petroleum

Macron said the coordinated action would "bring down the prices of petroleum products, particularly diesel".

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

The move is “significant,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Before the war, roughly 20 million barrels a day of crude oil and petroleum products passed through the Strait of Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

He urged people to consider a number of factors that could impact the refinery's future performance, including disruptions to crude oil supply, operational challenges, regulatory changes and fluctuations in demand for refined petroleum products.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Ancient Greeks discovered the uses of various mixtures of petroleum, pitch, resins, sulfur, and quicklime as incendiary weapons, delivered by catapults, arrows, firebombs, and ships.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

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