How to Use oil well in a Sentence

oil well

noun
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  • This year, the field has nine of the 10 most productive oil wells in the state, Marushack told the group.
    — Alex Demarban, Alaska Dispatch News, 14 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • An oil well in the Nowruz Oil Field in Iran begins spilling oil.
    — CNN, 20 Feb. 2022
  • How many more oil wells put next to schools and churches?
    — Iris Fen Gillingham, Teen Vogue, 19 July 2018
  • At the same time, though, the number of idled oil wells is rising in the country.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 5 June 2023
  • While most wells in the area seek natural gas, Hopewell plans to drill oil wells.
    — Sergio Chapa, Houston Chronicle, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The Choctaw County town of Gilberton was the site of the first oil well drilled in Alabama.
    — Kelly Kazek | Kkazek@al.com, al, 19 Aug. 2020
  • There are a few oil wells in her county that sit near a water source.
    — Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • In no time, the number of oil wells on the million-acre reservation swelled to more than 1,000.
    — Christa Hillstrom, Marie Claire, 22 Sep. 2015
  • The shallow hole is not much of an oil well by today’s standards.
    — Claudia Capos, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The first productive oil well in the United States had been drilled less than a decade before, in 1858.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 25 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • Fracturing the rock creates pathways for the oil to drain into the oil well.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 25 Apr. 2017
  • Pump jacks extract crude oil from oil wells in Midland, Texas.
    — Dan Molinski and Sarah McFarlane, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
  • In 1921, the first oil well was drilled, and within a decade, more than a million barrels was produced.
    — John MacCormack, ExpressNews.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • An oil well is just an asset, but a football team is a story.
    — Elif Batuman, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
  • At one point Signal Hill was covered with a forest of oil wells.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • That deal, the Chandler Lake Land Exchange, also led to the only oil well ever drilled in that refuge.
    — Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Jan. 2018
  • The lower delta is riddled with hundreds of active oil wells.
    — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 26 Feb. 2018
  • There have been no reports from tankers or oil wells about potential spills.
    — Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Anson has been using old oil wells to to explore the amount of lithium in brine, a salty liquid, deep beneath the ground.
    — Associated Press, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Last Friday and Saturday, the South turned off the spigot, shutting down 900 oil wells.
    — Andrew Natsios, Foreign Affairs, 1 Feb. 2012
  • Most of the questions involved Pruitt’s campaign to put oil wells and open-pit mines on every half-acre of public land.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 30 Jan. 2018
  • The vast majority of the thousands of oil wells that pepper the lake stand broken and useless.
    — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • In the past year, the EPA has approved new rules for cars, heavy-duty trucks, new coal- and gas-fired power plants and methane-leaking oil wells.
    — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
  • Bangladeshis serve as badly paid crews on oceangoing cargo ships, clean up oil wells in Kuwait and drive taxis in New York.
    — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Oklahoma’s oil industry pays into a voluntary fund to clean up oil wells, but many drillers opt out.
    — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 6 Aug. 2024

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