coke

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Exxon has said it is targeting a more than 50% increase in Permian output between 2025 and 2030 in part by using petroleum coke, a refinery byproduct, to recover more molecules as it fracks wells.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

“I had to take a few jelly beans and coke to get going. It wasn’t the prettiest innings but sometimes you’ve got to do it ugly.”

From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025

In 2022, Pennsylvania health officials fined US Steel $4.7m after it found the plant was not using a pollution control device for its coke pushing.

From BBC • Aug. 11, 2025

By tuning interactions between the metal active sites and the support during catalyst synthesis, the scientists suppressed coke formation and metal sintering.

From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2024

I’m black because I work at the Limerick Gas Works shoveling coal and coke into the furnaces.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt