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
  • 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
  • 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

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