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Example sentences for: oil

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The oil is saturated with nitrogen to prevent oxidation during shipping and storage.
Nelson's urge to enter the public arena was partly the legacy of his father, whose Rockefeller Foundation helped create the modern science of philanthropy, though its underlying purpose was to expunge the malevolent connotations attached to the name of Rockefeller in the wake of the predations of the Standard Oil trust.
By the 1920s, the derricks of the Standard, Union, and Shell oil companies had sprouted all over the Los Angeles basin.
But the paper warned of big problems: The Indonesians "fear that if the logic of secession is not checked, there will be no Indonesia left for them to call home"; the military's refusal to contemplate Aceh's departure, saying it would be unconstitutional; and the region's economic role as a major producer of Indonesia's natural gas, oil, gold, silver, pepper, rubber, and timber.
Khodorkovsky is the chairman of one of Russia's largest oil companies, and former chairman of Menatep, an insolvent Russian bank.