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Khargone power station

Khargone power station, also called Khargone STPP or NTPC Khargone, is a 1,320 MW coal-fired plant in Khargone district, Madhya Pradesh, India, owned by NTPC.

Kharyaga oil field

Discovered in 1970, the Kharyaga oil field is a northern Russian onshore site on the Nenets/Komi border. It was operated by Zarubezhneft after Western interests exited in 2022.

Kharyaga-Usa Oil Pipeline

The Kharyaga-Usa oil pipeline (нефтепровод Харьяга – Уса) is a 150-kilometer Arctic pipeline carrying crude from the Kharyaga field to Usinsk, known for a major 1994 oil spill.

Khavda Renewable Energy Park

The Khavda Renewable Energy Park is a planned 30 GW hybrid solar and wind complex under construction in the Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India, near the Pakistan border.

Khazzan Gas Field

Khazzan is a giant tight gas field in central Oman, operated by BP, producing 1.5 billion cubic feet of gas per day with its neighbor Ghazeer.

KHD Humboldt Wedag

KHD Humboldt Wedag is a publicly listed German supplier of equipment, complete plants, and automation for the cement industry, headquartered in Cologne, where the business was founded in 1856.

Khesht Oil Field

Khesht Oil Field (خشت) is an onshore oil field in southern Iran, on the Fars–Bushehr border in the Zagros Mountains, which began producing oil in March 2022.

KHJ (AM)

KHJ is a 930 kHz AM radio station in Los Angeles, licensed in 1922 and best known for the Boss Radio Top 40 format it launched in 1965.

Khmeimim Air Base (قاعدة حميميم الجوية)

Khmeimim Air Base (قاعدة حميميم الجوية), also called Hmeymim Air Base, is a Syrian air base near Latakia that hosted Russia's air campaign in Syria from 2015.

Kholmogory-Klin Oil Pipeline

The Kholmogory-Klin oil pipeline (Нефтепровод Холмогоры - Клин) is a Transneft-owned trunk pipeline, built in the 1980s, carrying West Siberian crude 2,456 km to Klin near Moscow.

Khoms-Tripoli Gas Pipeline

The Khoms-Tripoli Gas Pipeline is a 34-inch natural gas pipeline in western Libya owned by the National Oil Corporation and operated by Sirte Oil Company.

KHON-TV

KHON-TV, also known as KHON2 or KHON-DT, is a Fox and CW-affiliated television station in Honolulu, Hawaii, that signed on in 1952 as KONA and is owned by Nexstar.

Khopesh

The khopesh, also known by the Egyptian term khepesh, is a Bronze Age sickle-shaped sword of ancient Egypt, around 60 cm long and typically cast in bronze, most famously associated with pharaohs like Ramesses II.

Khor Mor Oil and Gas Field

Khor Mor, also spelled Kor Mor, is a natural gas field in Sulaymaniyah governorate, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, operated by Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum since 2008.

Khorsabad Residence J

Khorsabad Residence J: one of four dignitaries' residences (K, L, J, M) at the foot of Sargon II's palace on the Dur-Sharrukin citadel; simplified two-apartment plan, single bathroom, tentatively occupied by senior eunuchs.

Khorsabad Residence K

Khorsabad Residence K, a dignitary's palace-residence on the western citadel of Dur-Sharrukin, built under Sargon II (721-705 BC), excavated by the Oriental Institute 1929-1935, famed for a 13-metre royal wall painting found in 1934.

Khorsabad Residence M

Khorsabad Residence M, one of four dignitaries' residences (K, L, J, M) on the citadel of Dur-Sharrukin, Sargon II's capital; three suites, hilani-style wings, possible harem areas, likely male royals or courtiers.

KHR-1

KHR-1 is a bipedal humanoid robot kit released in June 2004 by the Japanese manufacturer Kondo Kagaku, credited with breaking the price barrier for consumer humanoid robots.

Khronos Group

The Khronos Group, Inc. is an open, non-profit, member-driven consortium creating royalty-free standards for 3D graphics, XR, and computing, including Vulkan, OpenGL, OpenCL, WebGL, and glTF.

KHS (company)

KHS GmbH is a German manufacturer of filling and packaging systems for the beverage and liquid food industries, formed in 1993 by the merger of Holstein & Kappert and SEN, and owned by Salzgitter AG.

Khuff Gas Field

The Khuff Gas Field is a deep non-associated gas reservoir in the Permian Khuff Formation beneath Bahrain's Awali oil field, first discovered in 1948 at Awali-52.

Khufu ship

The Khufu ship, also called the Cheops ship, is one of two ancient Egyptian cedar boats buried in pits beside the Great Pyramid at Giza, discovered in 1954 and now displayed in the Grand Egyptian Museum.

Khurais oil field

Khurais oil field is a giant onshore oil field about 150 km southeast of Riyadh, discovered in 1957 and operated by Saudi Aramco with the Abu Jifan and Mazalij satellites.

Khurbet East Oil Field

Khurbet East is an oil field in Block 26 in northeastern Syria, discovered in June 2007 and brought into commercial production in July 2008, operated by Gulfsands Petroleum.

Khurja power station

Khurja power station, formally the Khurja Super Thermal Power Plant (खुर्जा सुपर थर्मल पावर परियोजना), is a 1,320 MW coal-fired power station in Bulandshahr district, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Khutala Coal Mine

Khutala Coal Mine, also known as Khutala Colliery, is a large underground bord-and-pillar thermal coal mine in the Witbank coalfield near Ogies, Mpumalanga, South Africa, operated by Seriti Power.

Ki Tae Nam

Ki Tae Nam (남기태) is a South Korean materials scientist and professor at Seoul National University known for virus-templated lithium-ion battery electrodes and peptide-directed chiral gold nanoparticles.

Kia

Kia, also known as Kia Motors, is a South Korean automobile manufacturer founded in 1944 that now builds more than 1.4 million vehicles a year as part of the Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group.

Kia Carens (기아 카렌스)

The Kia Carens, sold as the Kia Rondo in some markets, is a compact MPV introduced by Kia in 1999 and relaunched in India in 2022.

Kia Carnival

The Kia Carnival, known as the Kia Sedona in some markets, is a minivan produced by Kia since 1998, running through four generations by 2020.