“There have been attacks on mosques ranging from windows being broken to petrol bombings.”

“It's not as powerful as the initial projections led us to believe, and the Wankel engine uses oil and petrol in equal measure.”

“Until the fairgrounds started to use petrol and diesel engines their rides were driven by steam.”

“The lubricants are biodegradable and less toxic than traditional lubricants made from petroleum.”

“A weighting agent adds body to petroleum and prevents the formation of gushers.”

“Mineral spirits, a petroleum distillate fraction, is the most common solvent in oil-based paints.”

“The petrochemistry of primitive intraplate basalts can tell us whether their source is abnormally hot or not.”

“Production of propylene, raw material for petrochemistry, will increase nearly twofold, up to 300 thousand tons per year.”

“All the carbon fibre, the foams, the composite materials, the glues, everything comes from petrochemistry.”

“These and several other Najd fields are linked to Petroline by a 325-km spur for export to Ras Tanura in the Gulf or Yanbu' on the Red Sea.”

“Capacity rose to about 5 million barrels a day through two parallel pipelines known as the Petroline.”

“Saudi Arabia has an east-west pipeline, Petroline, which runs almost 1,200km across the kingdom from Abqaiq to Yanbu' on the Red Sea.”

“Biodiesel has a higher cetane number than petrodiesel because of its oxygen content.”

“It takes approximately 13 litres of petrodiesel fuel to harvest and deliver a cubic metre of lumber to a lumber yard.”

“Biodiesel these days is selling at about the same prices as petrodiesel, or even a little more in many places.”

“On Thursday the 75-year-old, who retired as chief petrophysicist with British Gas in 1992, paid a visit to the gas platform about 25 miles west of Blackpool.”

“Processes of analogy have created coinages like petrodollar, psycho-warfare, microwave on such models as petrochemical, psychology, microscope.”

“The danger is that the ruling House of Saud will use its new petrodollar bonanza to buy off dissent and put off painful political decisions.”

“Of potentially greater consequence for Canada is the impact of petrodollar recycling on global imbalances.”

“New pastures full of scarecrows and glistening barbed razor wire and crisscrossing pipelines pumping petrodollars into the pockets of imperium.”

“Nonetheless, it took several weeks, and no doubt a bigger than average wad of petrodollars, to convince him to finally sign on the dotted line.”

“What are the prospects for poverty reduction through the investment of petrodollars?”

“Most natural makeup bases use products such as jojoba oil and candelilla wax instead of petrochemicals such as mineral oil, says Upton.”

“I still love a good steak but I do miss that odd hint of petrochemicals that sometimes hovered over his meats.”

“With a few notable exceptions such as rayon, most synthetic fibers come from petrochemicals.”