oil and gas, reincarnated as everything else in your house.
means a chemical compound derived from petroleum or natural gas, used as the raw material for plastics, fertilizers, fibers, and thousands of everyday products.
from the term rose with the 20th-century oil industry, when refiners realized crude wasn't just for burning: crack it hard enough and you get ethylene, propylene, and benzene, the building blocks of modern materials science.
dow chemical — midland, michigan giant refining ethylene into plastics since 1897.
saudi aramco sabic — world's largest petrochemical complex, jubail industrial city, saudi arabia.
houston ship channel — densest petrochemical corridor on earth, over 200 plants.
bhopal disaster 1984 — union carbide pesticide plant leak killed thousands, india.