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oil field

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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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ENERGIES: News BP had to shutter some of its daily production at the Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska stirred the crude oil market last week.
There's so many people now we can't,'' said Don Clarke, chief geologist for the city of Long Beach, whose 70-year-old Wilmington oil field pumped out nearly 16 million barrels last year.
Arco owns about 21 percent of the Prudhoe oil field, the largest oil field in Alaska, and 55 percent of the Kuparuk River oil field, the second largest oil field in Alaska.
 
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