oil field

noun

1. an area in which there are large deposits of oil.

oil field

1. An area with reserves of recoverable petroleum, especially one with several oil-producing wells.

Word History and Origins

Origin of oil field¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

Years later, when he tried to salvage his reputation and his fortune in the oil fields of Texas, Cook was convicted of swindling thousands of stockholders in a Ponzi scheme.

From Time

That’s especially common in places like Long Beach and Los Angeles built atop rich oil fields.

From Voice of San Diego

From the dioxin-laced soils of Da Nang to the scorched oil fields of Kuwait, the toxic legacy of conflict can be just as deadly as battlefield violence.

From Time

The company did have to pay to plant restoration trees and vegetation elsewhere on the oil field.

From ProPublica

By 2011, surface expressions had broken out there regularly, and CalGEM had cited the company twice for oil field waste, though it wasn’t fined.

From ProPublica

And this week CNPC agreed to buy 10 percent of Vankorneft, a Rosneft subsidiary, which operates the lucrative Vankor oil field.

From The Daily Beast

Consider the painting called “In the High Island Oil Field, February, After the Passage of a Cold Front,” from 1990.

From The Daily Beast

It depicts an exhausted Texas oil field on scrub land, an old railroad bed and a watery ditch converging in the distance.

From The Daily Beast

Accounts emerge from the harrowing Islamist attack on an oil field in the Sahara Desert.

From The Daily Beast

Well, on June 21 the Chinese opened the first major new oil field in Iraq in 20 years.

From The Daily Beast

From what Mr. Littell told us, the oil field promoters would like all the crooks rounded up.

From Project Gutenberg

I went to work doing harvest work, some in oil field in Chickasha, Okla., and done farm work.

From Project Gutenberg

There is a keener mind than mine behind it—and behind this oil field business, as well.

From Project Gutenberg

And they were operating in the Rangely, Colo., oil field, is that correct?

From Project Gutenberg

Colo., it stopped being an operating oil field, and it became a statistical job.

From Project Gutenberg