petroleum

The combined cost of gas and diesel is now $700 million higher per day compared to a year ago, Patrick De Haan, Gas Buddy’s head of petroleum analysis, said Thursday on X.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Before the conflict began Feb. 28, about 20 million barrels a day of crude and petroleum products moved through the waterway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

"The petroleum will push us very far," President Yoweri Museveni, 81, said at the "oil-naming ceremony" in Hoima district, where a 60,000-barrel-per-day refinery is also being constructed.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

The subsidy had kept down the price of petroleum products low for decades.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

The fissure in the earth had filled with gold and precious stones, bubbling in a thick soup of petroleum.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

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

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