How to Use oil field in a Sentence

oil field

noun

• Her dad worked the oil fields while her mom cleaned hotels in the morning and houses in the evenings.
  — Nick Fouriezos, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
• Legend has it that H. L. Hunt won the lease to his first oil field in a poker game.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• Campaign groups are now fighting the company in the courts as well as on the oil fields.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 24 Jan. 2024
• Natural gas and oil fields lie in a strip along the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• Don’t be surprised if the company that owns the oil field files a lawsuit.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
• Then Watts drove 45 minutes to a remote oil field, with Shanann's corpse in the bed of the truck and his still-living girls in the backseat.
  — Steve Helling, Peoplemag, 4 Oct. 2022
• For a time there were fires which threatened Signal Hill, Long Beach’s oil field area.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
• Counties in western North Dakota, where the Bakken oil field is, saw much of the Latino growth.
  — NBC news, 15 Sep. 2021
• Every other week, Hunter commuted back home — a 10-hour drive — to work in the oil fields.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
• And each time a new pipeline is built, or a new oil field is drilled, the transition is prolonged.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
• The oil was extracted from Buzios, the world’s largest deep water oil field and the most productive in Brazil.
  — Franklin Briceño, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2022
• This was the beginning of a series of discoveries about the Ghawar Field, which would turn out to be the largest oil field in the world.
  — al, 11 Mar. 2022
• Within hours though, the oil field worker in his 40s was cold, wet, exhausted and scared.
  — Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2021
• Alyeska is owned by three companies with major shares of North Slope oil fields.
  — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2023
• An oil drilling rig in a Rosneft oil field near Sokolovka, Russia.
  — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2022
• Yet, busy with his job and family this spring, the 46-year-old oil field safety worker just didn't get around to it.
  — Christopher Snowbeck, Star Tribune, 3 July 2021
• Those two endeavors converge when one of the women in his phone turns up dead in an oil field in West Texas.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland, 26 July 2022
• Ronny Dufrene, a 39-year-old oil field worker from Lafayette, returned to his hometown to help.
  — Matt Sedensky and Aaron Morrison, Chron, 6 Sep. 2021
• The calf was found by oil field workers about 4 miles inland from the Beaufort Sea, in Alaska’s extreme north.
  — Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
• Some have headed to the Permian, the large oil field that stretches across Texas and New Mexico.
  — Christa Case Bryant, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Apr. 2022
• Kharampur is a mature oil field but BP and Rosneft are planning to develop the project to pump gas.
  — Mark Thompson, CNN, 24 Feb. 2022
• Despite its youth, Medterra has a good reputation in the CBD oil field.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 May 2022
• In 2020, at the height of their involvement, Wagner seized control of Libya’s Sharara oil field, one of its biggest.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 20 June 2022
• Set in the 1920s, the crime drama epic revolves around the killing spree of the Osage Nation of Oklahoma, who reside on priceless oil fields.
  — Michaela Zee, Variety, 24 Sep. 2023
• Others believe that the United States plans to take over the country’s rich oil fields once the Viet Cong are defeated.
  — Diane Scharper, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• The county is centered on a vast oil field stretching from the Denver area into Wyoming and Nebraska.
  — Morgan Lee and Mead Gruver, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2022
• While some of it is simply the nature of the work, prisons are now also competing against oil field jobs that pay better.
  — Sean Murphy, ajc, 24 Sep. 2022
• The company has built a stream of revenue from guarding lucrative sites like oil fields and gold mines.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
• His father, Irvin, changed jobs frequently, working at a dairy and in an oil field, but also as a teacher.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2022
• The Beverly Center mall curves to skirt a drill site tapping an oil field in Beverly Hills.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024