How to Use petrochemical in a Sentence

petrochemical

noun
  • About one-fifth of the fees flow from the petrochemical side.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 14 July 2022
  • Our region made the misstep of putting too many eggs in the shale and the petrochemical basket.
    Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2021
  • On Friday, a huge fire broke out at one of the petrochemical plants across the highway from their home.
    Eric Lipton, New York Times, 5 May 2023
  • The producers of many petrochemicals have been aware of the risks, such as birth defects, for decades.
    Gerald Markowitz, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The boom helped make the U.S. one of the largest exporters of plastics and other petrochemical products in recent years.
    Austen Hufford, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The state is home to the world’s largest petrochemical complex, which turns oil and gas and its byproducts into plastics.
    Sean McLain, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2021
  • None of this is to say the future for U.S. petrochemical producers looks bleak.
    Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
  • In the early 1990s, a sprawling petrochemical plant went up there.
    Lam Yik Fei Tiffany May, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • With the plan comes the chance to lead by example in the nation’s petrochemical corridor.
    Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2022
  • Higher oil and petrochemical prices have also pushed up the cost of virgin PET plastic, but not by as much.
    Carol Ryan, WSJ, 12 July 2022
  • Today, 14 percent of oil and 8 percent of gas is used to make petrochemicals, the feedstock of plastics.
    Anchorage Daily News, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Many of the suburbs in the area have a heavy presence of petrochemical facilities.
    David Phillip and Sean Murphy, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2023
  • There's no shortage of petrochemical companies that want to be part of the shift to gasoline that can wear a carbon-neutral badge.
    Hazel Southwell, Ars Technica, 5 May 2023
  • Those are strong words for a man who was running a petrochemical company.
    Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 31 July 2023
  • Whether the petrochemical plant will be built is uncertain.
    Mark Gillispie, Star Tribune, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Winter storms that shut down petrochemical plants in the Gulf of Mexico have left key products in short supply.
    New York Times, 1 June 2021
  • And it’s part of a petrochemical industry trend with global scope.
    Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Two-thirds of our clothes contain petrochemical fibers.
    Dana Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2023
  • But the most important reason might be that BP simply isn’t drinking the petrochemical kool-aid.
    Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 1 July 2020
  • And a few hours later, a chlorine gas leak sickened dozens at a petrochemical complex in southeast Iran.
    Ramin Mostaghim, Andrew Carey and Oren Liebermann, CNN, 6 July 2020
  • The natural process was first observed in the 1950s in the petrochemical industry, but scientists did not know what was going on, or even how to use it.
    John Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Many of the area’s steel plants have disappeared, but various petrochemical concerns have arisen in their place.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Congress needs to put a pause on the race to construct more petrochemical facilities.
    Judith Enck, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The letter highlighted new sanctions that were imposed by the U.S. targeting the regime’s income from the trade of petrochemicals.
    Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 31 Mar. 2020
  • That crazy idea may soon stand guard at Galveston Bay, home to the nation's largest export harbor and the biggest petrochemical complex in the Western Hemisphere.
    Ben Tracy, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Then February’s arctic storms damaged petrochemical plants up and down the Gulf Coast.
    Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 21 May 2021
  • Workers also protested in Abadan in the Khuzestan Province, which is one of Iran’s most expansive oil and petrochemical hubs.
    Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Joint ventures in refineries and petrochemical plants help Aramco hedge against low oil prices.
    The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Some of the most polluting petrochemical refineries in the US, Brown’s research reveals, occupy former sugarcane fields.
    Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 2 Aug. 2024
  • As such, Dow Chemical announced last December a $6.8 billion project to build the world’s first net-zero petrochemical production facility.
    Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2024

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