How to Use oil patch in a Sentence

oil patch

noun
  • In the world’s hottest oil patch, jitters mount that a bust is near.
    — Megan Hess, Bloomberg.com, 25 Sep. 2017
  • In other words, the oil patch is growing up.
    — Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Feld thinks the good times will continue to roll in the oil patch.
    — John Dorfman, Forbes, 6 May 2022
  • And so the big oil patch, fracking, and so forth was not as rapid in the last year.
    — NBC News, 18 Aug. 2019
  • Now, the region may even become the world's largest oil patch over the next decade.
    — Jessica Summers and Sheela Tobben, Houston Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2018
  • As has happened so often before in the oil patch, boom has turned to bust.
    — Jeffrey Ball, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Yet there are rising concerns that the rally in the oil patch is too good to be true.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 9 June 2020
  • On Thursday, though, there was nowhere in the oil patch to hide from losses.
    — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2023
  • But outside the oil patch, there are some promising trends in energy.
    — Dallas News, 3 Nov. 2020
  • The shale wells will return someday, when another boom roars through the oil patch.
    — Richard Mason, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2020
  • But Buffett has been doubling down on his bets on legacy tech and the oil patch as of late.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 30 Apr. 2022
  • For her part, Riley has no regrets about leaving the Texas oil patch.
    — Kirk Siegler, NPR, 8 May 2024
  • An oil patch in Newport Beach may soon become a public park with ocean views.
    — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2021
  • Producers scrambled to shut in wells and halve investments in the oil patch.
    — Luis Santiago, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2020
  • But in the oil patch, the mood is anything but celebratory.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Against that dismal backdrop, analysts warn more selling is likely to come in the oil patch.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 18 Mar. 2020
  • There are some reasons for optimism for the state’s fiscal picture coming from the oil patch.
    — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Jan. 2023
  • There’s finally some good news in the US oil patch after a rough couple of years.
    — Baker Institute, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Even Houston, with its sleek office towers and sprawling suburbs, can feel far from the oil patch.
    — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Steelworkers in Youngstown, Ohio, have lost jobs providing pipe to the oil patch.
    — Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The pioneers of fracking counted among the oil patch's most storied gamblers.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2020
  • Permian Basin Jones is not the only billionaire in the oil patch.
    — Sergio Chapa, Houston Chronicle, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The plunge has hit oil companies hard, causing cutbacks in Alaska’s oil patch in recent weeks.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2020
  • The two oil giants’ spending in the heart of America’s oil patch is growing, in a split from smaller peers.
    — Lauren Silva Laughlin, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2019
  • As the nation’s fifth-largest oil producer, Colorado won’t escape the prolonged pain in the oil patch.
    — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 2 June 2020
  • There’s still promising news for the industry coming out of Alaska’s oil patch, with big projects on the horizon.
    — Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Industry observers in Alaska give several reasons for the tepid job growth in the oil patch.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2022
  • The swift rebound in the oil patch is yet more evidence of the world economy recovering from the health crisis.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Anyone who has ever worked in the oil patch proper knows that the floor of an active drilling rig has long been one of the most dangerous places in the business.
    — David Blackmon, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Still, there continued to be misery in the oil patch – and the hotel sector, judging from Hegar’s numbers.
    — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2020

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