So what we're doing, we're putting compounds with petroleum solvents onto a petroleum spill.

Petroleum was replacing coal as fuel.

Petroleum has been important since ancient times.

He worked for the American Petroleum Institute.

And no need either, for petroleum based pesticides.

Petroleum prices will continue their sharp upward movement.

Products made from petroleum are vital to modern societies.

The present world owes its convenient life to petroleum.

Each tire alone requires about 7 gallons of Petroleum.

Petroleum priced coal out of the energy market in Japan.

But in fact, that's why the slogan beyond petroleum worked.

Corexit also contains petroleum solvents and many other toxic compounds.

But these materials are grown from agricultural byproducts, not petroleum.

Biodiesel and ethanol are made from crops grown by petroleum powered agriculture.

The parent company, Wometco, is one of the strongest in the petroleum market.

American petroleum Institute. It's fair to say that's the oil and gas lobby.

The ecologist warned us that petroleum was not merely a blessing but also a curse.

...Petroleum Association's annual conference here in Berlin... is Pekos Oil chief executive officer Yuri Gretkov.

Even roads are made from asphalt, a petroleum product, as are the roofs of many homes.

And then you get down to the petroleum distillates, which are the solvents, hundreds of them.

21.6 is from natural gas, 1.6 is from petroleum, 19.4 is from nuclear, 5.8 is from hydro.

There's no coal on the moon, there's no petroleum, there's no natural gas, there's no wind, there's no atmosphere.

What you see in this top drawing is a schematic of how petroleum gets used in the U.S. economy.

There are volumes of volatile petroleum fumes coming off that water, plus the Corexit, which has solvent in it.

To supply all US petroleum consumption in 2020 would take twice as much land as is used to grow food.

Classified satellite recon photos of a petroleum exploration firm linked to China, doing drilling in the Dajee region of Burundi.

What we can say now without any shadow of doubt is that petroleum man is just about extinct by the end of this century.

Today, we use a single feedstock, petroleum, to heat our homes, power our cars and make most of the materials you see around you.

The big story on Wall Street is that Icebergs International has been bought out by Wometco Petroleum in order to secure tax benefits within the common market.

Both can be used instead of petroleum based roofing materials that absorb heat, contribute to urban heat island effect and degrade under the sun, which we in turn breathe.

OK, if you put steam into coal fields or petroleum fields that have been running for decades, you can get a really substantial increase, like an eight fold increase, in your output.

Because as you separate that petroleum from the sand, and use an enormous amount of energy inside that vapor steam to separate this stuff you also have to separate out the sulfur.

There were four piles saturated with diesel and other petroleum waste one was a control pile one pile was treated with enzymes one pile was treated with bacteria and our pile we inoculated with mushroom mycelium.

As you think of what are the alternatives to this system it's important to find alternatives because it turns out that the U.S. is dwindling in its petroleum reserves, but it is not dwindling in its coal reserves, nor is China.

So we set out at Interface, in 1994, to create an example to transform the way we made carpet, a petroleum intensive product for materials as well as energy, and to transform our technologies so they diminished environmental impact, rather than multiplied it.

Yet, when we take a step back, and look over the span of history, at what we might call the petroleum interval, it's a short period in history where we've discovered this extraordinary material, and then based a whole way of life around it.

The pamphlet s two authors, Richard Lambert, a former editor of the Financial Times and future Director General of the Confederation of British Industry, and Nick Butler, the Group Vice President for Strategy and Policy Development at British Petroleum do not represent vested academic interests. What they say about Europe probably applies to most other parts of the world as well, though not to the United States.

And I then challenged the people of Interface, my company, to lead our company and the entire industrial world to sustainability, which we defined as eventually operating our petroleum intensive company in such a way as to take from the earth only what can be renewed by the earth, naturally and rapidly not another fresh drop of oil and to do no harm to the biosphere.