Sentence examples for petroleum a from inspiring English sources

But Gulfsands Petroleum, a Syrian-focussed oil exploration group, slid 31.25p to 288.75p.

Anadarko Petroleum, a Texas oil and natural gas producer, gained $1.40, to $57.48.

BP has also just announced a $3 billion deal with Hindustan Petroleum, a partly state-owned Indian firm, to build oil refineries and petrol stations in India.

Plastic bags are petroleum based, and cars run on petroleum, a substance that continues to cause no end of worldly havoc.

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

Mr. Buck was tax counsel and associate general counsel for Caltex Petroleum, a division of Chevron Texaco, before retiring in 1986.

That position, Mr. Cheney said, would benefit Occidental Petroleum -- a company whose stock is held in a trust belonging to Mr. Gore's mother.

In August, Sinopec, one of China's biggest oil companies, closed a $9 billion acquisition, buying Addax Petroleum, a Geneva-based oil explorer that is most active in Nigeria, Gabon and the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

Subsequent seismic surveys and the surge in the price of oil prompted Desire Petroleum, a small British company, to hire the rig, which will drill up to ten wells for itself and several other firms.

A group of investors led by Li Ka-shing of Hong Kong agreed to buy Electricite de France's power business in Britain for 5.8 billion euros ($7.6 billion) in July, and Korea National Oil bid 1.87 billion euros for Dana Petroleum, a Scottish oil explorer, a month later.

Until his arrest, Namazi was the head of strategic planning at Crescent Petroleum, a Dubai-based oil and gas company. .