How to Use oil field in a Sentence

oil field

noun
  • These were not simple oil fields.
    — Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • In your view, can those oil fields be secure?
    — ABC News, 4 Jan. 2026
  • These oil fields have been in disrepair for years.
    — ABC News, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The contest is no longer just about who controls the oil fields.
    — Derek Chollet, semafor.com, 25 Mar. 2026
  • That first kiss led them west to seek their fortune in the oil fields of Texas.
    — Margaret Carlson, Time, 18 Apr. 2018
  • There have been – oil fields that have been just shut in because there's no place to store the oil.
    — CBS News, 4 May 2026
  • New oil fields will be sought to extract from, new mines dug, forests torn down to sell timber.
    — Aissa Dearing, JSTOR Daily, 9 Jan. 2025
  • At the same time, there are large oil fields slated to start pumping crude in the next few years.
    — Irina Slav, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2017
  • One runs the bank that takes in oil payments from abroad and the other controls the oil fields.
    — Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 3 May 2025
  • 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
  • Don’t be surprised if the company that owns the oil field files a lawsuit.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
  • Campaign groups are now fighting the company in the courts as well as on the oil fields.
    — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The spending data tells a story about life in the oil field, Pierce said.
    — Rachel Nostrant, Houston Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Both regions include many of Sudan’s oil fields and gold mines.
    — Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Both regions include many of Sudan’s oil fields and gold mines.
    — ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • The oil field is believed to produce over 1 million barrels of crude oil a day.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019
  • An oil platform in the Clair Ridge oil field in the North Sea.
    — Dan Molinski and Sarah McFarlane, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2019
  • It's destroyed, all those oil fields that used to produce a lot and wealth for their country and their people.
    — CBS News, 4 Jan. 2026
  • But how does the United States intend to secure the oil fields?
    — ABC News, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Those oil fields have not benefited the people of Venezuela in over a decade.
    — ABC News, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Alyeska is owned by three companies with major shares of North Slope oil fields.
    — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Pipelines from some of Iran’s biggest oil fields connect to Kharg.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The government took control of the oil fields in Raqqa province.
    — Ghaith Alsayed, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2026
  • My uncle who works in the oil field for the last 30 years will nitpick every little thing.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The crash occurred near Burgan oil field, in the southeastern desert.
    — Fox News, 2 Apr. 2018
  • In 1958, exports of crude oil from the Oloibiri oil fields began.
    — Noo Saro-Wiwa, The Dial, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Within hours though, the oil field worker in his 40s was cold, wet, exhausted and scared.
    — Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2021
  • His neighbor Lupe Campos, who worked in the oil fields for more than three decades, lives three blocks from a flare.
    — ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Well, ultimately, this is not about securing the oil fields.
    — ABC News, 4 Jan. 2026

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