bitumen
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The US has also sanctioned the ship's owner, Arihant Shipping Inc, and has accused the ship of transporting "hundreds of thousands of barrels of Iranian fuel oil and bitumen within the Gulf since July 2025".
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
To produce oil there, the industry separates heavy oil, or bitumen, from the sands through an underground process that uses steam.
From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026
Volatile dilutants added to the heavy bitumen from Alberta enable it to flow through the pipeline.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
Veniamin Kondratyev, the head of the regional government, said the Ukrainians drones had targeted two oil refineries, a bitumen plant, and a military airfield in Kuban.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2024
In the mummies merely cured with salt, when this ingredient is abundant, the features are obliterated, the surface of the body having been smeared with bitumen.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
