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Example sentences for: petroleum

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But thanks to advances in mining and petroleum technology, other areas of the state can be safely developed, leaving only a minuscule "footprint" on the environment.
Excluded from the definition are the natural resources (that is, depletable resources, such as mineral deposits and petroleum; renewable resources, such as timber; and the outer-continental shelf resources) related to land.
Cold seeps are characterized by high fluxes of methane, higher hydrocarbons (such as ethane, propane, butane), and/or petroleum from deep subsurface reservoirs.
Today moves toward international mergers and acquisitions are picking up momentum in a broad spectrum of industries, such as financial services, communications, automobiles and petroleum.
Then came tin mining and rubber plantations, and, more recently, palm oil, hardwood timber, and offshore petroleum and gas.