crude oil

English

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Noun

crude oil (usually uncountable, plural crude oils)

1. Unrefined oil; as it is found underground, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons.
   • 1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 494:

     Further west, in Pembrokeshire, the Esso Petroleum Co. refinery at Milford Haven, opened last November, is designed to berth the world's largest tankers and to process, initially, 4,500,000 tons of crude oil a year.

Synonyms

• (Unrefined oil): crude, fossil oil, petroleum, rock oil

Related terms

• syncrude

Translations

unrefined oil

• Bulgarian: суров петрол (surov petrol)
• Catalan: cru (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 原油 (zh) (yuányóu)

• Danish: råolie (da) c
• Dutch: ruwe olie f, aardolie (nl) f
• Esperanto: nafto
• Finnish: raakaöljy (fi)
• French: pétrole brut m
• Georgian: ნედლი ნავთობი (nedli navtobi), გაუწმენდავი ნავთობი (gauc̣mendavi navtobi), დაუმუშავებელი ნავთობი (daumušavebeli navtobi)
• German: Rohöl (de) n, Erdöl (de) n
• Greek: αργό πετρέλαιο (el) n (argó petrélaio)
• Hungarian: nyersolaj (hu)
• Icelandic: hráolía f
• Indonesian: minyak mentah
• Irish: amhola f
• Italian: greggio (it) m
• Japanese: 原油 (ja) (げんゆ, gen'yu)
• Korean: 원유(原油) (ko) (wonyu)
• Macedonian: су́рова на́фта f (súrova náfta), непрочи́стена на́фта f (nepročístena náfta)
• Maori: hinu urutapu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: råolje m or f

  Nynorsk: råolje m or f

• Persian: نفت خام (fa) (naft-e xâm)
• Polish: ropa (pl) f
• Portuguese: petróleo bruto m, petróleo cru m, crude (pt) m
• Romanian: țiței neprelucrat n
• Russian: сырая нефть (ru) (syraja neftʹ), неочищенная нефть f (neočiščennaja neftʹ)
• Spanish: crudo (es)
• Swahili: mafuta ghafi
• Swedish: råolja (sv) c
• Tagalog: krudo
• Telugu: ముడి చమురు (muḍi camuru)
• Turkish: ham petrol (tr), yer yağı (tr)
• Ukrainian: сира нафта f (syra nafta), неочищена нафта f (neočyščena nafta)
• West Frisian: ierdoalje

See also

• Brent crude

Anagrams

• cloudier, coelurid