petroleum
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An acquisition of BHP’s petroleum business was cheered by investors, though they looked askance at the company’s decision to invest in a low-carbon ammonia project in Texas.
Those include Mercantile & Maritime Group, a Dubai-based company that trades petroleum and has a storage terminal in the United Arab Emirates.
Geologists first encountered the site in the 1970s while conducting mining and petroleum surveys and believed they had found reptile bones.
From Science Daily
Energy Information Administration, 83 percent of the nation's economic activity relies on petroleum, coal and natural gas.
From Science Daily
Fuel import prices fell 1.5% in September, driven by lower petroleum and natural gas prices, the Labor Department said.
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