crude

Barclays maintains its Brent crude oil forecast of $96.00 per barrel for 2026.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

For years, Beijing had restricted privately owned refineries from importing crude oil.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Energy Information Administration and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, has a tendency to underestimate crude demand.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026

It has also become a major importer of illicit Iranian crude, according to industry analysts, shipping brokers and the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Foot soldiers in the past had fought with single-shot rifles that could not fire very straight or very far and with crude short-range cannon.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

Marathon and Valero noted strong performance from their West Coast refineries, citing recent California refinery closures and increased availability of California crudes, in addition to the war.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Gulf Coast that process sulfur-heavy sour crudes, such as those from Canada and Venezuela, have a byproduct as in demand as their main products gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026

The investment allowed them to take advantage of the light-heavy spread, as heavy crudes are typically cheaper because they are lower quality and require more processing.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 29, 2026

She said Brent prices will eventually catch up with the Middle Eastern crudes changing hands at over $150 a barrel if Hormuz stays shut.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

In the case of alkaline crudes a correction should be made for the acid added.

From Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. by E. G. Thomssen

In addition to the Shahed-136, Iran also has stocks of earlier, cruder models of the Shahed that it can turn to.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026

It’s a much cruder, but drastically cheaper, way of monitoring the disease over time versus trying to test as many people as possible.

From Slate ● Jan. 19, 2024

But as a patrol of environmentalists approaches the Chilean super trawler in an inflatable boat, the cruder realities of modern industrial fishing come into view.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

"That is not the modus operandi. It's slightly cruder than that, on the whole."

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2023

Here man has a cruder enemy even than himself.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Mr. Sokolov and co-writer Alex Litvak barely bother with scratching out the crudest imaginable dialogue, which is unfortunate because they fancy themselves the creators of a sociopolitical satire along the lines of “Get Out.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

The production, directed by La Jolla Playhouse outgoing artistic director Christopher Ashley, makes musical comedy seem like the crudest of art forms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025

The company's scientists took the crudest of the crude oil components -- the sludge left at the bottom after the distillation process -- and pushed it through one of the membranes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2023

“It’s very difficult to find reliable indicators for even the crudest differences between pleasant and unpleasant music, let alone for the subtle differences that make a nice musical piece become a hit,” he says.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 30, 2023

His sun sights were the crudest of guesses, and to look up positions in the tables he had to peel apart the wet pages one by one.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong