Right now, it is the black black oil, which is filling Brown's black hole.
Thousands of barrels of thick, black oil flowing like a river through a suburban Arkansas community.
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It has a dry gas, wet gas, volatile oil and black oil phases.
The charity said the birds were found covered in thick black fuel oil off Ramsgate and Rye last week.
In Russia's Black Sea oil port of Novorossisk, for example, a local British businessman, Clive Rumens, wanted to set up a small factory producing a simple additive that makes crude oil pour more easily.
Our eyes are riveted to watching the black trail of oil soiling Gulf waters and coastlines.
Garnished with a scattering of Pecorino Romano and a drizzle of black-truffle olive oil (fine, buttery olive oil also works well), this dish makes you wonder what other pantry ingredients Mr. Brock will have us reconsider.
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Then I cut two slices, brushed them with olive oil and added Black Forest ham, a bit of mustard and butterkase cheese before grilling the sandwich.
The author begins his travels in Nigeria, where Royal Dutch Shell started off Africa's relationship with the modern oil industry by striking black gold in the Delta region in 1958.
In "Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta, " Ed Kashi captures the impact of the oil industry on Nigeria's environment and people since it was first discovered five decades ago.
But, oil is no longer black gold.
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Some received bottles shaped like oil derricks, filled with black crude purportedly from "their" wells.
The letter was forgotten as, on Aug. 29, 1859, Drake and Uncle Billy and his sons got feverishly busy pumping oil and filling wash tubs and whiskey barrels (why we speak of "barrels" of oil today) with the black liquid.
In many ways, a disruption of Saudi oil supply would be the ultimate Black Swan.
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Page turning was slow and was accompanied by a distracting flash of black as the microspheres dived down into their oil-filled nodules before forming new text.
In the wake of Friday's release of thousands of barrels of oil from the Pegasus pipeline, black crude was seen soaking lawns and streaming down residential streets in the community north of the state capital, Little Rock.
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And Bulgaria's oil refinery in Bourgas, on the Black Sea, could become a major supplier to Yugoslavia.
Petroleum coke is the solid black gunk left over at the end of the oil refining process.
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Drizzle with 1 tablespoon of the olive oil, sprinkle with the salt, black pepper, and cayenne, and toss gently to coat.
This has given Western companies access to new opportunities, such as Exxon's recent deal with Russian oil giant OAO Rosneft to explore the Black Sea.
Oil bulls argue that the price of the black stuff can only go up and stay up.
The incident happened this morning on an oil production platform owned by Houston-based Black Elk Energy.
Oil is piped from the Caspian Sea to ports in the Black Sea, increasing Russia's anxiety to maintain control.
But these same resorts are now counting the losses inflicted by Israeli strikes and ensuing oil spills which have turned the Big Blue into a Big Black.
Some 65% of Saudi electricity is generated using black gold, even as successive price shocks and the relative inefficiency of oil generation have seen it all but phased out in rich countries.
While oil majors like BP are eagerly exploring Turkey's share of the Black Sea, they long ago gave up seeking big finds onshore.
Oil in the Caspian region is now channeled principally through pipelines to Russian Black Sea ports, and Moscow wants to keep it that way, because that means it controls the flow.
The oil is so thick on the surface that ice from nearby Columbia glacier turned black.
With the invention of the gas-fueled automobile in 1901, black gold became the drug of choice, and its ascent marked the coming of Big Oil.
Is it structured to fend off the asset-eroding potential of triggers such as so-called Black Swan events, Black Monday-level market implosions, interest and inflation rate swings, war or an oil supply disruption?
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