oil field
nounDefinition of oil field
: a region rich in petroleum deposits
especially
: one that has been brought into production
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The problems stem from the production method used in the oil field west of Bakersfield. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "California orders halt to oil spill flowing since 2003," 26 Aug. 2019 Various forms of barium are used as a stabilizing additive to fracking fluids, and companies including the oil field services firm Halliburton testified that using alternative products would decrease drilling productivity. — Lydia Depillis, ProPublica, "Bibles but Not Textbooks: Trump’s Tariff Exemptions Pick Winners and Losers," 22 Aug. 2019 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, PEOPLE.com, "One Year Later: See Confessed Family Murderer Chris Watts' Case in Pictures," 13 Aug. 2019 Former laborers left families behind to work in the West Texas oil fields. — Mark Dent, WIRED, "The Hard-Luck Texas Town That Bet on Bitcoin—and Lost," 11 July 2019 One of the material-support statute’s central aims is cutting off financing for terrorism—of preventing, for example, ISIS from fund-raising online or making money from oil fields. — Jenna Krajeski, The New Yorker, "A Victim of Terrorism Faces Deportation for Helping Terrorists," 11 June 2019 Ayer is in early talks to direct Lionsgate's WWII thriller El-Alamein, which tells the story of the war in Northern Africa as the British and German forces faced off in an attempt to seize power of the Suez Canal and the Middle East oil fields. — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, "David Ayer in Talks to Direct WWII Tank Drama 'El-Alamein' for Lionsgate," 8 Aug. 2019 Hardly a day goes by without reports of the growing oil leak in nearby Cymric oil field. — Los Angeles Times, "California’s biggest oil spill in decades brings more defiance than anger from locals," 28 July 2019 But opponents say the new restrictions would make Pacific Northwest refineries effectively off-limits to crude from the Bakken region, one of the nation’s most productive oil fields straddling the North Dakota-Montana border. — Matthew Brown, The Seattle Times, "Montana, North Dakota push against Washington state rail law," 18 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'oil field.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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