gas field

noun

1. a district yielding natural gas.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gas field¹

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Example Sentences

In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission it attributed most of the huge loss to write-downs of the value of gas fields under ExxonMobil’s control.

From Washington Post

In December, Rosneft announced its discovery of “a large new gas field in the Arctic Kara Sea” with estimated gas reserves of 800 billion cubic meters.

From Ozy

Turkey, Greece and Cyprus are issuing threats and counterthreats as they scramble to gain a first-mover advantage over gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean, with Washington and Moscow trying to ward off each other’s influence in that region.

From Ozy

The first was the attack on a gas field in Algeria by an Islamist group, and subsequent kidnapping of dozens of foreign nationals.

From The Daily Beast

In 1890 I became interested in the natural gas field at Greentown, Ind.

From Project Gutenberg

The largest unoccupied field to-day is the fuel gas field, and who should step in and supply this demand?

From Project Gutenberg

Next to the fuel gas field I think I can see another field nearly as extensive, and that is the coal oil field.

From Project Gutenberg

The strongest wells are often kept burning for months in order to advertise a new gas field.

From Project Gutenberg