Sentence examples for petroleum for from inspiring English sources

To persuade the government to drop its lawsuit, executives of BP Amoco and ARCO had to agree to sell ARCO's large oil and natural gas holdings in Alaska to Phillips Petroleum for about $7 billion.

"Offshore will be a major source of domestic petroleum for the foreseeable future," Mr. Graham said.

Russia's economy is dependent on petroleum for about 60 percent of its export revenue.

I'm not saying,, "Oh, shocker, we rely on petroleum for our food".

Every manufacturing-input cost rose, from electricity to petroleum (for plastics) to metals to wages.

The current system, they argue, is almost completely reliant on petroleum for fertilizers and global transportation.

Outrage is brewing on the other side of the Atlantic over the Obama administration's repeated use of the name "British Petroleum" for BP, the oil company responsible for the spill that has devastated the Gulf of Mexico.

We thank British Petroleum for providing us with a sample of Macondo crude oil (MC 252; ID#: 20100617-121) from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Pluspetrol, which has run the nearby oil block since 2001, has blamed a previous operator – the US-based Occidenthe pollution – for the pollution.

The Apache Corporation agreed yesterday to buy offshore oil and gas interests in the Gulf of Mexico from a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum for $385 million, part of which will be paid in future years.

At Tullow, which recently reported another disappointing drilling update, the company has sold majority stakes in two UK North Sea gas assets to Faroe Petroleum for $75.6m.