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oil field
(redirected from Oil deposit)

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oil field [′ȯil ‚fēld]
(petroleum engineering)
The surface boundaries of an area from which petroleum is obtained; may correspond to an oil pool or may be circumscribed by political or legal limits.


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Then in January 2006, Hardman Resources, a latecomer to the exploration business, quickly reported the first find of viable oil deposits at Waraga-1 well in Kaiso Tonya.
Early in 1998, a crude oil deposit estimated at more than 500m tons was discovered near the town of Pavlodar.
Possible oil deposits in place there have been estimated unofficially at between 2-5 bn barrels.
 
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