How to Use oil well in a Sentence

oil well

noun
  • Its steel pipes are used for oil wells.
    — Ricky Sayer, CBS News, 8 May 2026
  • The project plowed through tar and oil wells that needed to be capped.
    — Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 7 May 2026
  • And oil wells and refineries can’t be turned back on overnight.
    — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
  • There are a few oil wells in her county that sit near a water source.
    — Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • An oil well is just an asset, but a football team is a story.
    — Elif Batuman, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The wave-free beach where each view of the ocean must include a cargo ship or an oil well.
    — Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2024
  • The shallow hole is not much of an oil well by today’s standards.
    — Claudia Capos, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • There have been no reports from tankers or oil wells about potential spills.
    — Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 8 Mar. 2024
  • While most wells in the area seek natural gas, Hopewell plans to drill oil wells.
    — Sergio Chapa, Houston Chronicle, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Explosive gas flares from nearby oil wells spew an oily, flammable residue on the plants.
    — Sheyla Urdaneta Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, New York Times, 22 July 2023
  • Pump jacks extract crude oil from oil wells in Midland, Texas.
    — Dan Molinski and Sarah McFarlane, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
  • Boyles said city records show that an oil well from the 1920s lies below the homes.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The lower delta is riddled with hundreds of active oil wells.
    — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 26 Feb. 2018
  • How bad are the health consequences of growing up in a home a few hundred feet from an oil well?
    — Jim Newton, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2024
  • In times of need, oil wells could be drilled in those regions to produce fuel for the Navy.
    — Scott L. Montgomery, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Oil Bay is the head of an old road that leads up the ridge to the site of Alaska’s first oil well.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2021
  • At one point Signal Hill was covered with a forest of oil wells.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
  • An oil well in the Nowruz Oil Field in Iran begins spilling oil.
    — CNN, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Fracturing the rock creates pathways for the oil to drain into the oil well.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 25 Apr. 2017
  • The decline in oil demand will dampen the need to continue drilling oil wells.
    — Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
  • The company had professed to be trying to plug the leaking oil well but seemed to make no progress.
    — Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The most productive oil well on the planet had just been discovered.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Middle Eastern oil wells were largely shut off during the war.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 15 June 2026
  • Middle Eastern oil wells were largely shut off during the war.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 24 May 2026
  • Other parts of Kern County host the state’s largest clusters of oil wells.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
  • When pumping water out of oil wells, the producer cleans the water.
    — Kelsey Brown, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Studies have found oil wells can emit carcinogens and are linked to adverse health effects.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2026
  • Claude Gilbert always thought Colorado was an untapped oil well.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2022
  • The sheriff's office said the explosion happened at an oil well site.
    — ABC News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • My blood would be flying around my insides with the force of Jed Clampett’s oil well.
    — Ellyn Laub, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Oct. 2019

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