WordNet
n. a company that sells oil
Usage examples of "oil company".
When the Exxon Valdez grounded, he fought the oil company to get compensation for the Natives of Alaska.
He and I worked in Curacao until last year -- I was in narcotics, he was the security officer for a Dutch oil company.
There was definite proof that an oil company had promised Arab states it would deny fuel to the American army.
We are in negotiations now with Atlantic Richfield, the American oil company, for technical support.
In 1909, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) began work on a pipeline to transport the oil from their wells to nearby ports on the Persian Gulf.
The North Hudson Oil Company did, in fact, have supertankers, but the use of them in this case did not serve Lord Worth's purpose.
An oil company looking for a trawler would hardly concern itself with a wreck, and wanting one on the cheap was a relative term.
Had it not been for ice, in the form of icebergs, neither of them would have been in the main salon of Mansour's 1,600-ton yacht Linno to discuss the fate of the Yellow Rose Oil Company.