Bleu pétrole (Petrol blue) is the twelfth studio album by the French rocker Alain Bashung, released in March 2008 on Barclay Records.
The album is dedicated to Mick Larie, a member of Bluegrass Long Distance, who died in July 2007, the mandoline player and friend of Marcel Dadi and Patrick Sébastien.
The first single from the album was "Résidents de la République" ("Residents of the Republic").
Bleu pétrole was Bashung's last studio album;, who died on 14 March 2009.
[3] The French magazine Les Inrockuptibles called the album an "immense chef-d'œuvre" (a huge masterpiece).