The Girassol oil field was first discovered by which multinational oil and gas company?
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Girassol oil field The Girassol Oil Field is an oil field located in the Atlantic Ocean. It was discovered in 1996 and developed by BP. The oil field is operated and owned by Total S.A.. The total proven reserves of the Girassol oil field are around 700 million barrels (94×10tonnes), and production is centered on 200000 oilbbl/d .
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BP BP P.L.C., formerly British Petroleum, is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London. It is one of the world's seven oil and gas "supermajors", whose performance in 2012 made it the world's sixth-largest oil and gas company, the sixth-largest energy company by market capitalization and the company with the world's twelfth-largest revenue (turnover). It is a vertically integrated company operating in all areas of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation and trading. It also has renewable energy interests in biofuels and wind power.
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ExxonMobil Exxon Mobil Corporation is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Irving, Texas. It is the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company, and was formed on November 30, 1999 by the merger of Exxon (formerly Standard Oil Company of New Jersey) and Mobil (formerly the Standard Oil Company of New York).
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Heletz oil field The Heletz oil field is an Israeli oil field that was discovered in 1955. It is one of the biggest on-shore oil fields in Israel. It began production in 1960 and produces oil. Its oil proven reserves are about 94.4 Moilbbl .
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Kuwait Petroleum Corporation Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (Arabic: مؤسسة البترول الكويتية‎ ‎ ) is Kuwait's national oil company, headquartered in Kuwait City. The activities of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) are focused on petroleum exploration, production, petrochemicals, refining, marketing, and transportation. KPC produces about 7% of the world's total crude oil. KPC plans are to achieve crude oil production capacities in Kuwait of 3.0 million barrels per day by 2010, 3.5 million barrels per day by 2015 and 4.0 million barrels per day by 2020. Its revenue was US$251.94 billion in 2014.
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Triton Energy Triton Energy Limited (NYSE: OIL ) (formerly known as Triton Energy Corporation prior to March 25, 1996) was one of the largest independent oil and natural gas exploration and production companies in the United States. Triton was founded in Dallas, Texas by E.R. Wiley in 1962, and had total proved reserves of almost 300 million barrels of oil equivalent when Amerada Hess Corporation purchased it in 2001 for $3.2 billion. At the time, Triton had operations in North and South America, West Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
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Pescăruș oil field The Pescăruș oil field is an oil field located on the continental shelf of the Black Sea. It was discovered in 1999 and developed by Petrom. It began production in 2001 and produces oil. The total proven reserves of the Pescăruș oil field are around 100 million barrels (14×10tonnes), and production is centered on 5000 oilbbl/d . The field also produces around 17.9 million cubic feet/day (0.5×10m³) of gas and has reserves of 114 billion cubic feet (3.2×10m³).
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San Leon Energy San Leon Energy plc () is an independent oil and gas exploration company and is Europe's leading shale gas company by acreage. San Leon has built up a portfolio of assets located in Poland, Morocco, Western Sahara, Albania, Ireland, Spain and Italy. The company's portfolio across these geographies is made up of both conventional exploration and shale (Poland Baltic Basin, Morocco and Spain) assets.
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Changqin oil field The Changqin oil field is an oil field located in Inner Mongolia. It was discovered in 1971 and developed by China National Petroleum Corporation. It began production in 1975 and produces oil and natural gas. The total proven reserves of the Changqin oil field are around 23.8 billion barrels (3400×10tonnes), and production is centered on 472000 oilbbl/d .
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Petroleum in the United States Petroleum in the United States has been a major industry since shortly after the oil discovery in the Oil Creek area of Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1859. The petroleum industry includes exploration for, production, processing (refining), transportation, and marketing of natural gas and petroleum products. As of 2008, the U.S. was the world's third-largest oil producer (after Saudi Arabia and Russia), producing 8.5 million barrels of oil and natural gas liquids per day. The leading oil-producing area in the United States in 2014 was Texas (3.17 Moilbbl per day), followed by the federal zone of the Gulf of Mexico (1.40 Moilbbl per day), followed by North Dakota (1.09 Moilbbl per day) and California (0.50 Moilbbl per day).
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Nynas Nynas AB is a Swedish manufacturer of specialty naphthenic oils and bitumen products. Founded in 1928 as a national oil company with a traditional range of products, the company today also supplies specialist products and niche markets.
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Natural gas in Romania Romania has proven natural gas reserves of 726 billion cubic meters (25.94 trillion cubic feet) and is ranked 30th among countries with proved reserves of natural gas. About 75% of Romania's natural gas resources are located in Transylvania, especially in Mureş and Sibiu counties. The largest natural gas field in Romania is the Deleni gas field discovered in 1912 and located in the Băgaciu commune in Mureş County with proven reserves of 85 billion cubic meters or 3 trillion cubic feet. Other important gas fields include the Filitelnic gas field (40 bcm - 1,430 bcft), the Roman-Secuieni gas field (24 bcm - 850 bcft), the Voitinel gas field (11.8 bcm - 415 bcft), the Gherceşti gas field (11 bcm - 400 bcft) and the Sărmaşel gas field (10 bcm - 354 bcft) all with reserves larger than 10 billion cubic meters or 350 billion cubic feet. Currently Romania has the third largest natural gas reserves in the European Union just after the Netherlands and United Kingdom.
