oil-bearing shale.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

If he is successful, he will strike oil-bearing rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation Reader] Reference

The Borassus, though not an oil-bearing palm, is a useful tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries] Reference

It hauls oil-bearing sand and similar loads--and in huge quantities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hauling Hunks] Reference

Essential oil-bearing plants of India: a review of the monocotyledons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 14] Reference

Its oil-bearing rock is deep underground and much tougher to tap than Ghawar's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saudis Face Hurdle] Reference

Shell Canada strip-mines oil-bearing sands and heats them to remove heavy crude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shell Grasps At Oil Sands] Reference

The real estate markets in Baghdad, Mosul, and the oil-bearing Kurdish regions are booming.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of A Survival Plan] Reference

In his final plea before he was hanged, he asked: "Why should the people on oil-bearing land be tortured?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The (real) price of cheap oil] Reference

Another option would be to open the vast oil-bearing areas in Alaska and Canada for drilling and exploitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

This is an activity of the utmost importance in order to obtain optimum oil-yields from the oil-bearing plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

At Golden Spike only two producing wells have been drilled but in both the oil-bearing zone is in excess of 500 feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Western Oil Flows Eastward] Reference

At the present time the control of oil-bearing land is an important factor in the foreign policy of some governments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Boyd Orr - Nobel Lecture] Reference

At times cynical and depressing, Eclipse is a well-written indictment of the US involvement in oil-bearing countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference

Last year Chevron announced that test wells drilled 29,000 feet deep into Buckskin found oil-bearing sands 300 feet thick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chevron's Undersea Imaging] Reference

But it enough to say that of the country's total surface area of 111,000 square kilometers, 56,000 have oil-bearing strata.    From Wordnik.com.  [TEXT OF CASTRO HAVANA UNIVERSITY SPEECH] Reference

India's arid state of Rajasthan, and the oil-bearing seeds are being used for biodiesel for their new type of cars, Ziegler said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

I presume that the well would have fully penetrated the oil-bearing zone, with the casing set all the way to the bottom of the hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deepwater Well Construction 101 | RedState] Reference

Availability of oil-bearing renewable resources, such as eucalyptus trees, lemon grass, and mint, and the conditions for growing them.    From Wordnik.com.  [47. Tannin produced from pine bark] Reference

Sour milk (rob) substitutes are made from oil-bearing seeds in a manner analogous to the use of soybeans to give dairy product analogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [1 Upgrading Traditional Biotechnological Processes] Reference

To obtain some data of the flow of liquids under pressure through certain oil-bearing stones, series of tests on small pieces were made.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885] Reference

It is a chart showing exceptionally rich oil-bearing rock of high porosity and good permeability at a depth of thirteen thousand feet. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slay Ride]

Rural or small-town communities with available supplies of oil-bearing plants or trees, such as eucalyptus or lemon grass, and the right conditions for growing them.    From Wordnik.com.  [47. Tannin produced from pine bark] Reference

Below 1,000 meters (m) the common tree species include Sterculia foetida and Calophyllum teysmannii (both of which produce oil-bearing seeds) and Aleurites moluccana.    From Wordnik.com.  [Timor and Wetar deciduous forests] Reference

John Nichols named the company not for the Devonian period, when oil-bearing strata were deposited, but for a view of Devonshire hanging in his London barrister's office.    From Wordnik.com.  [Former Accountant Worked to Build] Reference

However, because they -- (inaudible) -- is used for political speculation, naturally Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, that are oil-bearing states, are actively seeking alternative ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presidents Remarks In Signing With President Nazarbayev] Reference

The well encountered a gross oil-bearing interval of approximately.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

Archipelago and contain sedimentary rocks that may have oil-bearing strata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Search: canada] Reference

Fears of Arctic oil rush as 'oil-bearing sand' discovered off the coast of Greenland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

NR-2 was drilled to a total depth of 11,700 feet and struck 113 feet of oil-bearing sands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

Drilling below 2,055 m MD has encountered additional minor oil-bearing layers in the Lower Jurassic.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

A glance at the Birdbear, an oil-bearing formation geologists say could expand horizontal drilling in North.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Canadians, business travelers help ND tourism grow] Reference

Andrews sits atop the Permian Basin, a vast bowl of oil-bearing rocks deposited over 250 million years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Texas Observer: In the Current Issue] Reference

A glance at the Birdbear, an oil-bearing formation geologists say could expand horizontal drilling in North Dakota.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

The same varieties of the cabbage do not yield abundant and nutritious foliage and a copious supply of oil-bearing seeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)] Reference

Company identifies an oil-bearing interval in the Aptian section of the OGX-5 well with approximately 20 meters of net pay.    From Wordnik.com.  [FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten] Reference

The Kingfisher-3A appraisal well has a gross oil-bearing interval of approximately 90 metres, with approximately 22 metres of net oil pay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference