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Peters Max Stone
Peters Max Stone (1920–2011) was an American chemical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1969 and dean of engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Petersburg Generating Station
The Petersburg Generating Station is a coal-fired power plant owned by AES Indiana in Pike County, Indiana, whose four units were built between 1967 and 1986.
Petersen Automotive Museum
The Petersen Automotive Museum is a nonprofit automobile museum on Museum Row in Los Angeles, founded in 1994 by publisher Robert E. Petersen and his wife Margie.
Petit Saut Dam
The Petit Saut Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Sinnamary River in French Guiana, commissioned in 1994 and supplying about two thirds of the territory's electricity.
Petlyakov Pe-8
The Petlyakov Pe-8, also designated TB-7 or ANT-42, was a Soviet four-engine heavy bomber that first flew in 1936, raided Berlin in 1941, and was built in small numbers at Kazan.
Petoi
Petoi is a United States robotics company founded in 2017 by Rongzhong Li that builds open-source, programmable quadruped robots, including the Bittle robot dog and Nybble robot cat.
Petoro
Petoro is a Norwegian state-owned company in Stavanger, established in 2001 to manage the State's Direct Financial Interest in petroleum, holding state shares in fields and pipelines without operating them.
Petre Antonescu
Petre Antonescu (1873–1965) was a Romanian architect and professor, the most prolific practitioner of the Neo-Romanian style, known for Bucharest City Hall and the Arcul de Triumf.
Petre Stoica
Petre Stoica is a signal processing researcher and emeritus professor at Uppsala University in Sweden, known for system identification, spectral analysis, wireless communications, and the SPICE sparse estimation method.
Petrel-II
Petrel-II (海燕-II) is a hybrid underwater glider from Tianjin University, China, combining buoyancy gliding with a propeller; used for ocean observation and typhoon sampling since 2014.
Petro Maksymovych
Petro Maksymovych, who publishes as Peter Maksymovych, is a Ukrainian-born materials scientist known for ferroelectric nanoscience at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a Clemson University professor since 2024.
Petro-Canada
Petro-Canada is a Canadian fuel retail and refining brand, created as a federal Crown corporation in 1975 to give Canada a state-owned oil presence, and a Suncor Energy brand since 2009.
Petro-Canada Electric Highway
The Petro-Canada Electric Highway, also called Canada's Electric Highway, is a network of EV fast-charging stations along the Trans-Canada Highway, running from Victoria, British Columbia, to Stewiacke, Nova Scotia, completed in 2019.
Petro-Canada Lubricants
Petro-Canada Lubricants is a Mississauga, Ontario-based manufacturer of base oils, white oils, and finished lubricants, the largest base oil producer in Canada, owned by HF Sinclair since 2017.
Petro-Rabigh Independent Water Steam and Power Project
The Petro-Rabigh Independent Water Steam and Power Project (IWSPP) is a heavy fuel oil-fired power, desalination, and steam plant at Rabigh, Saudi Arabia, serving the Petro Rabigh complex.
Petrobangla
Petrobangla, formally the Bangladesh Oil, Gas and Mineral Corporation (বাংলাদেশ তেল, গ্যাস ও খনিজসম্পদ কর্পোরেশন), is Bangladesh's state-owned oil, gas, and mineral corporation, established in 1985 and headquartered in Dhaka.
Petrobras
Petrobras (Petróleo Brasileiro S.A.) is Brazil's state-controlled integrated energy company, created by President Getúlio Vargas in 1953 and one of the world's largest oil and gas producers.
Petrochemical
Petrochemicals are chemical products derived from converting hydrocarbon feedstocks, typically refinery products or natural gas liquids, into plastics, synthetic fibers, solvents, and fertilizers, mainly through steam cracking.
PetroChina (中国石油天然气股份有限公司)
PetroChina is a Chinese joint stock company formed from CNPC in 1999, the largest oil and gas producer in China, with shares listed in Hong Kong and Shanghai.
Petrochina Beijing Gas Pipeline
PetroChina Beijing Gas Pipeline, now PipeChina Beijing Pipeline Company, owns and operates the Shaanxi-Beijing natural gas pipeline system that has supplied over 95 percent of Beijing's gas since 1997.
Petroecuador
Petroecuador, also known as EP Petroecuador or Empresa Pública de Hidrocarburos del Ecuador, is Ecuador's state-owned national oil company, founded in 1989 from CEPE and merged with Petroamazonas in 2021.
Petrofina
Petrofina (Compagnie Financière Belge des Pétroles) was a Belgian integrated oil company founded in Brussels in 1920 and acquired by France's Total in 1999 for $12.9 billion.
Petrol engine
A petrol engine, called a gasoline engine in the United States, is a spark-ignited internal combustion engine that burns petrol, igniting the fuel-air mixture with a spark plug.
Petrol Ofisi
Petrol Ofisi is a Turkish fuel distribution and lubricants company headquartered in Istanbul, active since 1941 and operating Turkey's largest network of about 2,600 fuel stations.
Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) is India's statutory regulator of downstream petroleum and natural gas, created by the PNGRB Act of 2006 to authorize pipelines, set tariffs, and protect consumers.
Petroleum coke
Petroleum coke, also known as petcoke, is a carbon-rich solid with 90 to 95 percent carbon made when refinery residual oils crack, used mainly for electricity generation and aluminum anodes.
Petroleum Development Oman (شركة تنمية نفط عمان)
Petroleum Development Oman (شركة تنمية نفط عمان) is Oman's state-linked oil and gas company, producing over 70% of national crude from Block 6; first oil exports left in 1967.
Petroleum engineering
Petroleum engineering is the branch of engineering that extracts oil and gas from underground reservoirs through well design, drilling, and reservoir management, spanning drilling, completions, reservoir, and production disciplines.
Petroleum in the United States
Petroleum in the United States covers oil production, refining, and trade in the US, the world's largest crude producer since 2018 with record output of 13.6 million barrels per day in 2025.
Petroleum industry
The petroleum industry, also called the oil and gas industry, covers the businesses that find, extract, refine, transport, and sell crude oil and products like gasoline and diesel.