[
US
/ˈɔɪɫˌfiɫd/
]
[ UK /ˈɔɪlfiːld/ ]
[ UK /ˈɔɪlfiːld/ ]
NOUN
- a region rich in petroleum deposits (especially one with producing oil wells)
How To Use oilfield In A Sentence
- The devastating sandstorms - fierce enough to keep a fire team from tackling oil well fires on Wednesday - actually extinguished fires burning at three well heads in the oilfield.
- Britain's oilfield services companies are all about to get hit between the eyes. Times, Sunday Times
- A preliminary geological survey in February 1919 showed that the oilfield could be exploited only by a company ‘rich enough to face indifferent success or failure’.
- Both provide Hunting Oilfield Services with a more complete range of connectors and related services for tubes for off-shore operators.
- ONGC, India's largest oil explorer by output, is seeing oil production stagnate at its aging oilfields in the country as reserves deplete. ONGC May Not Get Exxon Angola Stake
- One contingent of British troops reached the oilfields of Baku, which it occupied until September, when the Turks reoccupied the area.
- Secondary interpretation to log information of old oilfields has very important significance on reservoir reevaluation.
- The first gusher of the Kirkuk oilfield was not struck till 1926, after the League of Nations had finally awarded the area to Iraq, not Turkey.
- Several international oil giants and oilfield service companies are based in Port Harcourt.
- The Gurkhas occupy a depth position around the oilfields.