How to Use oil field in a Sentence

oil field

noun
  • 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
  • The oil field is believed to produce over 1 million barrels of crude oil a day.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The president of the United States can’t say who attacked the oil fields in Saudi Arabia last week or why.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 20 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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