Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
oil-bearing
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Production of other crops also rose substantially - the important oil-bearing crops saw a rise of 13.8 percent during this period.
▪ Reaching these wells will involve linking the drill to sophisticated sensing devices which can detect oil-bearing formations.
▪ The major sources of pollution were oil spills, discharges from refineries and natural seepage from oil-bearing strata.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
oil-bearing
oil-bearing \oil-bearing\ adj. containing oils; -- of geological formations; as, oil-bearing shale.
WordNet
oil-bearing
adj. containing oils; "oil-bearing shale"
Usage examples of "oil-bearing".
He believed that the proved oil-bearing country that runs down from Iraq through Kuwait, Dahran, Bahrain and Qattar would be found to continue, swinging south-east along the line of the Jebel mountains, through Buraimi and into the independent sheikhdom of Saraifa.