How to Use oil field in a Sentence

oil field

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• 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
• 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
• 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
• Counties in western North Dakota, where the Bakken oil field is, saw much of the Latino growth.
  — NBC news, 15 Sep. 2021
• Every other week, Hunter commuted back home — a 10-hour drive — to work in the oil fields.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
• 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 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
• 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
• Those two endeavors converge when one of the women in his phone turns up dead in an oil field in West Texas.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland, 26 July 2022
• Slow and steady, judging by the three major oil field services firms that unveiled results in the past week.
  — Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
• Ronny Dufrene, a 39-year-old oil field worker from Lafayette, returned to his hometown to help.
  — Matt Sedensky and Aaron Morrison, Chron, 6 Sep. 2021
• October’s shut-offs stretched from the redwood forests of the North Coast to the oil fields outside Bakersfield.
  — Joaquin Palomino, SFChronicle.com, 3 Nov. 2019
• The calf was found by oil field workers about 4 miles inland from the Beaufort Sea, in Alaska’s extreme north.
  — Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
• Some have headed to the Permian, the large oil field that stretches across Texas and New Mexico.
  — Christa Case Bryant, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Apr. 2022
• His father, Charles, was a farmer who later worked the oil fields, and his mother, Jessie (Coke), was a homemaker.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2019
• The Permian Basin, the western Texas oil field, led the gains this week, with operators adding a net six rigs.
  — Erin Douglas, Houston Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2020
• Kharampur is a mature oil field but BP and Rosneft are planning to develop the project to pump gas.
  — Mark Thompson, CNN, 24 Feb. 2022
• Ruiz – who had been working at an oil field in Texas to support his family – says that for the second time, everything changed in a moment with the death of their third child.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2024
• The money will go into a community fund that will pay for parks and other benefits for the communities within 2½ miles of the oil field.
  — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024