Sentence examples for something oil from inspiring English sources

In the old economy, energy was produced by burning something — oil, coal, or natural gas — leading to the carbon emissions that have come to define our economy.

An engineering firm just offered him £45,000-a-year and paid his relocation costs so he could do "something oil" up in Aberdeen.

Their not-subtle point: Mining operations at the Marcellus are just too big for DEP regulators to regulate effectively, and this is something oil companies understand.

Cleaning up dilbit spills is something oil companies haven't had much experience with a fact that was made embarrassingly apparent when Exxon Mobil was caught trying to clean up its dilbit spill in Arkansas with pieces of paper towel.

The likelihood of an accident is something oil companies concede ― when the Keystone XL pipeline was proposed in 2011, the pipeline company estimated that there would be a likelihood of 11 significant spills (over 50 barrels) over its 50-year lifetime.

In his book, he hints at the possibility that the US government was behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks because Bush knew the Bin Ladens, and something-something oil, yeah?

There is something about oil production that fosters baroque corruption.

"The river was also burning, because the German bombings had destroyed something carrying oil.

The Clinton administration is under increasing pressure to do something about oil prices.

But a little down the page was something else — oil company earnings reports.

"I am old-fashioned enough to believe that you can still say something with oil paint that you can't with photography or film".