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noun
an area in which there are large deposits of oil.
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Origin of oil field First recorded in 1890â95
Words nearby oil field oil derrick ,
oil drum ,
oiled ,
oiled silk ,
oiler ,
oil field ,
oilfired ,
oilfish ,
oilgas ,
oil gilding ,
oil gland
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How to use oil field in a sentence Years later, when he tried to salvage his reputation and his fortune in the oil field s of Texas, Cook was convicted of swindling thousands of stockholders in a Ponzi scheme.
Thatâs especially common in places like Long Beach and Los Angeles built atop rich oil field s.
From the dioxin-laced soils of Da Nang to the scorched oil field s of Kuwait, the toxic legacy of conflict can be just as deadly as battlefield violence.
The company did have to pay to plant restoration trees and vegetation elsewhere on the oil field .
By 2011, surface expressions had broken out there regularly, and CalGEM had cited the company twice for oil field waste, though it wasnât fined.
The eating disorder field remains divided over the potential efficacy of such measures.
âHe was a brave field commander and an expert in intelligence, and in organizing popular and tribal forces,â said the eulogist.
The State Department found that with high oil prices, the tar sands would be mined for oil, pipeline or no.
Pulling oil from the tar sands is costly, even more so when you tack transportation costs on top.
The focus here was on how fast oil would come out of the Canadian fields.
He distinguished himself in several campaigns, especially in the Peninsular war, and was raised to the rank of field marshal.
In pursuing his alchemical researches, he discovered Prussian blue, and the animal oil which bears his name.
We had six field-pieces, but we only took four, harnessed wit twice the usual number of horses.
There were two battalions, together about a thousand men; and they brought a field-piece with them.
The reveillée of the sleeping Mexicans was the discharge of our two field-pieces loaded with canister.
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British Dictionary definitions for oil field
noun
an area containing reserves of petroleum, esp one that is already being exploited
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Scientific definitions for oil field
An area with reserves of recoverable petroleum, especially one with several oil-producing wells.
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