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
• Alaska’s post-refuge future Even without drilling in the refuge for now, there’s still plenty of action in Alaska’s oil patch.
  — Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2022
• Drillers dropped eight rigs in the past week, according to oilfield-service firm Baker Hughes, leaving 496 active across the U.S. oil patch.
  — David Uberti, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024