petroleum
Example Sentences
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“It will take a long time to shake out the impact regarding oil supplies and hence, petroleum pricing,” Ritterbusch and Associates says in a note.
He has been explicit about his ambitions for American petroleum companies to scale up their operations in the country.
From BBC
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.