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El Furrial Oil Field

El Furrial Oil Field is a giant onshore oil field in Monagas state, eastern Venezuela, discovered in 1986 and producing medium-gravity crude from a deep Oligocene sandstone.

El Hamra-Sidi Krir-Alexandria Oil Pipeline

The El Hamra-Sidi Krir-Alexandria Oil Pipeline is a 90 km Egyptian crude oil pipeline carrying Western Desert crude from El Hamra port to the refineries at Alexandria.

El Hierro hydro-wind plant

The El Hierro hydro-wind plant, operated by Gorona del Viento, is a wind-pumped-hydro power station commissioned in 2014 that supplies roughly half of the Canary Island of El Hierro's electricity.

El Huemul Oil and Gas Field

El Huemul is an oil and gas field in the Golfo San Jorge Basin, Santa Cruz, Argentina, near Las Heras, operated by CGC since 2021.

El Kantara Bridge

El Kantara Bridge (Bab El Kantra Bridge), Constantine, Algeria: historic Rhumel gorge crossing rebuilt as Roman stone bridge (161), Ottoman bridge (1792), French cast-iron arch (1863), and reinforced-concrete arch (1951).

El Mangrullo Oil and Gas Field

El Mangrullo is a natural gas field in the Neuquina basin of Neuquén Province, Argentina, operated by Pampa Energía since 2016 within the Vaca Muerta play.

El Merk Oil and Gas Field

El Merk is an oil and gas condensate field in Block 208 of Algeria's Berkine basin, operated by Groupement Berkine, with first oil in March 2013 and a designed peak of about 160,000 barrels per day.

El Metropolitano

El Metropolitano is the bus rapid transit system of metropolitan Lima, Peru, operated by the city since 2010; articulated buses on about 27 km of dedicated lanes carry some 700,000 passengers a day.

El Musel LNG Terminal

The El Musel LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas plant at the port of Gijón, Asturias, Spain, opened in 2023 and owned by Enagás and Reganosa.

El Orejano Oil and Gas Field

El Orejano is a shale gas and condensate field in the Vaca Muerta formation, Neuquén Province, Argentina, discovered by YPF in 2012 and operated in a joint venture with Dow.

El Paso Natural Gas

El Paso Natural Gas is an American interstate natural gas pipeline company founded in 1928 to supply El Paso, Texas, and owned by Kinder Morgan since 2012.

El Paso Water Utilities

El Paso Water Utilities, branded El Paso Water, is the public utility supplying water, wastewater, and stormwater service to about 220,000 customers in El Paso, Texas, under the city's Public Service Board.

El Sharara Oil Field

El Sharara (حقل الشرارة) is Libya's largest oil field, in the Murzuq Basin about 800 km south of Tripoli, operated by Akakus Oil Operations and producing light crude since December 1996.

El Sharara-Az-Zawiyah Oil Pipeline

The El Sharara-Az-Zawiyah Oil Pipeline is a 723 km crude oil pipeline in Libya, carrying oil from the El Sharara oilfield to the Az-Zawiya coastal terminal.

El Sharara-Mellitah Oil Pipeline

The El Sharara-Mellitah Oil Pipeline is a 30-inch crude oil pipeline in Libya, built in 2004 and 2005, that carries El Sharara field production to Mediterranean export terminals.

El-Salam Canal

El-Salam Canal (Arabic for "Peace Canal") is an irrigation canal in northeastern Egypt that carries blended Nile and drainage water under the Suez Canal into Sinai for land reclamation.

El-Shabab power station

El-Shabab power station is a 1,500-megawatt gas-fired combined cycle power station in Tell El Kebir, Egypt, owned by East Delta Electricity Production Company and commissioned in 2011.

EL5-Energo

EL5-Energo, known until 2022 as Enel Russia, is a Russian publicly traded power generator majority-owned by LUKOIL, with 25 plants and 9.5 GW installed capacity after its 2026 merger.

Elaheh Ahmadi

Elaheh Ahmadi is an electrical engineer and associate professor at UC Santa Barbara who works on gallium nitride transistors and received a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.

Elaine Jay Dorward-King

Elaine Jay Dorward-King is an environmental strategist and mining sustainability executive who led sustainability functions at Rio Tinto and Newmont and now serves on the Sibanye-Stillwater board.

Elaine Weyuker

Elaine Weyuker is an American computer scientist known for software testing, metrics, and fault prediction, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002 and now a professor at the University of Central Florida.

Elan aqueduct

The Elan aqueduct is a gravity-fed water-supply aqueduct carrying drinking water 73 miles from the Elan Valley Reservoirs in mid Wales to Frankley Reservoir in Birmingham, opened in 1906.

Eland armoured car

The Eland is a South African four-wheeled light armored car built under license from the French Panhard AML and used by the South African Defence Force from the mid-1960s.

Elastic averaging

Elastic averaging is a precision-engineering alignment principle that joins two bodies through many compliant contact points whose errors average out under preload, in contrast to kinematic design.

Elastic band path modification

Elastic band path modification is a robot motion planning technique introduced by Sean Quinlan and Oussama Khatib in 1993, where a collision-free path deforms under artificial forces.

Elastic metamaterial

An elastic metamaterial is an engineered material that controls elastic wave propagation in solids using local resonances, creating band gaps at wavelengths far larger than its unit cell.

Elastic N.V.

Elastic N.V. is a software company that develops the Elastic Stack, built around the Elasticsearch search engine and Kibana, and sells it as Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security.

Elastic net regularization

Elastic net regularization, also known as the elastic net, is a regression method combining the lasso and ridge penalties, proposed by Hui Zou and Trevor Hastie at Stanford in 2005.

Elastic optical network

An elastic optical network (EON) is an optical transport network that allocates spectrum in small, variable-width frequency slots rather than fixed 50 or 100 GHz channels.

Elastic training

Elastic training is a distributed machine learning technique where a training job adjusts its number of workers while running, shrinking when nodes fail and growing when capacity returns.