oil rig
noun
: a structure above an oil well on land or in the sea that has special equipment attached to it for drilling and removing oil from the ground
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The petroleum jelly brand was formulated by a young chemist, Robert Chesebrough, who observed oil rig workers use the gooey residue to treat cuts and burns in 1870.
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Kian Bakhtiari, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Ah, reminiscences of days working on an oil rig gone by!
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 15 May 2026
NewSubstance utilizes over 20 years of experience to forge public art from a variety of immense canvases including a North Sea oil rig, Baku’s Olympic Stadium in Azerbaijan, and even the night sky above the Secret Garden Party in Cambridge, England.
—Niyaz Pirani, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
Skarsgård plays her husband, Jan, who works on an oil rig and is paralyzed in an industrial accident.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
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Kian Bakhtiari, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Ah, reminiscences of days working on an oil rig gone by!
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 15 May 2026
NewSubstance utilizes over 20 years of experience to forge public art from a variety of immense canvases including a North Sea oil rig, Baku’s Olympic Stadium in Azerbaijan, and even the night sky above the Secret Garden Party in Cambridge, England.
—Niyaz Pirani, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
Skarsgård plays her husband, Jan, who works on an oil rig and is paralyzed in an industrial accident.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
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“Oil rig.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oil%20rig. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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