oil field
an area in which there are large deposits of oil.
Origin of oil field
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How to use oil field in a sentence
And this week CNPC agreed to buy 10 percent of Vankorneft, a Rosneft subsidiary, which operates the lucrative Vankor oil field.
Consider the painting called “In the High Island oil field, February, After the Passage of a Cold Front,” from 1990.
Rackstraw Downes’s Art and Essays Are Two Sides of the Same Genius | Bill Morris | June 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt depicts an exhausted Texas oil field on scrub land, an old railroad bed and a watery ditch converging in the distance.
Rackstraw Downes’s Art and Essays Are Two Sides of the Same Genius | Bill Morris | June 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAccounts emerge from the harrowing Islamist attack on an oil field in the Sahara Desert.
Well, on June 21 the Chinese opened the first major new oil field in Iraq in 20 years.
From what Mr. Littell told us, the oil field promoters would like all the crooks rounded up.
Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil | Alice B. EmersonI went to work doing harvest work, some in oil field in Chickasha, Okla., and done farm work.
Warren Commission (6 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyThere is a keener mind than mine behind it—and behind this oil field business, as well.
The Grafters | Francis LyndeAnd they were operating in the Rangely, Colo., oil field, is that correct?
Warren Commission (9 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyColo., it stopped being an operating oil field, and it became a statistical job.
Warren Commission (9 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
British Dictionary definitions for oilfield
/ (ˈɔɪlˌfiːld) /
an area containing reserves of petroleum, esp one that is already being exploited
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Scientific definitions for oil field
An area with reserves of recoverable petroleum, especially one with several oil-producing wells.
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