Sentence examples for amount of petroleum from inspiring English sources

To detect the amount of petroleum in water, oil workers use both ultraviolet fluorescence and infrared spectroscopy.

"It bothers me that we are burning a huge amount of petroleum to be at sea," Ms. Kingsolver said at the global warming conference.

KiOR says that its fuel will release one-sixth the amount of carbon dioxide as an equivalent amount of petroleum fuel.

A minor amount of petroleum is associated with Silurian reef structures in the Michigan Basin of the north-central United States.

Second, as exploration progresses, the average size of the fields discovered decreases, as does the amount of petroleum found per unit of exploratory drilling.

According to a Pentagon report, the amount of petroleum needed for each soldier each day increased four times between the Second World War and the Gulf War and quadrupled again when the US invaded Iraq.

Researchers at Goodyear Tire and Rubber have tested soybean oil and found it can reduce the amount of petroleum-based oil used in tires and extend their tread life.

Levulinate esters, such as methyl levulinate and ethyl levulinate obtained via esterification of levulinic acid with alcohols, can in particular be used as fuel additives and plasticizers, and thus have a potential to replace a significant amount of petroleum-derived chemical feedstocks.

Buying local food is an easy and delicious way to support small farmers and local economies, and often to reduce your picnic's "carbon foodprint" by cutting down on the fossil fuels required to get it to the party, and almost always to reduce the amount of petroleum-based chemicals used in its production and packaging.

In August, the US and Saudi Arabia produced roughly the same amount of crude oil and liquid petroleum products, about 11.5 million barrels per day.

Other fuel resources include small amounts of petroleum and moderately large deposits of natural gas.