Sentence examples for captured oil from inspiring English sources

For some rebel units, captured oil could pay for weapons.

The captured oil was being brought to the surface for processing.

With their bigger guns, heavier armour and a monopoly on air power, they have captured oil facilities at Ras Lanuf and Brega, and seized a strategic road junction at Ajdabiya.

The vents were intended to let some oil out in order to keep cold Gulf water from rushing in and forming icy hydrates that could block the flow of captured oil to the surface.

It's also the case that no one appears to want to hold to account those who have allowed Isis to sell its captured oil, as long as this fits into this anti-Assad/anti-Russian agenda.

The process, which came to be known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, jostled loose the captured oil or gas molecules, but the technology had a fatal flaw: it was too costly to turn a profit in shale.

California voters elected Dianne Feinstein to the U.S. Senate five times, but she never captured oil-rich Kern County, where her father grew up.

Over the last week, ISIS fighters have captured oil-rich Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, and seized Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown.

It's hard enough to try to capture oil floating in an ocean.

On a table shaped vaguely like a human being, hollowed slightly to capture oil, my spine was a cobra unfurling.

The more immediate plan is to replace the cap and bring in additional vessels to capture oil.