"oilpatch" meaning in English

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          "text": "\"Texas Oil Patch Songs\": [...] Willet [...] sings a dozen of his own songs having to do with oil workers [...]",
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          "text": "Fracturing the formation in the lingo of the oil patch is to perform a frac job.",
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          "text": "\"Alberta won't plug oilpatch\"",
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