Sentence examples for main oil fields from inspiring English sources

Petroleum resources are found in the southern and northwestern parts of the state; the main oil fields have been developed between Shreveport and Monroe.

In Bahrain, it resorted to force, sending troops to crush a rebellion by Shiites because it feared the creation of a hostile government — a kind of Shiite Cuba — only about 20 miles from some of its main oil fields, one sympathetic to Iran, if not allied with it.

Many of the world's main oil fields are being exhausted, and so there is a continuous search for new sources.

IS only has one major oil refinery under its control, and it is located nearly 340 miles from its main oil fields.

Nuer employees from two of South Sudan's main oil fields attacked their Dinka colleagues on Wednesday, resulting in 16 deaths, according to the acting Unity state governor.

Small protests continued and reached a main oil field in Hayma.

WHEN an oil company's chief executive has to abandon his headquarters to take direct charge of the firm's main oil field, something is clearly amiss.

A high-ranking Western diplomat in Yemen would hotly dispute that claim, telling me that Saleh controlled "all the main roads, oil fields, and pipelines," which, I countered, was less than 50percentt of the country.

There are conflicting reports over who holds the main northeastern oil fields around the town of Rmeilan, though in late January a video appeared online purporting to show members of the P.Y.D.'s militia patrolling the smaller Gir Ziro field nearby.

It needs Arctic production to offset the decline in its main west Siberian oil fields.

ChevronTexaco will sell stakes in the Kutubu, Moran, Gobe Main and South East Gobe oil fields as well as resign as operator, the company said.