How to Use oil well in a Sentence

oil well

noun

• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• Most recently, as coalition troops have closed in on their last Iraqi holdings in Mosul, the jihadists torched dozens of oil wells at Qayyarah, to the south of the city.
  — Peter Schwartzstein, Foreign Affairs, 7 Apr. 2017

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024