oil patch

noun

, Slang.

First recorded in 1960–65

Everything looks the same on either side of the Texas-New Mexico border in the great oil patch of the Permian Basin.

Interviewed on Fortune’s Leadership Next podcast, Chevron CEO Michael Wirth acknowledged the current difficulties in the oil patch.

Lliam Hildebrand wanted to use his skills as a welder in the oil patch to assist the green-energy transition—he just couldn’t get a job.

Meanwhile, Project Bakken has announced the arrest of another big oil patch meth ring.

The Bush family, with its Yankee and Ivy League origins and its oil-patch mythology, is both Northern and Western.

April 23, 2024inveterate

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