ship-breaking n.— «Burtynsky has photographed railroads, mines, stone quarries, industrial dumps (or urban mines, as he calls them), oil fields and “ship-breaking,” the laborious process of dismantling enormous tankers...
oilgarchy n.— «But other, less “grand” imperatives are uppermost in the minds of the Bush Oiligarchy, including the coming “Big Rollover” when oil and gas supplies peak and then precipitously decline, estimated to...
ragtown
n.— «Ragtown. Tent town in an oil field.» —“Additional Trade Jargon—Petroleum Industry” in Texas Lexicon of Trade Jargon Feb. 14, 1938. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
bunkering n.— «Going beyond Europe, a recent editorial in our own IHT brought to our attention the word “bunkering,” a “quaint term Nigerians use to describe outright stealing of crude oil by members of the armed forces...
KLPD n.— «I hate a KLPD as much as you do, but heck, nothing worthwhile comes in an instant.…So let us go the systematic route, by listing some more helpful ideas & things before we get oil on our hands.…Whoever says India does not...
duster n.— «These are some of the legendary wildcatters who drilled many a duster and brought in countless great gushers during Oklahoma’s first historic oil boom.» —“Legendary Wildcatters Turned Oil Fever Into...