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Brent Crude

Brent Crude, also known as Brent Blend, is a light, sweet North Sea crude oil that serves as the pricing benchmark for roughly two-thirds of internationally traded crude.

Brent oil field

The Brent oil field was a Shell and Esso oil and gas field in the UK North Sea, producing from 1976 to 2021 and giving its name to Brent crude.

BREST-OD-300

BREST-OD-300 is a 300 MW lead-cooled fast neutron reactor developed by NIKIET and under construction at Seversk, Russia; it is the main facility of the Pilot Demonstration Energy Complex, with launch scheduled for 2026.

Bretaña Norte Oil and Gas Field

Bretaña Norte is a heavy crude oil field in Block 95 of the Marañón Basin in northern Peru, operated by PetroTal since 2018 and Peru's largest producer.

Bridger Pipeline

Bridger Pipeline LLC is a Casper, Wyoming midstream company founded in 1957 that owns more than 4,000 miles of crude oil pipelines in the Rocky Mountain region.

Bright spot (seismic)

A bright spot is a local increase of amplitude on a seismic reflection section, classically caused by gas in a sand and used as a hydrocarbon indicator.

Brightoil Petroleum Holdings Ltd

Brightoil Petroleum (Holdings) Limited (光汇石油) was a Bermuda-incorporated, Hong Kong-listed energy company in oil trading, bunkering, and upstream production, suspended since 2017 and delisted by Hong Kong's exchange in 2020.

BrightSource Energy

BrightSource Energy, founded in 2004 and headquartered in Oakland, California, builds concentrating solar power plants using power tower technology, including the Ivanpah plant in the Mojave Desert.

Briquette

A briquette is a block of compressed fuel made from loose combustible material such as coal dust, charcoal fines, peat, or biomass, formed under pressure to burn like solid fuel.

Britannia Oil and Gas Field

Britannia is a giant gas-condensate field in the UK central North Sea, about 210 km northeast of Aberdeen, discovered in 1975, producing since 1998, and now operated by Harbour Energy.

British Energy

British Energy plc was a British nuclear power company, privatized in 1996, that operated eight nuclear stations and produced about 20% of England and Wales's electricity.

BritNed

BritNed is a 1,000 MW high-voltage direct current electricity interconnector between the Isle of Grain in Kent, Great Britain, and Maasvlakte in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in operation since 2011.

BRM Commodities Exchange

BRM Commodities Exchange (Bursa Română de Marfuri) is a private Romanian commodity exchange founded in 1992, headquartered in Bucharest, which trades natural gas and electricity and is one of two gas platforms in Romania.

Broad Reach Power

Broad Reach Power was a Houston-based independent power producer, founded in 2019 by EnCap Investments, that developed utility-scale battery energy storage systems across the United States.

Broader Approach

The Broader Approach is a 2007 fusion energy research agreement between Euratom and Japan, funding three joint projects in Japan that support ITER and a future DEMO power plant.

Broadmeadow Coal Mine

Broadmeadow Coal Mine is an underground longwall coking coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin, north of Moranbah, operated by BMA and producing since August 2005.

Broadwater, Harry, Glendower Gas Field

Broadwater, Harry, Glendower Gas Field is the combined name for three coal seam gas fields in Queensland's Surat Basin, near Dalby and Tara, operated by Shell QGC.

Brodgar Oil and Gas Field

Brodgar is a high-pressure, high-temperature gas-condensate field in blocks 21/3a and 21/3b of the UK Central North Sea, tied back to the Britannia platform and producing since 2008.

Brokdorf nuclear power plant

Brokdorf nuclear power plant (Kernkraftwerk Brokdorf) was a pressurized water reactor in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, that generated electricity from 1986 until its shutdown on 31 December 2021.

Brońsko Gas Field

Brońsko is a natural gas field in western Poland, discovered in 1998 and producing since 2001 from Zechstein Limestone reefs, with initial reserves of 26.7 billion cubic meters.

Brookfield Renewable Partners

Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. is a Bermuda-based limited partnership owning one of the world's largest pure-play renewable power platforms, with about 47,000 MW across five continents.

Brownout (electricity)

A brownout is a sustained drop in supply voltage below its normal level without a full outage, named for dimmed lights, caused by grid stress or deliberate utility reductions to prevent blackout.

Browns Ferry nuclear power plant

Browns Ferry nuclear power plant is a three-unit Tennessee Valley Authority station on Wheeler Reservoir near Athens, Alabama, operating since 1974 and known for the 1975 fire that reshaped nuclear fire regulation.

Browse gas field

The Browse gas field is a group of three offshore gas fields, Torosa, Brecknock, and Calliance, discovered in 1971 about 425 kilometers north of Broome, Western Australia, and still undeveloped.

BRUA Gas Extra Pipeline

The BRUA Gas Extra Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline in Romania running from Arad to Recaș, operated by Transgaz as part of the BRUA corridor.

Bruce Mansfield power station

The Bruce Mansfield power station was a 2,490 MW coal-fired plant on the Ohio River in Shippingport, Pennsylvania, which operated from 1976 until 2019 and is being converted into a natural gas plant.

Bruce Nuclear Generating Station

The Bruce Nuclear Generating Station is an eight-unit CANDU nuclear plant on Lake Huron at Tiverton, Ontario, built between 1970 and 1987 and supplying roughly a third of Ontario's electricity.

Bruce nuclear power plant

Bruce Nuclear Power is a nuclear generating station in Tiverton, Ontario, operated by Bruce Power. It houses eight CANDU units and incorporates facilities like the Western Waste Management Facility.

Bruce Power

Bruce Power is Canada's only private sector nuclear generator, operating eight CANDU reactors at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station near Tiverton, Ontario, under lease from Ontario Power Generation since 2001.

Brunei LNG Terminal

The Brunei LNG Terminal is an onshore liquefied natural gas export plant at Lumut in Brunei's Belait District, the first large-scale LNG plant in the Western Pacific, shipping to Japan since 1972.