oil patch
Drilling industry zone
The oil patch is the petroleum industry, especially the regions where oil is extracted.
The term evokes roughneck culture and boomtown economics of places like Texas, Oklahoma, and Alberta: He spent thirty years working in the oil patch.
It can refer to the physical territory, the industry as a whole, or the people who work in it.
- oilwellDrilled petroleum extraction site
- offshoreAway from land
- petroleumNatural underground hydrocarbon liquid
- black goldSlang for petroleum
- boomtownRapidly growing community
boom and bust · derrick · pump jack · drilling · energy sector · natural resources · fracking · oilfield · roughneck · wildcatter · rigger · exploration · Badlands · geologist · hazardous · seismic · ghost town · North Dakota
- oil industrypetroleum, crude, drilling, drilling rig, refineries
- oil sandstar sands, bitumen, Athabasca, upgraders, surface mining
- patchesmerit badges, merit badge, applique
oil patchSilicon Valley
Bay Area tech corridor
tech corridor · rust belt · farm belt · Wall Street · college town
oil, patch, oils, oiled, oiling, oily, oilier, oiliest, oiliness