petroleum
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Axios also said the deal would more than double US oil reserves at a time when the US strategic petroleum reserve is at a 40-year low.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
Iran’s disruption of the Strait of Hormuz interferes with petroleum movement and fertilizer shipments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The margin that oil refiners demand for producing gasoline, heating oil and diesel has been rising to historic highs, pressuring for one prices of petroleum products used by U.S. consumers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
A tanker carrying liquefied petroleum gas has paid $5.3 million for priority passage through the Panama Canal ahead of El Nino-related restrictions, the waterway's deputy administrator, Ilya Espino de Marotta, told AFP on Thursday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
The most frequently repeated messages will be station call signals and appeals to purchase detergents, deodorants, headache tablets, and automobile and petroleum products.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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
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
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
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
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