Sentence examples for naphtha from inspiring English sources

As India insisted, its fuel is naphtha, which unexpectedly doubled in price after the agreement was negotiated, driving up the variable component of Dabhol's tariff.

A tangle of silver pipes and concrete structures cover the rutted ground from which the central naphtha cracker is starting to rise.

The main type of plastic used, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), is made from naphtha, an oil derivative, which can be partly substituted with ethane, a natural-gas derivative.

Foreign competitors rely on naphtha, a more expensive oil-based feedstock.

But with the tripling of capacity, Dabhol will switch from naphtha to liquefied natural gas.

Switching feedstock from naphtha, derived from oil, to ethane, derived from gas, has kept petrochemicals cheap even as oil prices have peaked.

Europe and Asia rely only on expensive naphtha.

The cleaned crude bitumen is upgraded in a delayed coking unit, which produces a blend of lighter hydrocarbon fractions that yield synthetic crude oil, naphtha, kerosene, and gas oil.

As early as the 1st century ad, naphtha was mentioned by the Greek writer Dioscorides and the Roman writer Pliny the Elder.

The lights of the Vivid Festival recall Kenneth Slessor's Five Bells, in which he imagines the same harbour: "blank and bone-white, like a maniac's thought/ The naphtha-flash of lightning slit the sky/ Knifing the dark with deathly photographs".

The state's electricity regulator has ordered MSEB to favour cheaper sources of supply; the resulting drop in Dabhol's output makes each unit ridiculously expensive.Naphtha prices have again receded, so variable costs should drop soon.