petroleum
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Canadian manufactured goods prices were driven higher by a 6.4% monthly increase in energy and petroleum prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
However, Statistics Canada noted International Energy Agency data showed that refined product markets remained tight, pushing petroleum refinery margins to four-year highs in early July.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Lance, by contrast, is a petroleum engineer who started his career handling oil field data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Suncor, whose operations span oil sands mining, offshore production, petroleum refining and the Petro Canada chain of gas stations across the country, said former Chief Financial Officer Little was no longer with the company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
According to the handout, McNuggets also contain several completely synthetic ingredients, items that come not from a corn or soybean field but from a petroleum refinery or chemical plant.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
The method was carried out as above with four samples of American petroleums, Colorado oil from Florence, Col.;
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 by Various
By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
At present little is known as to how far many of the very cheap distillates and crude petroleums can be used as fuel for internal-combustion engines.
From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171 by Herbert M. Wilson
Zaloziecki found, according to this method, in three samples of Galician petroleums, 4.6, 5.8 and 6.5 per cent., respectively, of proto-paraffine.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 by Various
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