What is "oilpatch"

Usage examples of "oilpatch".

He probably did want to see her for some reason which bore on his mission (although how the oilpatch could have anything to do with too many horses on the Drop she did not know), but there was something between them now, something sweet and dangerous.

There was a network of interconnected pipes under the oilpatch, most filled with natural gas that had leaked in through an­cient, decaying seals.

Now the oilpatch flared like a birthday cake, and the heat baking toward them was enormous.

From the blazing Citgo oilpatch a great red-orange fireball rose lazily into the black of night, faded, disappeared.