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Example sentences for: petroleum

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Instead, Slifka is a Bostonian who owns Global Petroleum Corp., New England's largest distributor of gasoline.
Excluded from the definition of land 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.
But three petroleum engineers writing in the Journal of Petroleum Technology explained in 1971 why this is not the case.
The term "fossil fuel" means natural gas, petroleum, coal, or any form of solid, liquid, orgaseous fuel derived from such material.
Neither the WP nor the NYT mentions as a possible Khatemi motivation the desire for eliminating obstacles to Caspian-Sea-based oil deals involving U.S. petroleum companies, now hamstrung by anti-Iranian sanctions.