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petroleum

[puh-troh-lee-uhm] / pəˈtroʊ li əm /


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Over the weekend, Indian ministers cheered the passage of two tankers bearing liquefied petroleum gas through the passage after talks with Tehran about the shipments.

From The Wall Street Journal

It also carries around half of the country's liquefied natural gas imports and most of its liquefied petroleum gas shipments.

From BBC

Brent crude prices have risen more than 40% since the war began, stoking fears of inflation, since petroleum factors into the prices of most everything, from manufacturing to transportation.

From Barron's

Brent crude prices have risen more than 40% since the war began, stoking fears of inflation, since petroleum factors into the prices of most everything, from manufacturing to transportation.

From Barron's

He grew up in Iran, came to Oklahoma to get a degree in petroleum engineering and joined Chevron just after finishing graduate school in 1978.

From The Wall Street Journal