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 Port of Houston, located along the ship channel, is home to the largest petrochemical complex in the U.S.
  — CBS News, 13 Sep. 2019
• 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
• At least 10 large petrochemical plants are also close to the water.
  — I Made Sentana, WSJ, 25 Dec. 2018
• 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
• The overall petrochemical sector is in the midst of a cyclical downturn that could drag out into the years ahead after a major wave of growth along the Gulf Coast for most of this decade.
  — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 30 July 2019
• Those are strong words for a man who was running a petrochemical company.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 31 July 2023
• In Ohio, a petrochemical plant proposed in Belmont County has languished in the planning stages for years.
  — Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2019
• 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
• The incidents follow a string of attacks on petrochemical tankers in and around the strait in recent months, acts of sabotage the United States blamed on Iran.
  — Erin Cunningham, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Houston is the nation’s petrochemical heartland and is home to a cluster of refineries and plants and thousands of miles of pipelines.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2024
• Houston, Texas’ largest city, is the nation’s petrochemical heartland and is home to a cluster of refineries and plants and thousands of miles of pipelines.
  — Juan A. Lozano and Sean Murphy, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024