petroleum
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Formed in 1960, OPEC’s members, representing 90% of world petroleum reserves, implemented a 1973 oil embargo, causing prices to surge.
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
Prices of petroleum products surged in April, highlighting the pass-through from higher global energy costs.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
But now, those buffers have been worked through and the market is seeing large draws from commercial inventories and strategic petroleum reserves, he said.
From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026
Treasury Department imposed sanctions recently on a unit of Hengli Petrochemical, a refiner that it said has purchased billions of dollars of Iranian petroleum.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
The expertise at distillation that medieval Islamic alchemists developed to produce alcohols and perfumes also let them distill petroleum into fractions, some of which proved to be even more powerful incendiaries.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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