petroleum

On a quarterly basis, sales rose 1.7% for a fifth consecutive advance, though the volume of trade for the third quarter slipped 0.3% thanks to a sharp pull back in the petroleum sector.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

According to the court, "the combustion emissions resulting from petroleum production must be subject to an impact assessment" before a plan is approved.

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026

Exports of petroleum products and petrochemical goods also increased 80% and 28%, respectively.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Those efforts have had a limited effect so far, Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

One of the petroleum companies, Conoco, that was exploring for oil, agreed to build a big sanctuary for the chimps—a patch of forest with an electric fence around it.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall

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

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