What does oil production mean?

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oil pro·duc·tion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. boring, drilling, oil productionnoun

    the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum

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  1. oil production

    Petroleum is a fossil fuel that can be drawn from beneath the earth's surface. Reservoirs of petroleum was formed through the mixture of plants, algae, and sediments in shallow seas under high pressure. Petroleum is mostly recovered from oil drilling. Seismic surveys and other methods are used to locate oil reservoirs. Oil rigs and oil platforms are used to drill long holes into the earth to create an oil well and extract petroleum. After extraction, oil is refined to make gasoline and other products such as tires and refrigerators. Extraction of petroleum can be dangerous and have led to oil spills.

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  1. oil production

    Oil production refers to the process of extracting and refining crude oil from underground reservoirs. This involves several stages such as exploration, drilling, and extraction, followed by refining and processing into various products like gasoline, diesel, lubricants, and other petroleum products. Oil production is a major global industry, with many countries relying heavily on it for their energy needs.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of oil production in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of oil production in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of oil production in a Sentence

  1. Bijan Namdar Zanganeh:

    We expect the members of OPEC to pave the ground for (an) increase of Iran's oil production that will reach global markets when sanctions are lifted.

  2. Aldemir Bendine:

    The increase in oil production is the company's core, it is what brings in results.

  3. Paul Bloxham:

    We currently assume U.S. tight oil production troughs in the first half of 2017 and recovers thereafter in line with our assumption of improving prices.

  4. Susan Hough:

    Several lines of evidence further suggest that most of the significant earthquakes in Oklahoma during the 20th century may also have been induced by oil production activities, deep injection of waste water, now recognized to potentially induce earthquakes, in fact began in the state in the 1930s.

  5. Ayham Kamel:

    Any oil production disruption would occur at a time when Saudi Arabia has lost a significant part of its energy system redundancies (spare capacity), while Saudi oil production is now close to 9.9 million bpd, it is not clear that the capacity is fully operational at 11.3 million bpd and the (attacked) Abqaiq facility has lost a significant part of its redundancy.


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