petroleum

The impacts have been most dramatic in refining, where the profit margins for processing crude oil into gasoline, diesel and other petroleum products have exploded in recent months.

From Barron's ● 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

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

Once I read in a magazine that you can make lipstick by mixing Kool-Aid with petroleum jelly.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

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