Meanings of rock oil in English

There's a lot of gas under the ground here, and rock oil besides.

In an outlying and barren part of the chief's land, they came upon rock oil.

Was he prospecting for rock oil, maybe?

I can make gas from rock oil, if I need to, and from coal as well; it's not hard to make gas.

Petroleum, or rock oil, is a dark greenish brown liquid which when refined yields gasolene, naphtha, benzine, kerosene, lubricating oils, and paraffin.

Everyone knew about the rock oil that came bubbling up from belowground near the town-therewas a place in the hills there called Oil Creek.

It meant another visit to Warren's, and the remedy he brought was a strong-smelling oil, called in those days " rock oil"- acrudepetroleum.

Jefferies and Petrie Partners advised Rock Oil on the deal.

Rock Oil, founded in 2014, has about 24,783 acres in the Permian Basin in Texas.

Actor Shailene Woodley is arrested for trespassing at a protest at the Standing Rock oil pipeline in North Dakota on Monday.

"Kier's Rock Oil" afterwards had an even more extended use.

The deal to buy Rock Oil Holdings LLC from private equity firm Riverstone Holdings LLC will give SM Energy 24,783 acres in Howard County.