crude oil
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- noun
- /kruːd ɔɪl/
- Specialized
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petróleo crudo
- Crude oil can be shipped via mammoth supertankers in order to better utilize our country's vast supplies of yet untapped natural resources.
- crude oil prices
- crude oil production
- crude oil market
We have, you know, flares because, you know, refining crude oil is it's a dangerous process.
- We have, you know, flares because, you know, refining crude oil is it's a dangerous process.
- And here we are setting the world's crude oil price.
- Look, crude oil, crude oil exports.
- Their liquid natural gas, their fuel, their crude oil.
- It it's being mined like coal, it's refined like crude oil, it's stored in high vaults like gold, and it's sold like rolled steel.
- OK, so oil price, I don't know if you follow the crude oil, but you don't give a shit.
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The price of crude oil has nearly doubled.
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The second step toward making America less dependent on foreign oil is to produce and refine more crude oil here at home in environmentally sensitive ways.
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And then you have light sweet crude oil, right.
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Now, new ways must be found to produce crude oil.
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However, energy futures have been limited mainly to crude oil and natural gas.
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Eastern Europe is lacking in diversified energy resources, particularly crude oil and natural gas.
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Surface concentrations of crude oil that spread over the Santa Barbara Channel area affected seine fishing.
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Advances in supply technologies influence the tradeoff between oil imports and domestic crude oil production.
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Today it is Russia's largest oil company, producing more than 50 million tons of crude oil annually.
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The price of crude oil has nearly doubled in the last year due to increased global demand.
Synonyms
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4.4
A thick dark liquid found under the ground that people use to make fuels like gasoline and diesel
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Oil taken from the ground before it is made into fuel
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
How Thick
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'unrefined petroleum' is directly derivable from combining 'crude' (unprocessed, natural) with 'oil' (a liquid used for fuel/lubrication); the compound denotes oil in its natural, unrefined state. This compositional, cross-linguistically common pattern follows normal adjective + noun formation and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Crude oil puts together crude, meaning 'raw' or not cleaned, and oil. The name comes from the image of dark, sticky oil taken straight from the ground that must be cleaned and turned into fuels and other products, so 'crude oil' means oil in its natural state that has not been cleaned or changed yet.