How to Use naphtha in a Sentence

naphtha

noun

• Petrobas is the main supplier of naphtha for Braskem in Brazil.
  — Marissa Luck, Houston Chronicle, 4 June 2019
• The night before the fire, two trucks transferred butane, a flammable gas, into the storage tank to mix it with the naphtha.
  — Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2019
• Filling the page, an army made of iron and filled with naphtha thunders forth, spewing flames.
  — Lee Lawrence, WSJ, 18 July 2017
• The barges contained soybean oil, lube oil, naphtha and monoethylene glycol, the Coast Guard said.
  — Christina Maxouris and Dakin Andone, CNN, 20 Sep. 2019
• The ship had loaded a cargo of naphtha in Abu Dhabi and was bound for Taiwan, a company official said.
  — Bloomberg News, The Mercury News, 13 June 2019
• The blaze -- which burned for 64 hours and spread to 11 tanks filled with gasoline blend stocks, naphtha, xylene and pygas -- sent a miles-long plume of black smoke over the Houston area for several days.
  — Paul Takahashi, Houston Chronicle, 6 Oct. 2019
• Some 20% of Asia’s naphtha, a precursor to benzene and other key chemicals for plastics, is sourced through the Suez Canal.
  — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2021
• The vast, ambitious novels imagine a steampunkish version of our world, where the rooms are lit by naphtha lamps, blimplike airships cruise the skies, and armored bears prowl the north.
  — Wired, 29 Oct. 2019
• Venezuela imports about 2 million barrels of heavy naphtha per month, and all of it comes from U.S. Gulf refiners, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
  — Lucia Kassai, Bloomberg.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• Two years later, 13 miners were buried alive in the central shaft of the tunnel when a candle ignited naphtha fumes, setting off an explosion and filling the shaft with water.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• Global appetite for oil remains below pre-pandemic levels despite a pickup in consumption of gasoline, naphtha and fuel oil, which is used to heat homes and power ships.
  — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2021
• The fire began before 7 a.m. Central time after a petroleum product called naphtha leaked from a storage tank at the Marathon Petroleum refinery in Garyville.
  — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
• The complex’s chemical plant has shut, including its olefins unit -- which takes feedstocks such as naphtha, butane, propane and ethane from the oil refinery and converts them into ethylene and propylene that are used to make plastics.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2020
• That makes Appalachia’s ethane, though still cheap, less competitive as a basic building block of plastics, compared to naphtha — a petroleum product found in other regions whose price falls along with oil.
  — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2020
• To make plastic, the petroleum is first refined into naphtha and then into plastic materials such as polyethylene and polypropylene.
  — Austen Hufford, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022
• China Petroleum & Chemical’s net profit in the first half fell over 19% on year, mainly due to weak demand for chemical and certain refinery products, including naphtha and petroleum coke.
  — P.r. Venkat, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2023
• Not only is the ethylene produced there much cheaper than naphtha abroad, but making more sophisticated chemicals and plastics in this region also saves on transport costs since much of American manufacturing is close by.
  — The Economist, 14 Apr. 2018
• Biological waste is a source of organic and renewable versions of naphtha and methane, compounds typically involved in paint production.
  — Sami Haj-Assaad, Car and Driver, 1 Oct. 2022
• Crude oil can be converted into naphtha, and gas converted into ethane, which are processed at sprawling industrial compounds into ethylene and plastic resins, then used to create consumer goods like grocery bags and single-use water bottles.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 4 Sep. 2020
• Meanwhile, naphtha demand will skyrocket – the derivative is used as feedstock in petrochemicals production.
  — Irina Slav, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 16 Aug 2024