Oil-well synonyms

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oil-rig
A rig, consisting of platform and machinery, used to drill for oil and other petroleum products like natural gas.
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oilfield
Alternative spelling of oil field.
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oiler
A tanker for carrying oil, esp. one used to refuel other ships
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wildcat
To drill for oil in an area where no oil has been found before
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gusher
One that gushes, especially an abundantly flowing gas or oil well.
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Oil-well Sentence Examples

  • The first oil well in the state was drilled at Limestone in Cattaraugus county in 1865, and the state's output of oil was 1,160,128 barrels, valued at $2,071,533 in 1908.

  • Petroleum was discovered on Little Rennick's Creek, near Burkesville, in Cumberland county, in 1829, when a flowing oil well (the " American well," whose product was sold as " American oil " to heal rheumatism, burns, &c.) was struck by men boring for a "salt well," and after a second discovery in the 'sixties at the mouth of Crocus Creek a small but steady amount of oil was got each year.

  • When an oil well was tapped out, a new one was drilled.

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