increased oil production
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aumento de la producción de petróleo
- The President tried to take credit for increased oil production, yet the amazing "shale revolution" has occurred largely on private lands (like the Bakken play of North Dakota) — not on public, government-controlled lands.
Examples
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We have increased oil production to the highest levels in 16 years.
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Saudi Arabia this week said it was ready to increase oil production if warranted by demand.
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We are out talking and visiting all these oil sheiks, and we are trying to get them to increase oil production.
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The Saudis have agreed to increase oil production, as long as we buy it from them, not the Russians.
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In the case of oil or any other substance like that, no matter how much money you throw at it, you're never going to be able to increase oil production above where it was at peak.
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In that case, reactions to earlier price hikes would most likely have been repeated: energy conservation and increased oil production in (more expensive) non-OPEC quarters.
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The system of net backing, in which oil was sold to the refineries before a price was fixed, resulted in large-scale dumping of stored oil and increased oil production.
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For starters, much of the increased oil production has come from the exploitation of previously unreachable stores of shale oil in the Bakken formation underlying Montana and North Dakota.
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As Michael Stoff has observed, the need to increase oil production in the Persian Gulf after 1945 "followed with greater compulsion from expanding conceptions of national security, conceptions that encompassed the reconstruction of Western Europe and the maintenance of stability in the Middle East.
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Saudi Arabia announced that it plans to increase oil production to meet the growing global demand.
How Much
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Surface Forms
Morphology
increased + oil + production
The meaning 'a rise in the amount of oil produced' is directly and compositionally derived from the parts: 'increased' (made greater) modifying 'oil production' (the output of oil). This adjective + noun+noun pattern is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will understand the phrase.
Etymology
The phrase increased oil production comes from the simple image of pumping more oil out of the ground. Here increased means more, oil is the fuel, and production is the act of getting it, so it means 'a rise in the amount of oil taken from the ground'.