petroleum
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Under normal circumstances, around 20 million barrels a day of oil and petroleum products pass through the strait.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Rather, he expects high oil prices to manifest into even higher prices for gasoline, jet fuel and other petroleum products.
From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026
Nature chose its location some 60,000 years ago, when crude petroleum that formed millions of years earlier began seeping to the surface.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
That doesn’t seem obvious following Wednesday’s closely watched U.S. government report on petroleum inventories.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
He arrived at the Rad Lab skeptical about electromagnetic separation, having been convinced of the superiority of gaseous diffusion by his technical advisors, who came from a petroleum industry familiar with that technology.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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