petroleum

Putin has said Russia, which introduced a ban on diesel exports earlier this year, is willing to supply both the US and global markets with oil and petroleum products.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 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

Indian refineries are running near full capacity, and Greek petroleum exports make up a sliver of the global market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

On an annual basis, energy and petroleum products similarly were the biggest driver of price gains, with diesel fuel soaring more than 100% and finished motor gasoline up 45.3% compared with last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Every day I watched the German soldiers in their field-gray uniforms who guarded a petroleum tank across the street from our apartment.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

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

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