Synonyms for oilfield
oil·field

Princeton's WordNet

1. oilfieldnoun

   a region rich in petroleum deposits (especially one with producing oil wells)

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1. Rob Thummel:

   Even if DUCs come online, U.S. production will continue to fall, and until output stops declining, it's going to be a challenging market for oilfield service companies, the number of new wells drilled in the United States has halved from 40,000, and the addition of a thousand or two thousand wells will not do much to arrest steep declines in shale production.

2. Paal Kibsgaard:

   The likely timing gap between the oil price recovery and the subsequent increase in oilfield services activity in combination with a more conservative spending outlook from our customers is causing us to now take further action.

3. Chief Executive Marc Edwards:

   Some of the larger diversified oilfield service providers have declared a bottom in activity and are suggesting that a recovery is imminent, while this may be the case for certain onshore basins, it is not so for deepwater drilling.

4. Tamas Varga:

   The Libyan and Iraqi oilfield skirmishes are worrying, there are serious supply issues there.

5. Mark Hagerott:

   If you can master oilfield technology, I think you can master any number of other fields.