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Kuparuk River Oil and Gas Field
The Kuparuk River Oil and Gas Field is a giant oil field on Alaska's North Slope, 40 miles west of Prudhoe Bay, discovered in 1969 and producing since 1981.
Kupe Oil and Gas Field
The Kupe Oil and Gas Field is a gas, condensate, and LPG field in New Zealand's Taranaki Basin, 30 kilometers off the South Taranaki coast, producing since December 2009.
Kuraloi A North Coal Mine
Kuraloi A North Coal Mine is a proposed 8 MTPA opencast coal mine in the IB Valley coalfield of Jharsuguda district, Odisha, India, allocated to Vedanta Limited in 2021.
Kuraray
Kuraray (クラレ) is a Japanese specialty chemicals company headquartered in Tokyo, founded in 1926, that produces PVOH resins, EVAL barrier resins, PVB interlayers, and activated carbon.
Kuratowski's theorem
Kuratowski's theorem, or Kuratowski reduction theorem, characterizes planar graphs: a graph is planar if and only if it contains no subdivision of K5 or K3,3.
Kurayashiki
Kurayashiki (蔵屋敷) were combined warehouses and residences that feudal domains used in Edo-period Japan (1603–1867) to store and sell tax rice, concentrated in Osaka, whose rice bills fed the Dojima Rice Exchange.
Kureha Corporation
Kureha Corporation (株式会社クレハ) is a Japanese specialty chemicals and plastics manufacturer headquartered in Tokyo, founded in 1944 and known for fluoropolymers, bioplastics, and packaging products.
Kurenivka tragedy
The Kurenivka tragedy (Куренівська трагедія) was a 1961 disaster in Kyiv in which a dam burst at Babyn Yar, sending a wave of mud onto the Kurenivka district and killing hundreds.
Kurganets-25 (Курганец-25)
Kurganets-25 (Курганец-25) is a 25-ton-class tracked, amphibious armored vehicle platform built by Kurganmashzavod for the Russian Army, planned as an IFV and APC, still in testing a decade after its 2015 debut.
Kuri (robot)
Kuri was a mobile home social robot developed by Mayfield Robotics, a Bosch-backed startup, sold in the US from December 2017 until operations paused in July 2018.
Kuriemat power station
Kuriemat power station, also spelled El-Kureimat, is a group of power plants on the Nile in Giza Governorate, Egypt, about 95 km south of Cairo.
Kuro Games (库洛游戏)
Kuro Games (库洛游戏) is a Chinese video game developer founded in 2014 and headquartered in Guangzhou, best known for Punishing: Gray Raven (2020) and Wuthering Waves (2024).
Kurobe Dam
Kurobe Dam is a 186 m concrete arch dam on the Kurobe River in Tateyama, Japan, built 1956 to 1963 and the tallest dam in Japan.
Kurs (docking system)
Kurs (Russian for "course") is the radio-based automated rendezvous and docking system used by Soviet and Russian Soyuz and Progress spacecraft to dock with Mir and the ISS, succeeding IGLA.
Kursk nuclear power plant
The Kursk nuclear power plant (Kursk NPP) is a Russian nuclear station in Kursk oblast with four RBMK-1000 reactors commissioned between 1976 and 1985; its replacement, Kursk II, is under construction.
Kursk submarine disaster
The Kursk submarine disaster was the sinking of the Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk in the Barents Sea on 12 August 2000, with the loss of all 118 crew members.
Kurt Akeley
Kurt Akeley is an American computer graphics researcher who led the development of OpenGL and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005.
Kurt H. Lange
Kurt H. Lange, also known as Kurt Lange, was a German engineer in metal forming who led the Universität Stuttgart's Institute for Metal Forming Technology from 1963 to 1988.
Kurt Mehlhorn
Kurt Mehlhorn is a German computer scientist known for work on algorithms, data structures, and computational geometry, and for starting the LEDA library of efficient data types and algorithms.
Kurt Petersen (engineer)
Kurt Petersen is an engineer and serial entrepreneur widely called the father of MEMS, known for his 1982 paper "Silicon as a Mechanical Material" and for co-founding six MEMS companies.
Kurt Schiffler
Kurt Schiffler (1896–1986) was a German engineer, entrepreneur, and amateur geometer who founded the educational toy firm Dusyma in 1925 and proposed the Schiffler point, a triangle center, in 1985.
Kurt Tank
Kurt Tank (Kurt Waldemar Tank, 1898 to 1983) was a German aeronautical engineer and test pilot who led Focke-Wulf's design department and created the Fw 190 fighter.
Kurt Vesterager Gothelf
Kurt Vesterager Gothelf, often published as Kurt V. Gothelf, is a Danish chemist and professor at Aarhus University whose research combines organic chemistry with DNA nanotechnology and biosensors.
KUSA (TV)
KUSA, branded 9NEWS, is an NBC-affiliated television station in Denver, Colorado, owned by Tegna. It signed on in 1952 as KBTV and has been Denver's NBC station since 1995.
Kusile power station
Kusile power station is a 4,800 MW coal-fired power station in Mpumalanga, South Africa, whose six 800 MW units make it one of the world's largest.
Kusmunda Coal Mine
The Kusmunda Coal Mine is a large opencast coal mine in Korba district, Chhattisgarh, India, operated by South Eastern Coalfields; in 2023-24 it produced over 50 million tons, second in India only to Gevra.
Kustomize
Kustomize is a template-free tool for customizing Kubernetes YAML configurations, announced by Google in 2018 and built into kubectl since Kubernetes 1.14 via the -k flag.
Kutila Mound
Kutila Mound (Kutila Mura, কুটিলা মুড়া) is a Buddhist stupa complex at Mainamati, Comilla, Bangladesh: three circular Tri-Ratna stupas with a Dharma-chakra-shaped central foundation, excavated 1955–1963.
Kutubu Oil Field
Kutubu is Papua New Guinea's first and largest commercial oil field, in the Southern Highlands Province, discovered in 1986 and producing since 1992 as the country's first petroleum export project.
Kuwait Airways (الخطوط الجوية الكويتية)
Kuwait Airways (الخطوط الجوية الكويتية) is the state-owned national flag carrier of Kuwait, founded in 1954, based at Kuwait International Airport, and serving destinations across the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.