the Angara River at Bratsk in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, the world's largest until 1971.

Brava Energia

Brava Energia is a Brazilian independent oil and gas company formed in 2024 through the merger of Enauta and 3R Petroleum, trading on the B3 exchange as BRAV3.

Bravus Mining and Resources

Bravus Mining and Resources, formerly Adani Mining until 2020, is the Adani Group's Australian mining arm that owns the Carmichael coal mine in central Queensland.

Brayton Point power station

Brayton Point power station was a fossil-fueled plant in Somerset, Massachusetts, on the Taunton River. At about 1,600 MW, it was New England's largest coal-fired plant until it shut down in 2017.

Brazeau River Oil and Gas Field

The Brazeau River oil and gas field is a conventional oil and gas field in west-central Alberta, Canada, about 150 km southwest of Edmonton, discovered in 1959.

Brazi power plant

The Brazi power plant is an 860 MW gas-fired combined cycle plant in Brazi, Prahova County, Romania, operated by OMV Petrom and commissioned in 2012 for €530 million.

Brazil energy crisis (2001)

The Brazil energy crisis of 2001 was a severe electricity shortage caused by drought, leading the government to impose compulsory rationing of about 20 percent of consumption.

BRE Coal Mine

The BRE coal mine is an opencast thermal coal mine at Rantau in Tapin Regency, South Kalimantan, Indonesia, operated by PT Bhumi Rantau Energi since 2010.

Breaker failure protection

Breaker failure protection, designated ANSI/IEEE device 50BF, detects when a circuit breaker fails to interrupt fault current after a trip command and then trips adjacent breakers to isolate the fault.

Breakthrough Energy

Breakthrough Energy is a network of investment funds, fellowships, and project-finance programs founded by Bill Gates in 2015 to develop technologies for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Bream Oil and Gas Field

Bream is an oil and gas field in the Gippsland Basin of Bass Strait, offshore Victoria, Australia, discovered in April 1969 and produced through the Bream A and Bream B platforms.

Brecknock gas field

The Brecknock gas field is an offshore gas and condensate field in the Browse Basin, about 425 km northwest of Broome, discovered in 1979 and still undeveloped as of 2026.

Breeder reactor

The breeder reactor is a nuclear reactor that converts fertile material into fissile material, with the defining measure being the breeding ratio; it is typically a fast neutron reactor.

Breeding (nuclear)

Breeding in nuclear technology converts fertile isotopes such as uranium-238 into fissile plutonium-239; a reactor doing it at more than replacement rate is a breeder reactor.

Breeding blanket

A breeding blanket, also called a breeder blanket, is the layer lining a fusion reactor wall that breeds tritium from lithium, extracts heat, and shields components.

Brega-Benghazi Gas Pipeline

The Brega-Benghazi Gas Pipeline is an operating natural gas pipeline owned by Libya's National Oil Corporation, running 396 km from Al Wahat to Benghazi with a capacity of 10.8 billion cubic meters per year.

Brega-Khoms Gas Pipeline

The Brega-Khoms Gas Pipeline is a 645 km natural gas pipeline in Libya, running from Marsa El Brega to Al Khoms and operated by Sirte Oil.

Breidablikk Oil Field

Breidablikk is an oil field in the central Norwegian North Sea with about 190 million barrels of recoverable oil, developed as a subsea tie-back to the Grane platform and producing since October 2023.

Brennstoffemissionshandelsgesetz

The Brennstoffemissionshandelsgesetz (BEHG, Fuel Emissions Trading Act) is a German law of 2019 establishing a national emissions trading system for CO2 from fuels used in transport and heating.