This page summarizes projects that propose to bring more than of new liquid fuel capacity to market with the first production of fuel beginning in 2015. This is part of the Wikipedia summary of

Oil Megaprojects Oil megaprojects are large oil field A petroleum reservoir or oil and gas reservoir is a subsurface accumulation of hydrocarbons contained in porous or fractured rock formations. Such reservoirs form when kerogen (ancient plant matter) is cr ...

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Terminology * Year Startup: year of first oil. put specific date if available. * Operator: company undertaking the project. * Area: onshore (LAND), offshore (OFF), offshore deep water (ODW), tar sands (TAR). * Type: liquid category (i.e.

Natural Gas Liquids Natural-gas condensate, also called natural gas liquids, is a low-density mixture of hydrocarbon liquids that are present as gaseous components in the raw natural gas produced from many natural gas fields. Some gas species within the raw natura ...

Natural gas condensate Natural-gas condensate, also called natural gas liquids, is a low-density mixture of hydrocarbon liquids that are present as gaseous components in the raw natural gas produced from many natural gas fields. Some gas species within the raw natura ...

Crude oil Petroleum, also known as crude oil or simply oil, is a naturally occurring, yellowish-black liquid chemical mixture found in geological formations, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons. The term ''petroleum'' refers both to naturally occurring u ...

) * Grade: oil quality (light, medium, heavy, sour) or

API gravity The American Petroleum Institute gravity, or API gravity, is a measure of how heavy or light a petroleum liquid is compared to water: if its API gravity is greater than 10, it is lighter and floats on water; if less than 10, it is heavier and sinks ...

* 2P resvs: 2P (proven + probable)

oil reserves An oil is any chemical polarity, nonpolar chemical substance that is composed primarily of hydrocarbons and is hydrophobe, hydrophobic (does not mix with water) and lipophilicity, lipophilic (mixes with other oils). Oils are usually flammable ...

giga Giga- ( or ) is a metric prefix, unit prefix in the metric system denoting a factor of a Long and short scales, short-scale billion or long-scale milliard (109 or 1,000,000,000). It has the symbol G. ''Giga-'' is derived from the Ancient Greek, ...

barrels (Gb). * GOR: The ratio of produced gas to produced oil, commonly abbreviated GOR. * Peak year: year of the production plateau/peak. * Peak: maximum production expected (thousand barrels/day). * Discovery: year of discovery. * Capital investment: expected capital cost; FID (Final Investment Decision) - If no FID, then normally no project development contracts can be awarded. For many projects, a FEED stage (Front End Engineering Design) precedes the FID. * Notes: comments about the project (footnotes). * Ref: list of sources.

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2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

Oil fields Proposed energy projects Projects established in 2015 2015 in the environment 2015 in technology