Sentences with phrase «oil town»

Note the presence of oil towns on these lists.
Great returns are possible without the added volatility of a boom - bust oil town or fancy & complex strategies like «sandwich leases».
The venture was a rapid success, and when McConaughey was 10 years old, the family relocated to the booming East Texas oil town of Longview.
Confronting Cancer at an Early Age Allison grew up in the small oil town of Alice, Texas, the youngest of three brothers.
Starring Tessa Thompson and Lily James as sisters living in a North Dakota oil town which happens to be the further point on a map where a woman can obtain an abortion.
His white Chaparrals — built in the remote oil town of Midland, Texas, with covert support from General Motors R&D and tested on Hall's private Rattlesnake Raceway — were the most inventive road - racing cars of the»60s.
There are rigs scattered through the farmland around Ada, an old oil town of sixteen thousand with a college and a county courthouse.
No ferry goes there anymore, so I flew into Yuzhno - Sakhalinsk, a busy oil town in the south of the island, and took an overnight train midway up the island to Tymovskoe, where a couple daily buses reach Aleksandrovsk.
He ended his pep talk with a sentiment not lost on those in this well - heeled oil town: «Go out and spend money!»
The photograph is one of 500 made in a tiny Texas oil town.
A loner with a love of cars, Tripp (Lucas Till) desperately desires adventure that he fears his small oil town can't offer.
Once very affordable, many North Dakota oil towns, such as Williston, are facing some of the highest rent rates in the nation.
The agricultural and oil town of 11,000 is about an hour's journey south of the TransCanada and its biggest claim to fame is that it is home to the largest inland grain gathering point in Canada.
Despite transforming long ago into an oil town and bustling business centre of Western Canada, the city of Calgary has clung actively to its cowboy roots.
In Harjo's mystical vision, from the oil towns of Oklahoma to the Indian boarding school in Santa Fe, «every soul has a distinct song.»
Salaries in the oil towns can start at six figures and we found a healthy range of median incomes for the cities in our study.
[8][9] An economic boom accompanied the development of the Summerland field, which transformed the spiritualist community of Summerland into an oil town in just a few years.
The oil town of Sorong at the western tip of West Papua is the main airport for the Raja Ampat Islands to the west.
Alpine really isn't an oil town.
Some of the group went up to Lago another oil town on the border with Colombia and what they found fascinating there was the sub footprint of the oil industry.
What they don't think of is what's happening lower down the food chain, the destruction, and the impact on people, the Wild West that goes on in these oil towns.
But no one did either in the mid 80s when Denver was an oil town and oil went bust.
I didn't read all of this but yes I have had investors call me from these oil towns and they are talking about 4.5 % caps etc. trying to buy stuff there and it just isn't working.
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