Sentence examples for oil region from inspiring English sources

(a) Have any restrictions been placed on movement in and out of the oil region?

"It is right in the heart of the oil region," she said.

Amnesty International reported last year that civilians in the oil region had suffered violent abuses.

There was no similar increase in rates of violent crime in the counties surrounding the Bakken oil region.

Nigeria is Africa's biggest crude producer, but much of the Niger Delta oil region remains deeply impoverished.

Kurdish leaders who entered the northern oil region near Kirkuk with American soldiers have predicted the same.

In reality, it has been primarily driven by strategic interests in the world's most important oil region.

Police in the oil region around Basra have found weapons that were meant to be used to attack foreign companies.

Many of these new local groups, both formal and informal, are located in the south in and around the oil region.

But its ability to start a regular flow of oil for export is hampered by security problems in its southern oil region, particularly the vast Rumaila fields.

Crude oil also surged past $68 a barrel on concerns about the standoff over Iran's nuclear program and threats to Nigeria's main oil region.