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Buk reactor
The Buk, also designated BES-5, was a Soviet fast-spectrum nuclear reactor that generated about 3 kW of electricity in orbit for RORSAT radar satellites from 1970 to 1988.
Bukhara-Tashkent-Bishkek-Almaty Gas Pipeline
The Bukhara-Tashkent-Bishkek-Almaty Gas Pipeline (Russian: БГР-ТБА) is a natural gas pipeline from Uzbekistan's Bukhara gas region through Tashkent and Bishkek to Almaty, built between 1967 and 1971.
Bukhara-Ural Gas Pipeline
The Bukhara-Ural Gas Pipeline (Газопровод Бухара-Урал) is a Soviet natural gas pipeline carrying gas from the Gazli field near Bukhara, Uzbekistan, to the Urals and western Kazakhstan, commissioned in 1963 and 1965.
Bukit Tua Oil and Gas Field
Bukit Tua is an offshore oil and gas field in the Java Sea, about 110 km off East Java, Indonesia, operated by PETRONAS with first oil in 2015.
Bukpyung power station
Bukpyung power station, also known as GS Donghae power station, is a 1,190 MW anthracite coal-fired power station in Donghae, Gangwon, South Korea, opened in 2017.
Bul Hanine Oil and Gas Field
Bul Hanine (بو الحنين) is Qatar's largest offshore oil field, producing crude and gas in the Persian Gulf about 120 km east of the coast since 1972.
Bulb turbine
A bulb turbine is a water turbine with a Kaplan-type runner directly driving a generator sealed in a bulb-shaped housing inside the waterway, best suited to very low heads.
Bulga Coal Mine
Bulga Coal Mine is an open cut coal mine in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia, producing metallurgical and thermal coal near Singleton.
Bulgartransgaz
Bulgartransgaz EAD (Булгартрансгаз) is Bulgaria's state-owned natural gas transmission and storage operator, registered in 2007, running about 3,276 km of pipelines, the Chiren storage facility, and the Balkan Stream line.
Bulge wave
A bulge wave is a pressure wave that travels along a water-filled elastic tube submerged in the sea, the principle behind distensible tube wave energy converters like the Anaconda.
Bulian power station
Bulian power station (布连电厂), also rendered Bulian Power Plant, is a 1,320 MW coal-fired power plant in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, using two 660 MW ultra-supercritical air-cooled units.
Buliangou Coal Mine
Buliangou Coal Mine (不连沟煤矿) is a large underground coal mine in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, about 95 kilometers from Hohhot, operated by a Huadian and Mengtai joint venture.
Bulk heterojunction
A bulk heterojunction (BHJ) is the photoactive architecture of most organic solar cells, blending electron-donating and accepting semiconductors into one network; introduced in 1995, it drove efficiencies beyond 20 percent.
Bulk heterojunction solar cell
A bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cell is an organic photovoltaic device whose light-absorbing layer blends electron donor and acceptor materials into a nanoscale network, introduced in 1995.
Bull Mountains No. 1 Coal Mine
Bull Mountains Mine No. 1 is an underground longwall coal mine near Roundup, Montana, operated by Signal Peak Energy and exporting most of its coal to Japan and South Korea.
Bullerengue Oil and Gas Field
Bullerengue is an onshore natural gas and condensate field in Atlántico, Colombia, discovered in 2015 and operated by Lewis Energy Colombia with Hocol, an Ecopetrol subsidiary.
Bullmoose Gas Field
Bullmoose Gas Field is a sour natural gas field in the Rocky Mountain Foothills of northeastern British Columbia, about 103 km southwest of Dawson Creek, first producing in 1980.
Bulo Bulo Gas Field
Bulo Bulo Gas Field is an onshore natural gas field in Cochabamba, Bolivia, operated by YPFB Chaco S.A., in production since 2001 and supplying a fertilizer plant.
BUMA Australia
BUMA Australia is an Australian open-cut contract mining company, founded in 2021 and owned by Indonesia's PT Bukit Makmur Mandiri Utama, working mainly in Queensland's Bowen Basin.
Bumi Resources
Bumi Resources (PT Bumi Resources Tbk) is an Indonesian coal mining holding company controlled by the Bakrie family, owning Kaltim Prima Coal and Arutmin Indonesia.
Buncefield fire
The Buncefield fire was a vapor cloud explosion and five-day fire at an oil depot near Hemel Hempstead, England, on 11 December 2005, injuring 43 people.
Bunde-Etzel Gas Pipeline
The Bunde-Etzel Gas Pipeline is a 60.4 km natural gas pipeline in northwestern Germany, completed in 2011, linking the Etzel storage facility to the Dutch gas grid.
Bundesnetzagentur
The Bundesnetzagentur, abbreviated BNetzA, is Germany's federal regulatory authority for electricity, gas, telecommunications, post, and railways. It is headquartered in Bonn and was created in 1998.
Bundled conductors
Bundled conductors are phases of overhead transmission lines made of several subconductors spaced apart and acting as one, common on extra-high-voltage lines to reduce corona, power loss, and audible noise.
Bunduq Oil Field
Bunduq Oil Field (Arabic البندق) is an offshore oil field on the Qatar–Abu Dhabi maritime boundary, discovered in 1965, producing since 1975, and equally shared between the two governments.
Bunga Lavatera Oil and Gas Field
Bunga Lavatera is a conventional gas field offshore Malaysia in the PM3 Commercial Arrangement Area, discovered in 2023 and operated by Hibiscus Oil & Gas Malaysia, producing about 50 million cubic feet of gas per day.
Bunker C
Bunker C, or No. 6 fuel oil, is the heaviest residual fuel oil, used mainly as boiler fuel and marine bunker fuel, and must be heated before pumping.
Bunker fuel
Bunker fuel is the fuel oil supplied to ships for propulsion and onboard power, named for the ship's storage bunkers, with Bunker C the heaviest grade.
Burapahar Coal Mine
The Burapahar Coal Mine is a proposed coal mine in the Ib Valley coalfield, Sundargarh district, Odisha, India, allotted to Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation through a Ministry of Coal auction.
Bureyskaya hydroelectric plant
Bureyskaya hydroelectric plant (Бурейская ГЭС, also Bureya HPP) is a 2,010 MW hydroelectric station at Talakan in Amur Oblast, Russia, the largest in the Russian Far East.