petroleum

Analysts put the total, including strategic petroleum reserves, oil held in refineries and the commercial reserves that represent the largest share of China’s stockpile, at between 1 billion and 1.4 billion barrels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

Treasury, which sanctioned the company’s refinery business earlier this year, saying it bought billions of dollars’ worth of Iranian petroleum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

This is in line with its typically longer lag in reflecting global crude oil prices, even as both export and import prices of crude oil and petroleum products declined, Barclays said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Lance, by contrast, is a petroleum engineer who started his career handling oil field data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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

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

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