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Karratha Gas Plant

The Karratha Gas Plant is an onshore gas processing facility on the Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia, operated by Woodside Energy and producing LNG since 1989.

Karsan

Karsan is a Turkish commercial vehicle manufacturer founded in 1966 in Bursa, Turkey, today known for its electric minibuses and buses, including the e-JEST and e-ATAK.

Karsten W. Jacobsen

Karsten Wedel Jacobsen is a Danish theoretical physicist at DTU known for the nudged elastic band method, the 1998 finding that nanocrystalline metals soften, and the Atomic Simulation Environment software.

Kårstø gas processing plant

The Kårstø gas processing plant (Kårstø prosessanlegg) is Europe's largest gas processing facility, in Tysvær, Norway. Opened in 1985, it handles over a quarter of Norwegian gas exports.

Kartavya Bhavan (कर्तव्य भवन)

Kartavya Bhavan (कर्तव्य भवन), known as the Common Central Secretariat, is a new government office complex in New Delhi, the first of ten buildings inaugurated by Narendra Modi in 2025.

Karun III hydroelectric plant

Karun III hydroelectric plant (نیروگاه برق آبی کارون ۳), also known as Karun 3 Dam, is a 2,000 MW hydroelectric plant on the Karun River in Khuzestan Province, Iran.

Karunesh Ganguly

Karunesh Ganguly is an American physician-scientist and neurologist, Professor of Neurology at UCSF and a San Francisco VA researcher, known for brain-machine interfaces that restore speech to paralyzed patients.

Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions

The Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions, or KKT conditions, are first-order necessary conditions for a local optimum of a nonlinear program with equality and inequality constraints, published by Kuhn and Tucker in 1951.

Kasawari Oil and Gas Field

Kasawari is a large natural gas field in Block SK316, offshore Sarawak, Malaysia, discovered by PETRONAS in 2011; first gas came in August 2024, feeding the Bintulu LNG complex.

Kasbah of Moulay Ismail

The Kasbah of Moulay Ismail (قصبة مولاي إسماعيل) is a fortified royal complex in Meknes, Morocco, built by Sultan Moulay Ismail, who made Meknes his capital.

Kaseya

Kaseya is a private software company, founded in 2000, that sells IT management and cybersecurity software to managed service providers, with more than 40,000 customers worldwide.

Kashagan Oil and Gas Field

Kashagan is a giant offshore oil and gas field in the North Caspian Sea off Kazakhstan, discovered in 2000 with recoverable oil estimated at 9–13 billion barrels.

Kashi Vishwanath Temple (काशी विश्वनाथ मंदिर)

Kashi Vishwanath Temple (काशी विश्वनाथ मंदिर) is a Hindu temple to Shiva on the western bank of the Ganges in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, enshrining one of the twelve jyotirlingas and rebuilt in 1780 by Ahilyabai Holkar.

Kashima Kyodo power station

Kashima Kyodo power station (鹿島共同発電所) is a joint-venture thermal power station in Kashima, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, rated about 1,000 MW and selling power to the adjacent steel works and TEPCO.

Kashima thermal power station

Kashima thermal power station (鹿島火力発電所) is a gas-fired power station in Kamisu, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, operated by JERA with three combined-cycle units totaling 1,260 MW.

Kashirskaya power station

The Kashirskaya power station, also known as Kashirskaya GRES, is a thermal power plant in Kashira, Moscow Region, opened in 1922 as one of the first Soviet district power stations.

Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (柏崎刈羽原子力発電所)

Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (柏崎刈羽原子力発電所) is a seven-reactor, 8,212 MW nuclear plant in Niigata, Japan, operated by TEPCO and described as the world's largest by capacity.

Kaskida

Kaskida is a deepwater oil field in the US Gulf of Mexico, discovered by BP in 2006 and scheduled to produce first oil in 2029.

Kaspar (robot)

Kaspar is a child-sized humanoid robot developed at the University of Hertfordshire, first built in 2005, whose simplified face helps children with autism learn social skills through therapy.

Kaspar J. Willam

Kaspar J. Willam (1940–2024) was an Austrian-born civil engineer who pioneered computational modeling of concrete and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2004.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus

Kaspersky Anti-Virus is a consumer antivirus product by Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow cybersecurity firm founded in 1997, now succeeded by Kaspersky Standard, Plus, and Premium plans.

Kaspersky Lab (Лаборатория Касперского)

Kaspersky Lab (Лаборатория Касперского) is a Russia-based cybersecurity and antivirus software company founded in Moscow in 1997 by Eugene Kaspersky, selling in nearly 200 countries and banned from U.S. sales in 2024.

Kaspi.kz

Kaspi.kz is a Kazakh financial technology company whose super app combines payments, e-commerce, and digital banking for about 14.7 million monthly users; it listed on Nasdaq in 2024 and expanded into Türkiye through Hepsiburada.

KAT-Coder

KAT-Coder is a line of agentic coding models from Kuaishou's KwaiKAT team, trained with reinforcement learning in executable code environments and released from October 2025.

Katana

The katana (刀), also called uchi-gatana, is a Japanese sword with a curved, single-edged blade worn edge-up, the samurai's standard long sword from the late 15th century.

Katana Engine

Katana Engine is a proprietary game engine developed in-house by Koei Tecmo, used in most of the company's titles, including Dynasty Warriors 9 and Rise of the Ronin.

Kate (text editor)

Kate, also known as the KDE Advanced Text Editor, is a free, open-source programmer's text editor developed by the KDE community, first released in 2001.

Kate Adams

Kate Adams was the name of three sidewheel packet steamboats operated out of Memphis between 1882 and 1927, carrying cotton, freight, mail, and passengers to Arkansas City, Arkansas.

Kate Darling

Kate Darling is a Swiss researcher of law, ethics, and human-robot interaction, formerly at the MIT Media Lab and now leading the RAI Institute's Robotics, Ethics & Society team.

Kate Orff

Kate Orff is an American landscape architect and founder of the New York firm SCAPE, known for Living Breakwaters off Staten Island and a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship.