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For instance, after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in August 1990, Iraqi forces placed explosive charges on Kuwaiti oil wells and began detonating them in January 1991.—Skip York, The Conversation, 27 June 2025 Everyone sat still, watching the barren landscape outside the window strewn with orange flames leaping from the scaffoldings erected over the oil wells.—Amir Ahmadi Arian, The Dial, 10 June 2025 The service sector includes just about anything that doesn’t come out of a factory, farm, mine, or oil well.—Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2025 The sound of the oil wells, the pressure coming out of the ground, was like working behind a jet turbine.—Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for oil well
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