petroleum
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Chevron, the oil giant founded and until recently headquartered in California, is the only foreign petroleum company still operating in Venezuela and its largest foreign investor.
From Los Angeles Times
Chevron, the international petroleum conglomerate with a massive refinery in El Segundo and headquartered, until recently, in San Ramon, is the only foreign oil company that has continued operating there through decades of revolution.
From Los Angeles Times
More effective are the measures against facilities that handle Russian petroleum products.
An acquisition of BHP’s petroleum business was cheered by investors, though they looked askance at the company’s decision to invest in a low-carbon ammonia project in Texas.
Those include Mercantile & Maritime Group, a Dubai-based company that trades petroleum and has a storage terminal in the United Arab Emirates.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
