crude oil

noun

1. petroleum as it comes from the ground, before refining.

crude oil

noun

1. petroleum before it has been refined

crude oil

/ kro̅o̅d /

1. Unrefined petroleum.

Word History and Origins

Origin of crude oil¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

If completed, the 1,200-mile pipeline would convey 830,000 barrels of diluted crude oil from Alberta to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast every day.

From Popular-Science

These are basically short-term jobs, lasting on average 19½ weeks, to assemble the pipeline that would help carry heavy crude oil from Canada’s Alberta province to the Gulf Coast.

From Washington Post

The company will build its first plant somewhere in the Texas Permian Basin, an area rich in shale crude oil and natural gas.

From Washington Post

“Instead of consuming fossil crude oil, jet aviation fuels and petrochemical starting compounds are produced from a valuable and renewable raw material, namely, carbon dioxide,” they write in a paper in Nature Communications.

From Singularity Hub 

“We removed 400 tons of crude oil that was sent back to the refinery,” says Cesareo of early deployments.

From Fortune

Total oil production figures include crude oil, natural gas liquids, and other liquid energy products.

From The Daily Beast

Revenue is generated from the sale of crude oil, according to Luay al-Khatteeb, an energy expert at the Brookings Doha Center.

From The Daily Beast

Not only did it look like and have the texture of crude oil, it tasted like it had been recently drilled.

From The Daily Beast

For example, the 1975 Energy Policy and Conservation Act bars most exports of U.S. crude oil.

From The Daily Beast

Another crisis in the Middle East, another jump in crude oil prices.

From The Daily Beast

Besides these, two parts linseed oil to one part kerosene is a good polish; also one-half turpentine to one-half crude oil.

From Project Gutenberg

Take a master petroleum chemist, infinitely skilled in the separation of crude oil into its fractions.

From Project Gutenberg

The crude oil is almost black, and consists of about 85 per cent.

From Project Gutenberg

The torch must use either gasoline or kerosene, and not crude oil, as the crude oil deposits too much carbon on the parts.

From Project Gutenberg

Various names (as above) are given to the crude oil thus obtained, according to its source.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• crude
• oil
• petrol
• petroleum