Sentence examples for petroleum fire from inspiring English sources

The answer is 'yes', as a number of major accidents in the developed countries since 1984, such as the Piper Alpha oil platform fire (1988, 167 killed), the Zeebrugge ferry disaster (1987, 167 killed), Phillips petroleum fire and explosion (1989, 23 killed), the Challenger disaster (1986, 7 killed), Esso Australia Longford explosion (1998, 2 killed) have demonstrated.

Now, a new study explores how petroleum, fire, and ice interact during oil spill cleanups and suggests that oil and (frozen) water do mix just not in the way researchers expected.

Petroleum fires flickered on the water.

Benzene exposure, a by-product of petroleum fires, however, has been shown to have the greatest magnitude of association within the first 10 years of exposure (Richardson 2008) and was found to be elevated in air samples around the WTC sites (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2003).

The specimens were heated by a stackable electrical furnace and blowing liquefied petroleum gas fire into the furnace simultaneously in order to simulate the real fire attack.

These contaminants included petroleum fuels, solvents, fumes, smoke, combustion products from oil fires or incinerated trash/feces, tent heater smoke, vehicle exhaust, chemical agent resistant compound paint, debris from missile or artillery explosions, and chemical or biological warfare agents.

It then involved extensive testing of firing clean urban wood waste — biomass — with coal, firing petroleum coke with coal, and firing various blends of urban wood waste and petroleum coke with coal.

"Petroleum-based fires emit cyanide gas and one full breath can kill you.

Arrested as a Pïtroleuse the term used, Papin explains, for women who used petroleum to set fire to houses she has "narrowly escaped the blood-stained hands of General Galliffet". The narrowness of her escape is even clearer if we recollect that the French army crushed the Commune at the end of May 1871.

Thousands of petroleum engineers were fired or left the business.

* * *  Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Drenched in petroleum and lit on fire Before the artist leaps across your pyre.