petroleum
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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
It is also a major exporter of diesel and other petroleum products, giving it a crucial role in global fuel markets.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Excluding energy and petroleum products, producer prices edged up 0.3% last month with notable increases for chemicals and chemical products.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Prices of refined petroleum products remain between 70 and 95 percent above pre-war levels, putting pressure on countries dependent on energy imports for economic activity.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Gone are the big petroleum companies and the forests of derricks as the vast oil fields have been increasingly depleted.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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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
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
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
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