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North Dakota Department of Transportation

The North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) is the North Dakota state agency that maintains over 8,500 miles of roads and issues driver licenses and vehicle registrations.

North East Link

North East Link is a freeway project in Melbourne connecting the M80 Ring Road at Greensborough with an upgraded Eastern Freeway, planned to open in 2028.

North Eastern Coalfields

North Eastern Coalfields is a coal-producing unit of Coal India Limited, headquartered at Margherita in Tinsukia district, Assam, that directly controls the coal mines of Assam and neighboring areas.

North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Ltd.

North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) is an Indian government-owned power company, incorporated in 1976 and headquartered in Shillong, operating hydro, gas, and solar plants with 2,057 MW capacity.

North Field (Tinian)

North Field is a World War II heavy-bomber airfield on the northern tip of Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands, built by U.S. Navy Seabees in 1944 and 1945.

North Field Alpha Oil and Gas Field

North Field Alpha is an offshore gas and condensate production complex in Qatar's North Field, delivering its first commercial production in 1991 and operated by QatarEnergy.

North Field Bravo Oil and Gas Field

North Field Bravo is an offshore gas production complex in Qatar's North Field, commissioned in 1996, which dehydrates gas and sends it by pipeline to Ras Laffan.

North Field East

North Field East is a Qatari liquefied natural gas expansion project at Ras Laffan, adding four LNG trains and 32 million tonnes of annual capacity, with first LNG expected around 2027.

North Field South

North Field South is the second phase of Qatar's North Field LNG expansion, with two trains adding 16 million tonnes annual capacity at Ras Laffan, operated by QatarEnergy.

North Geragai Oil Field

North Geragai Oil Field, also called Geragai North, is an onshore oil and gas field in Jambi Province, Indonesia, discovered in 1995 and operated by PetroChina.

North Giza power plant

North Giza power plant (محطة شمال الجيزة) is a 2,250 MW gas-fired combined cycle power station in Giza, Egypt, owned by the Cairo Electricity Production Company.

North Hamada Oil and Gas Field

North Hamada Oil and Gas Field (حقل شمال الحمادة) is an onshore oil and gas field in the Ghadames Basin in northwestern Libya, producing since August 2023.

North Jetty

North Jetty is the shared name for the northern jetty at paired harbor-entrance jetties, notably Grays Harbor (1916), Humboldt Bay (1891-1925, dolos-armored), and the Mouth of the Columbia River; several are famous surf breaks.

North Karanpura power station

North Karanpura Super Thermal Power Station is NTPC's 1,980 MW coal-fired station at Tandwa, Jharkhand, and its first to use air-cooled condensers, cutting water use by 60%.

North Korea and weapons of mass destruction

North Korea (DPRK) possesses nuclear weapons, an assessed large chemical weapons stockpile, and a suspected biological weapons capability, having conducted six nuclear tests between 2006 and 2017.

North Korean airbases and airfields

North Korea's airbases and airfields serve the Korean People's Army Air Force, with roughly 70 air bases, hardened underground shelters, and dozens of emergency highway landing strips.

North Korean destroyer Choe Hyon

The Choe Hyon is a North Korean guided-missile destroyer, the lead ship of its class and the largest surface combatant North Korea has built, commissioned in 2026.

North Korean destroyer Kang Kon

The North Korean destroyer Kang Kon (강건) is the second Choe Hyon-class guided-missile destroyer, which capsized at its 2025 launch and was commissioned at Wonsan in 2026.

North Korean space program

The North Korean space program (DPRK space program) is North Korea's satellite and launch-vehicle effort, which placed its first military reconnaissance satellite, Malligyong-1, in orbit in 2023.

North Luzon Expressway

The North Luzon Expressway (NLEX), also called the North Diversion Road, is a Philippine toll expressway linking Metro Manila to Bulacan and Pampanga, opened in 1968.

North Oil Company

North Oil Company is a Qatari joint venture owned 70% by QatarEnergy and 30% by TotalEnergies that has operated Qatar's largest offshore oil field, Al Shaheen, since 2017.

North Queensland Export Terminal

The North Queensland Export Terminal is a coal export terminal at the Port of Abbot Point, Queensland, opened in 1984 with a capacity of 50 million tonnes a year.

North Rankin gas field

The North Rankin gas field is a giant gas and condensate field in the Carnarvon Basin on Australia's North West Shelf, discovered in 1971 and producing since 1984.

North Road (company)

The North Road Company, commonly called North Road, is an American independent film and television studio founded in 2022 by Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, and Jesse Jacobs.

North Rumela-Khor Al-Zubair Gas Pipeline

The North Rumela-Khor Al-Zubair Gas Pipeline (انبوب غاز شمال الرميلة) is an operating natural gas pipeline in southern Iraq, owned by the Iraqi Ministry of Oil.

North Sea Canal

The North Sea Canal (Dutch: Noordzeekanaal) is a 21-kilometer ship canal connecting the port of Amsterdam directly to the North Sea at IJmuiden, opened in 1876.

North Sea Continental Shelf cases

The North Sea Continental Shelf cases were two joined proceedings before the International Court of Justice, decided on 20 February 1969, holding that the equidistance method was not obligatory.

North Sea Link

North Sea Link is a 1,400 MW submarine electricity interconnector running 720 km between Kvilldal in Norway and Blyth in England, at completion the world's longest subsea power cable.

North Sea oil

North Sea oil is crude oil produced from the North Sea seabed since the early 1970s, beginning at Norway's Ekofisk field, and its Brent crude became a global price benchmark.

North Shore Gas (WEC Energy)

North Shore Gas Company is an investor-owned natural gas utility serving 54 communities in Chicago's northern suburbs, founded in 1900 and owned by WEC Energy Group.