Sentence examples for bitumen department from inspiring English sources

Royal Dutch/Shell said European officials inspected its bitumen department in the Netherlands.

Unless local public works departments and the National Highway Authority incorporate bitumen modified with waste plastic into their requirements for road specifications, he said, the technology would remain a novelty.

Another by-product was bitumen.

Adding rubber thickens the bitumen.

Bitumens used include petroleum bitumen; natural asphalts, such as uintaite; and pitches, as from coal tar.

Ian D. Gates, chairman of the department of petroleum engineering at the University of Calgary, said that it was unlikely that the oil sands deposits underground would be affected, but that the bitumen in oil sands already at the surface, exposed by mining or erosion, might burn if a sufficiently hot wildfire were to reach them.

Steam created by burning natural gas separates the semisolid bitumen.

The bitumen lies behind; long trucks rumble on, feeding mouths.

A bitumen slime was used to bind the bricks together.

Bitumen had many other uses in the ancient world.

Industry insiders long considered bitumen to be a "garbage" crude.