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noun used as fuel/to make machines work smoothly ADJ. heavy | light | crude | refined | offshore | engine, fuel, heating, lubricating, motor | linseed, paraffin Use a rag soaked in linseed oil. QUANT. barrel | film a rod coated with a film of oil | drop VERB + OIL extract, obtain, produce | drill for The company is drilling for oil in the North Sea. | discover, find, hit, strike | pump | export, import | burn, use | change (in a car, etc.) | soak sth in | smell of The place smelled of paint and oil. OIL + NOUN company, producer | industry, production | drilling, exploration | field, rig, well | drum | tanker | refinery | prices, revenue | slick, spill, spillage a seven-mile-long oil slick off the Scottish coast used in cooking ADJ. cooking | polyunsaturated | rancid | coconut, cod liver, fish, groundnut, olive, sesame, sunflower, vegetable a bottle of extra virgin olive oil | salad VERB + OIL heat | boil sb/sth in, cook sth in, fry sth in | drizzle, pour Toast the bread, rub with garlic and drizzle over a little olive oil. PREP. in ~ Fry the potato in a little sunflower oil.FOOD used as a cosmetic/medicine ADJ. aromatic, fragrant, scented | essential extracting essential oils from flowers | body, hair | baby, bath | aromatherapy, massage | castor, evening primrose, lavender, etc. VERB + OIL massage/rub into, massage/rub sth with She rubbed a scented oil into her hair. | anoint sb/sth with The sick were anointed with oil. | extract PREP. ~ of oil of rosemary
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verbs
discover/find oil
• Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1938. • How does a company go about finding oil and getting it from the ground?
hit/strike oil
(= to find oil when you are digging for it )
• The engineers drilled down a few hundred metres until they hit oil. • The Ohio Oil Company struck oil on May 3rd.
drill for oil
• Plans to drill for oil off the New South Wales coast have recently been revived.
produce oil
(= to have natural areas of oil, and take it out of the ground )
• The US does not produce enough oil to meet its own needs.
extract oil
formal (= to take oil out of an area )
• the difficult process of extracting the oil
adjectives
crude oil
(= oil in its natural state )
• the price of crude oil
refined oil
(= oil that has been treated by an industrial process )
• They had exported refined oil.
offshore oil
(= found under the sea, not far from the coast )
• The company has the technical capabilities to produce offshore oil.
heavy/light oil
• 2,000 barrels of heavy oil are produced a day. • The oil corporation announced the discovery of another field of light oil.
oil + NOUN
oil prices
• The increase in oil prices has prompted warnings of a global recession.
the oil industry
• He works in in the oil industry.
an oil company
• YPF was the state oil company in Argentina.
an oil producer
(= a country which produces oil )
• The Soviet Union is the world's largest oil producer.
an oil refinery
(= a place where oil is treated by an industrial process )
• an oil refinery in Perth
oil production
• a fall in US oil production
an oil spill
(= situation in which oil comes out of a ship or other container into the sea )
• a terrible oil spill near the Shetland Islands
an oil crisis
(= situation in which there is not enough oil, and the price of oil is very high )
• The world is facing an oil crisis.
an oil rig
(= structure on land or in the sea with equipment for getting oil out of the ground )
• an oil rig in the North Sea
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