oil producer
collocation in Englishmeaningsofoilandproducer
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oil
noun
uk/ɔɪl/us/ɔɪl/
petroleum (= the black oil obtained from under the earth's surface from which ...
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producer
noun[C]
uk/prəˈdʒuː.sər/us/prəˈduː.sɚ/
a person who makes the practical and financial arrangements needed to make a film, play, or television or ...
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(Definition ofoilandproducerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofoil producer
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One of the reasons given for the long-standing resistance to biofuels is the fact that we are a majoroilproducer.
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Since we have become a significantoilproducer, we have slipped into thinking—it is perhaps understandable — that high oil prices are to our advantage.
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Because it is anoilproducer, it is enjoying a big increase in revenues; but it has been dreadfully run under the military dictatorship.
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We are doing only what every other majoroilproducerhas found it in its interests to do.
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The initiative for these discussions came in each case from theoilproducerconcerned.
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The strength of its economy and its role as anoilproducerremain important to the economic health of the industrialised world.
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That would mean that every little slaughterhouse and every small vegetableoilproducerin the country would have to be taxed.
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If being the fourth producer in the world does not make us a majoroilproducer, it is difficult to see what does.
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That was a mistaken policy for a majoroilproducer.
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We are the fifth largestoilproducerin the world at the moment.
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As an industrialised country and anoilproducer, we shall remain alert to any opportunities there may be.
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After all, they say, we are anoilproducer, so we could sell oil to ourselves on the cheap and have a subsidised oil price.
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A leasing company will not usually be anoilproducer.
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That had not been our intention, but we shall be the tenth largestoilproducerand a very important oil exporter as well.
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We were told that, although we are now the sixth largestoilproducer, two-thirds of the oil is being exported for processing.
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We are anoilproducer, and oil is priced in dollars.
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