petroleum

pronunciation

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Noun:

a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons

Word Origin

petroleum (n.): early 15c. "petroleum, rock oil" (mid-14c. in Anglo-French), from Medieval Latin petroleum, from Latin petra "rock" (see petrous) + oleum "oil" (see oil (n.)).

Synonym

n.

petrol oil crude rock

Example

1. 3 In petroleum refining on world 's most admired companies

2. Stephen i. chazen president and chief executive officer occidental petroleum corp. 2010 total compensation : $ 38,080,344 *

3. To keep up with local production , enrollment at both graduate and undergraduate petroleum engineering programs has grown .

4. We have not seen improving trends in u.s. petroleum supply-demand picture of late , particularly for transportation fuels .

5. Ray r. irani executive chairman occidental petroleum corp. 2010 total compensation : $ 76,107,010 *

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