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Imperial Energy Corporation Imperial Energy Corporation plc is a British-based petroleum exploration and production business operating in Siberia. It is headquartered in Leeds and is a subsidiary of India's Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.
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Mittelplate Mittelplate is Germany's largest oil field which is located 7 km from the shore, in the environmentally important Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Parks tidal flats. The development of the field was done by a consortium of RWE Dea AG and Wintershall AG. By the 20th anniversary of the start of production, 20 million tonnes of crude had been produced from the field. Mittelplate field holds nearly 65% of Germany's crude oil reserves
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Beverly Hills Oil Field The Beverly Hills Oil Field is a large and currently active oil field underneath part of the city of Beverly Hills, California, USA, and portions of the adjacent city of Los Angeles. Discovered in 1900, and with a cumulative production of over 150 million barrels of oil, it ranks 39th by size among California's oil fields, and is unusual for being a large, continuously productive field in an entirely urban setting. All drilling, pumping, and processing operations for the 97 currently active wells are done from within four large "drilling islands", visible on Pico and Olympic Boulevards as large windowless buildings, from which wells slant diagonally into different parts of the producing formations, directly underneath the multimillion-dollar residences and commercial structures of one of the wealthiest cities in the United States. Annual production from the field was 1.09 million barrels in 2006, 966,000 barrels in 2007, and 874,000 in 2008, and the field retains approximately 11 million barrels of oil in reserve, as estimated by the California Department of Conservation. The three largest operators as of 2009 were independent oil companies Plains Exploration & Production, BreitBurn Energy, and Venoco, Inc.
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Sinclair Oil Corporation Sinclair Oil Corporation is an American petroleum corporation, founded by Harry F. Sinclair on May 1, 1916, as the Sinclair Oil and Refining Corporation by combining the assets of 11 small petroleum companies. Originally a New York corporation, Sinclair Oil reincorporated in Wyoming in 1976. The corporation's logo features the silhouette of a large green dinosaur.
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Oil and gas industry in India The oil and gas industry in India dates back to 1889 when the first oil deposits in the country were discovered near the town of Digboi in the state of Assam. The natural gas industry in India began in the 1960s with the discovery of gas fields in Assam and Gujarat. As on 31 March 2015, India had estimated crude oil reserves of 763.48 million tonnes and natural gas reserves of 1488.49 billion cubic meters (BCM).
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Citgo Citgo Petroleum Corporation (or Citgo) is a Venezuelan-owned American refiner, transporter and marketer of transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals and other industrial products. The company has its American headquarters in the Energy Corridor area of Houston, Texas.
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AOC Holdings AOC Holdings (AOCホールディングス株式会社 , Eiōshī Hōrudingusu Kabushiki-gaisha ) () is a large Japanese oil and natural gas company based in Tokyo, Japan and specialised in exploring, developing, producing, selling, buying and refining oil and natural gas. AOC Holdings owns several large companies like the "Arabian Oil Company", "Norske AEDC" and "AOC Egypt Petroleum Company" that operate and manage oil and gas fields in different parts of the world and the "Fuji Oil Company" that owns the Sodegaura Refinery with a capacity of 192000 oilbbl/d .
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United Gas Corporation United Gas Corporation was a major oil company from its inception in 1930 to its hostile takeover and subsequent forced merger with Pennzoil in 1968. Headquartered in Shreveport, Louisiana, United and its major subsidiaries, Union Producing Company, United Gas Pipeline Company, Atlas Processing, UGC Instruments, and Duval Mining, performed integrated exploration, production, processing, and distribution of oil and natural gas and other raw materials. Second only to Gulf Oil in size and scope, United Gas was one of the first natural gas transmission companies. In 1968, United was merged into Pennzoil, and the firm was renamed Pennzoil United, Inc. The retail gas distribution assets of United were spun off into Entex Energy in 1970. United Gas Pipeline stock was distributed to Pennzoil shareholders in 1974, and that company was eventually restructured as United Energy Resources, Inc., which was, in turn, acquired by Midcon Corporation.
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Morgan oil field The Morgan oil field is an oil field located in the Gulf of Suez. It was discovered in 1965 and developed by Gulf of Suez Petroleum Company. It began production in 1966 and produces oil and natural gas. The total proven reserves of the Morgan oil field are around 2.7 billion barrels (362×10tonnes), and production is centered on 40000 oilbbl/d .
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Júpiter Field On January 21, 2008, Petrobras announced the discovery of the Júpiter Field, a huge natural gas and condensate (very light oil) field which could equal the Lula oil field in size (5-8 billion BOE). It is located in the Santos Basin, 37 km east of Lula, 5100 m below the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in a water depth of 2187 m , 290 km from Rio de Janeiro.