How to Use oil field in a Sentence

oil field

noun

• But as the troops left northern Syria, new soldiers were heading in to secure an expanse of oil fields in the country’s east.
  — NBC News, 2 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Saudi Arabia’s oil fields came under attack from Iran not in the Obama era, but on Trump’s watch.
  — Abbas Milani, The New York Review of Books, 8 Jan. 2020
• Other foreign workers were not departing and oil fields across the country were operating normally, the Iraqi oil ministry had said.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 6 Jan. 2020
• The recent drone attack on its oil field and a refinery in September, which knocked out half the Kingdom’s crude supply, is clearly fresh in investors’ minds.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2020
• Aramco marries very low costs — largely attributable to its matchless oil fields — to far higher output than any other oil company, resulting in a cash-spewing machine.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2019
• Reform in Venezuela, including allowing private companies to take over mature oil fields, saw an increase of over 1 mb/d from the supposedly post-peak nation.
  — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
• Trump administration officials have given five energy companies with strong ties to Houston another three months in the oil fields of Venezuela.
  — Sergio Chapa, Houston Chronicle, 18 Jan. 2020
• Its critics, however, see Norway's third-biggest oil field ever as a perfect symbol of the Scandinavian country's climate hypocrisy.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 19 Jan. 2020
• 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
• 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
• There are two major offshore oil fields and a handful of small towns, including Kirkenes.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024