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Definition of Oil industry

1. Noun. An industry that produces and delivers oil and oil products.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oil Industry

Literary usage of Oil industry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin by Public Affairs Information Service (1920)
"See Vegetable oil industry Oils and fats Animal oils, tallow and grease in 1919. In Oil. ... See also Cocoanut oil; Cottonseed oil Industry; Essential oils; ..."

2. Helping Your Child Get Ready for School: With Activities for Children from by Nancy Paulu (1993)
"Congress and the states need to look at options to help the oil industry, including: • The Strategic Petroleum Reserve should ..."

3. The American Petroleum Industry by Raymond Foss Bacon, William Allen Hamor (1916)
"THE SCOTTISH SHALE-oil industry' James Young, of Kelly, Scotland, was the first to produce oil from bituminous minerals on a commercial scale in Scotland, ..."

4. Competitive Change in the Electric Power Industry: The Oklahoma Perspective edited by Don Nickles (1999)
"^#ny is electricity such a serious component to Oklahoma's oil industry? Let's provide a quick profile of the oil industry that exists in 1997 in our state. ..."

5. State of the Petroleum Industry: Congressional Hearing edited by Frank H. Murkowski (2000)
"Congress and the states need to look at options to help the oil industry, including: » The Interior Department should give blanket lease term extensions on ..."

6. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1907)
"Development of the oil industry. — The chief obstacle to the development of the oil trade in its early years was the difficulty of transportation. ..."

7. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1914)
"Development of the oil industry. — The chief obstacle to the development of the oil trade in its early years was the difficulty of transportation. ..."

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