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What (who) is sweet-oil - definition

TYPE OF PETROLEUM
Sweet crude; Light sweet crude; Sweet crude petroleum; Light sweet crude oil

sweet-oil      
n.
Olive-oil.
Sweet crude oil         
Sweet crude oil is a type of petroleum. The New York Mercantile Exchange designates petroleum with less than 0.
Mechanitis lysimnia         
SPECIES OF INSECT
Confused Tigerwing; Confused tigerwing; Lysimnia tigerwing; Lysimnia Tigerwing; Sweet-oil tiger; Sweet-oil Tiger
Mechanitis lysimnia, the confused tigerwing, sweet-oil tiger or lysimnia tigerwing, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1793.

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Sweet crude oil

Sweet crude oil is a type of petroleum. The New York Mercantile Exchange designates petroleum with less than 0.5% sulfur as sweet.

Petroleum containing higher levels of sulfur is called sour crude oil.

Sweet crude oil contains small amounts of hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide. High-quality, low-sulfur crude oil is commonly used for processing into gasoline and is in high demand, particularly in industrialized nations. Light sweet crude oil is the most sought-after version of crude oil as it contains a disproportionately large fraction that is directly processed (fractionation) into gasoline (naphtha), kerosene, and high-quality diesel (gas oil).

The term sweet originates from the fact that a low level of sulfur provides the oil with a relatively sweet taste and pleasant smell, compared to sulfurous oil. Nineteenth-century prospectors would taste and smell small quantities of oil to determine its quality.

Examples of use of sweet-oil
1. In its bid for raw materials, specifically for the high quality sulfur–free sweet oil of Africa, and other raw materials, China has effectively stood against US hegemony in Africa.
2. What the US and much of the rest of the world, needs is more refining capacity to make more petrol and more light, sweet oil âЂ« neither is in abundant supply and neither is controlled by Opec.
3. But traders, who see the extra volume at closer to 1.4m b/d that could take some time to get to the market, said this would do little to lower prices because Opec did not have the light, sweet oil that the market needed to make petrol.