petroleum

Its strategic petroleum reserves hold only 9-10 days of net oil imports, compared with roughly 200 days in Japan and 207 in South Korea.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Higher oil prices support fiscal revenue through stronger petroleum receipts and potentially larger dividends from Petronas, while lower prices provide relief by reducing fuel-subsidy costs, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

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

Part of the money raised will fund a further expansion of the refinery as Dangote seeks to increase its capacity and strengthen its position as a major supplier of refined petroleum products.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

Pascal has gone farthest—for two years he’s been in Luanda, where he studies petroleum engineering and, I sincerely believe, chases girls.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

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