oil well
Noun
Meaning
a well that yields or has yielded oil
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Alice Toklas' father had almost once had an oil well they dug and dug but naturally the oil did not gush, naturally not these things never do happen to any one one knows, if it could happen to them you would not be very likely to know them most naturally not.
Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.
The ideal country in a flat world is the one with no natural resources, because countries with no natural resources tend to dig inside themselves. They try to tap the energy, entrepreneurship, creativity, and intelligence of their own people-men and women-rather than drill an oil well.
Although the oil well was drilled as deep as 259 metres (850 feet), no oil was found in the well.
An oil well in Belize.
Although the smoke plume was from a single source, and larger in size than the individual oil well fire plumes in Kuwait 1991, the Buncefield smoke cloud remained out of the stratosphere.