"The economy is the driver behind the growth in petroleum product demand, " says Petron president Abdulaziz Al-Khayyal.
The weak link in pavement is bitumen, the black petroleum product that holds the bits of rock together.
Neither of these products can be directly distilled into gasoline or fuel oil (kerosen, jet, and diesel) or indeed any other conventional petroleum product.
With improvements in petroleum and petroleum product shipping offsetting coal volume losses over the last two quarters, the railroad industry is capitalizing on the current natural gas boom.
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This year, Shell Pakistan invested in a network of storage facilities, road and rail transportation and pipelines to handle the estimated increase in Pakistan's petroleum product demand from 14 million tons today to 25 million tons by 2000.
As plastic is a petroleum based product these small particles act as persistent organic polluters, which means that they form a sponge attracting toxins such as insecticides and pesticides.
That it's a non-biodegradable product made from petroleum whereas fur is very biodegradable and has a long shelf-life.
Their goal is to capture and process the gas, mixing the end product with the petroleum extracted from the same field.
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For the past 18 months engineers have been testing coal, petroleum coke (a refining by-product) and other fuels in the plant, tinkering with the catalyst and gathering data.
Plus, the containers for a large part of the way you distribute your product also relies on the price of petroleum products.
DeLauro also hinted that the administration might consider releasing product from the 571-million barrel Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a suggestion the White House is certain to refuse outright.
After much talk of molecules, bonds and synthesis, Harfouch insists that the final product is so refined that even the most microscopic amount of petroleum has been filtered out.
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And diesel, too, although in this case the product is actually biodiesel, which is in some ways superior to the petroleum-based stuff.
Further upside risks have stemmed from high international crude prices, their impact on freely priced petroleum products, the increase in administered coal prices and pick-up in non-food manufactured product prices.
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