WordNet
oil business
n. an industry that produces and delivers oil and oil products [syn: oil industry, refining industry]
Usage examples of "oil business".
The hemp drying oil business went principally to DuPont petrochemicals.
Now tell me why you are going to Lobynia and what the oil business is like.
Although Cartland had more than a peripheral interest in oil-he did, after all, require some form of fuel for his ships, tanks and planes - he was not along because of any special expertise in the oil business.
You security people thought you were in the oil business, not at war.
And the oil business paid the best, and in Texas, like everyplace else, talent went where the money was.
If there are any rules or ethics in the oil business I have as yet to detect any.