crude
- noun
- /kruːd/
- Specialized
- In September 1991, over 500,000 tons of crude were exchanged on this market.
- crude oil
- crude oil prices
- import crude
The discount on Russian crude is greater than it's ever been.
- The discount on Russian crude is greater than it's ever been.
- oil Fund and it tracks West TX intermediate crude and in particular the front month.
- In the environment we're in now, we're at a risk of losing all Russian crude.
- You know, they're buying their weaponry and stuff from China, Russia, Venezuela, oil, and now they're exporting their crude overseas and people are buying that.
- And here we are setting the world's crude oil price.
- We have, you know, flares because, you know, refining crude oil is it's a dangerous process.
- Yeah, it's called, I think it's called Amazon crude or crude.
- The battery in this sense is the crude oil.
- That will yeah, you buy crude and you'd sell kerosene cast and kerosene, OK.
- Their liquid natural gas, their fuel, their crude oil.
Examples
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Surface concentrations of crude oil that spread over the Santa Barbara Channel area affected seine fishing.
Academic text (1992) -
The discount on Russian crude is greater than it's ever been.
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From sweet light crude, the best in the world.
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And here we are setting the world's crude oil price.
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And let's just take the percent change from a year ago for Brent crude prices here.
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At the more recent price of $140 for a barrel of crude, the amount is far greater.
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China began to export crude oil and coal for commercial purposes in the mid-1970s.
Academic text (1993) -
In 1995, around 300,000 b/d of West African crudes moved to Asia.
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In addition, Atlantic Basin crudes are priced lower than Mideast crudes, though transportation costs to Asia are higher.
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The price of crude oil has significantly impacted global markets.
Synonyms
A slippery thick liquid that does not mix with water used for machines, fuel, or cooking
A thick dark liquid found under the ground that people use to make fuels like gasoline and diesel
A thick black oil from under the ground used to make fuel
People pump oil from shale using horizontal drilling and fracking
A dark thick oil found underground used for fuel and making products
A dark natural oil from ancient plants and animals that people use for fuel and products
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Crude for oil comes from the Latin crudus meaning 'raw', and it literally means 'raw oil' taken from the ground that is not yet refined. That's why refineries turn crude into gasoline and other products.