oilmen
- plural of oilman.
Example Sentences
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But to West Texas oilmen, it makes little sense to add expensive rigs and boost production when the war could be short-lived and crude prices drop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
It gave the oilmen and real estate developers and business titans across Texas who funneled cash to their alma mater bragging rights at the Petroleum Club of Houston and country clubs in Dallas.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2024
Two oilmen would come to grief, more or less, in the 1920s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
"Barrack has done deals with Saudi princes, Texas oilmen, a Caribbean dictator — even with Donald Trump," that sycophantic Fortune profile recounted.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2022
“Then one day they stopped. Today more than ten thousand wells remain scattered across the reservation, but they are generally what oilmen call “stripper” wells, each one generating less than fifteen barrels a day.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
