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That site could be a shipping port, sewage outlet, oil well platform, or pretty much anything else.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 6 Dec. 2024
The original version of AB 2617 included $10,000-a-day fines for all low-producing oil wells statewide.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2024
This ability to quickly increase domestic production is greatly enhanced by the presence of high volumes of associated gas in every oil well drilled in the Permian Basin, which currently ranks as the country’s second biggest gas basin behind the Marcellus Shale region.
—David Blackmon, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
This oil well began the boom in Ranger, Texas, closely allied with booms in Desdemona and Breckenridge.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Oct. 2024
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First Known Use
1847, in the meaning defined above
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“Oil well.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oil%20well. Accessed 20 Dec. 2024.
Kids Definition
oil well
noun
: a well from which petroleum is obtained
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