oilpatch

oilpatch

English

Etymology

oil +‎ patch

Noun

oilpatch (plural oilpatches)

1. (informal) The oil and gas industry.
   • 1959, The Billboard, 16 Nov 1959, page 50

     "Texas Oil Patch Songs": [...] Willet [...] sings a dozen of his own songs having to do with oil workers [...]

   • 2005, Martin S. Raymond, William L. Leffler, Oil & Gas Production in Nontechnical Language

     Fracturing the formation in the lingo of the oil patch is to perform a frac job.

   • 2008, Edmonton Sun, February 26, 2008

     "Alberta won't plug oilpatch"

Alternative forms

• oil patch
• oil-patch

Translations

oil-and-gas industry

Russian: нефтяная (neftjanaja) промы́шленность (promýšlennostʹ) (neftjanája promýšlennostʼ) f, нефтепро́м m (neftepróm)