How to Use oil patch in a Sentence

oil patch

noun

• And so the big oil patch, fracking, and so forth was not as rapid in the last year.
  — NBC News, 18 Aug. 2019
• In the world’s hottest oil patch, jitters mount that a bust is near.
  — Megan Hess, Bloomberg.com, 25 Sep. 2017
• Feld thinks the good times will continue to roll in the oil patch.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 6 May 2022
• Now, the region may even become the world's largest oil patch over the next decade.
  — Jessica Summers and Sheela Tobben, Houston Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2018
• What a difference a few years make in the Texas oil patch.
  — Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2023
• Dozens of small drillers helped fuel a resurgence in the busiest U.S. oil patch over the past two years.
  — Collin Eaton, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
• On Thursday, though, there was nowhere in the oil patch to hide from losses.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2023
• Jim Hackett has found his new calling in the oil patch.
  — Lynn Cook, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2017
• Yet there are rising concerns that the rally in the oil patch is too good to be true.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 9 June 2020
• In the Texas oil patch, innovation seems to find a way.
  — Mitchell Schnurman, Dallas News, 7 Apr. 2023
• As has happened so often before in the oil patch, boom has turned to bust.
  — Jeffrey Ball, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2020
• But Buffett has been doubling down on his bets on legacy tech and the oil patch as of late.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 30 Apr. 2022
• Good news from the oil patch: Jobs are plentiful and salaries are soaring.
  — Mari Novik, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2023
• There’s finally some good news in the US oil patch after a rough couple of years.
  — Baker Institute, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
• The shale wells will return someday, when another boom roars through the oil patch.
  — Richard Mason, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2020
• From there, Ator sped more than 10 miles through the West Texas oil patch, shooting randomly from his sedan.
  — Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2019
• An oil patch in Newport Beach may soon become a public park with ocean views.
  — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2021
• Steelworkers in Youngstown, Ohio, have lost jobs providing pipe to the oil patch.
  — Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
• Producers scrambled to shut in wells and halve investments in the oil patch.
  — Luis Santiago, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2020
• But outside the oil patch, there are some promising trends in energy.
  — Dallas News, 3 Nov. 2020
• Permian Basin Jones is not the only billionaire in the oil patch.
  — Sergio Chapa, Houston Chronicle, 16 Sep. 2019
• The two oil giants’ spending in the heart of America’s oil patch is growing, in a split from smaller peers.
  — Lauren Silva Laughlin, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2019
• As the nation’s fifth-largest oil producer, Colorado won’t escape the prolonged pain in the oil patch.
  — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 2 June 2020
• The Texas oil patch is reeling from the loss of one of its most colorful characters—T. Boone Pickens.
  — Cyrus Sanati, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2019
• In the mid-'80s, for instance, Landgraf says that oil patch workers in the Permian fled for other jobs across the country.
  — Popular Science, 5 Oct. 2020
• There’s still promising news for the industry coming out of Alaska’s oil patch, with big projects on the horizon.
  — Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2022
• Even Houston, with its sleek office towers and sprawling suburbs, can feel far from the oil patch.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 5 Mar. 2020
• And the Texas oil patch continued to expand with a net increase of 2,500 jobs — the biggest one-month percentage gain.
  — Mitchell Schnurman, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2023
• Anyone who has ever worked in the oil patch proper knows that the floor of an active drilling rig has long been one of the most dangerous places in the business.
  — David Blackmon, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
• There are some reasons for optimism for the state’s fiscal picture coming from the oil patch.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024