How to Use oil field in a Sentence
oil field
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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
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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
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Campaign groups are now fighting the company in the courts as well as on the oil fields.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 24 Jan. 2024
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Natural gas and oil fields lie in a strip along the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea.
—Ian Palmer, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
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Don’t be surprised if the company that owns the oil field files a lawsuit.
—Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
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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
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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
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Counties in western North Dakota, where the Bakken oil field is, saw much of the Latino growth.
—NBC news, 15 Sep. 2021
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Every other week, Hunter commuted back home — a 10-hour drive — to work in the oil fields.
—Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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Within hours though, the oil field worker in his 40s was cold, wet, exhausted and scared.
—Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2021
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Alyeska is owned by three companies with major shares of North Slope oil fields.
—Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2023
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An oil drilling rig in a Rosneft oil field near Sokolovka, Russia.
—Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2022
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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
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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
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Slow and steady, judging by the three major oil field services firms that unveiled results in the past week.
—Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Despite its youth, Medterra has a good reputation in the CBD oil field.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 May 2022
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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
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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
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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
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The Edmonton Oilers showcase a worldview in which triumph, luck and rugged work pay off – beliefs at home on the ice or in the oil field.
—Cody Musselman, The Conversation, 19 June 2024
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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
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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
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State regulators returned home with these and other pitches from the oil industry on how to manage aging oil fields.
—Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 24 June 2024
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