How to Use oil field in a Sentence

oil field

noun

• An oil platform in the Clair Ridge oil field in the North Sea.
  — Dan Molinski and Sarah McFarlane, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2019
• That first kiss led them west to seek their fortune in the oil fields of Texas.
  — Margaret Carlson, Time, 18 Apr. 2018
• Her dad worked the oil fields while her mom cleaned hotels in the morning and houses in the evenings.
  — Nick Fouriezos, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
• Legend has it that H. L. Hunt won the lease to his first oil field in a poker game.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• Campaign groups are now fighting the company in the courts as well as on the oil fields.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 24 Jan. 2024
• The oil field sent its first tanker of oil back to shore in 1951 and construction began in earnest on the city.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 6 Nov. 2024
• Natural gas and oil fields lie in a strip along the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• In August, Goudreau got in touch with White about a plan to help secure oil fields in Venezuela.
  — NBC News, 8 May 2020
• The Alpine oil field, a major complex on the North Slope, is just 13 miles away on a gravel road.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2018
• Don’t be surprised if the company that owns the oil field files a lawsuit.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
• Then Watts drove 45 minutes to a remote oil field, with Shanann's corpse in the bed of the truck and his still-living girls in the backseat.
  — Steve Helling, Peoplemag, 4 Oct. 2022
• For a time there were fires which threatened Signal Hill, Long Beach’s oil field area.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
• New oil fields will be sought to extract from, new mines dug, forests torn down to sell timber.
  — Aissa Dearing, JSTOR Daily, 9 Jan. 2025
• Then Watts drove 45 minutes to a remote oil field, with Shanann’s corpse in the bed of the truck and his still-living girls in the backseat.
  — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• Counties in western North Dakota, where the Bakken oil field is, saw much of the Latino growth.
  — NBC news, 15 Sep. 2021
• The problems stem from the production method used in the oil field west of Bakersfield.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2019
• Every other week, Hunter commuted back home — a 10-hour drive — to work in the oil fields.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
• The oil field is believed to produce over 1 million barrels of crude oil a day.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019
• My uncle who works in the oil field for the last 30 years will nitpick every little thing.
  — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 9 Jan. 2025
• And each time a new pipeline is built, or a new oil field is drilled, the transition is prolonged.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
• The crash occurred near Burgan oil field, in the southeastern desert.
  — Fox News, 2 Apr. 2018
• The oil was extracted from Buzios, the world’s largest deep water oil field and the most productive in Brazil.
  — Franklin Briceño, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2022
• This was the beginning of a series of discoveries about the Ghawar Field, which would turn out to be the largest oil field in the world.
  — al, 11 Mar. 2022
• Within hours though, the oil field worker in his 40s was cold, wet, exhausted and scared.
  — Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2021
• That was an apparent reference to the oil fields in Deir el-Zour.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• Fracking occurs in some of the state’s largest oil fields, mostly in the Central Valley.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2019
• Alyeska is owned by three companies with major shares of North Slope oil fields.
  — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2023
• An oil drilling rig in a Rosneft oil field near Sokolovka, Russia.
  — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2022
• Chevron struck a deal to explore and develop a large Iraqi oil field in Dhi Qar Province.
  — Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner, 20 Aug. 2020
• Yet, busy with his job and family this spring, the 46-year-old oil field safety worker just didn't get around to it.
  — Christopher Snowbeck, Star Tribune, 3 July 2021

Last Updated: 28 Feb 2025