Sentence examples for gallons of petroleum from inspiring English sources

In 1996, 400 gallons of petroleum spilled into an outflow that discharged into the reservoir.

It took two months to pump out 12 million gallons of water mixed with 40,000 gallons of petroleum.

A city of 5m people would release some 42m litres (8.8m gallons) of petroleum products a year, roughly the quantity of oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez.

Roasting gallons of petroleum at 850 degrees Fahrenheit breaks down the other compounds in the oil, producing teaspoons of the larger diamondoids.

Humans release about 210 million gallons of petroleum a year into the seas, the report said, while natural seepage adds 180 million gallons.

New York is the largest petroleum port in the nation, with more than 30 billion gallons of petroleum, oil and other lubricants delivered annually.

The development can save up to seven million gallons of petroleum-based oil a year, Goodyear said Tuesday.

Sure, drivers grasp that hybrids — essentially cars powered by gas with a side order of electricity — can squeeze more miles from a gallon of petroleum and are easier on the environment, and even that there can be tax advantages to owning one.

In the Port of New York and New Jersey alone, about 11,000 vessels haul 3 million shipping containers and nearly 30 million gallons of oil and petroleum products every year.

In April of 2010, the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform initiated the largest deep water oil release in the history of the petroleum industry culminating in more than 189 million gallons of crude oil released into the environment [ 1, 2].

Economist Paul Krugman recently estimated that Americans use about 1,000 gallons worth of petroleum products a year - each.