oil company
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- noun
- /ɔɪl ˈkʌmpəni/
:
empresa petrolera
- Many residents in the town work for the local oil company that produces crude oil.
- international oil companies
- a major oil company
- foreign oil companies
So you started working at an oil company at one point.
- So you started working at an oil company at one point.
- When the price of oil showed up, the oil companies started earning multimillion dollar profits.
- The country, they say, has resorted to borrowing and selling shares in the state oil company just to fund these projects.
- There is much of it went to the Anglo Persian Oil Company which they actually discovered the oil in the province.
- We sold our federal tax credits to Chevron, the oil company, and then we sold our state tax credit in Oklahoma.
- Like owning, opening your own business, whether it's in fashion or a grocery store or an oil company, whatever.
- And perhaps some oil companies in the past have bought experts to diminish the threat of global warming.
- I mean, just just think about it, You know, the windfall tax, I've been a Conservative government, I put a windfall tax on gas and oil companies.
- It's government socialism for oil companies in the form of green energy.
- I haven't seen them changing demand so the oil companies could care less.
- So I, I took my first, first was an oil company in Portugal.
- I'm kind of interested in oceans, and we were fighting oil companies, and I had a way to go.
- This is the biggest oil company and oil traders in the world who are saying this.
- I'd like just just charge less for gas, like, and maybe as an oil company, you don't profit as much.
Examples
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Motivated by profit, the international oil companies generally seek to maximize return on their investments.
Academic text (1990) -
The oil company announced plans to expand its operations into renewable energy.
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So you started working at an oil company at one point.
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OK, So oil companies are still buying equipment.
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Now, once the oil company has a lease...
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Most of the major oil companies and some of the large independents have a presence here.
Academic text (2011) -
Each of these oil companies drills a test well in the oil fields.
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Aunt Winifred worked for the oil company, which took her out of the house all day.
Fiction book (1995) -
The current situation is too volatile and unpredictable for international oil companies to make large commitments.
Academic text (1993) -
When the price of oil showed up, the oil companies started earning multimillion dollar profits.
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Morphology
The meaning 'a company involved in the production, refining, or distribution of oil' is directly compositional from 'oil' (the substance) and 'company' (an organization). This noun+noun compound pattern is a regular, cross-linguistically common way to form denotative phrases, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The compound oil company comes from a simple picture: a group of people, a company, working with barrels of oil to sell or move it. That's why today it means a firm that produces, processes, or sells 'oil'.