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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Kevin O'Connor spends four weeks at a time working on an offshore oil rig.
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Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 24 May 2025
But two pieces of legislation focused on improving health, safety and rights of California workers could smooth Wallace’s transition from a process technician operator on an oil rig, to field inspector with Cal-OSHA.
—William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 7 May 2025
That's a body of water on land, and then offshore is all the oil rig deep-sea diving.
—Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 10 May 2025
On a platform in the middle of the sea, the industrial machinery of an oil rig attempts to send out a warning of an impending catastrophe.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 7 May 2025
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Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 24 May 2025
But two pieces of legislation focused on improving health, safety and rights of California workers could smooth Wallace’s transition from a process technician operator on an oil rig, to field inspector with Cal-OSHA.
—William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 7 May 2025
That's a body of water on land, and then offshore is all the oil rig deep-sea diving.
—Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 10 May 2025
On a platform in the middle of the sea, the industrial machinery of an oil rig attempts to send out a warning of an impending catastrophe.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 7 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for oil rig
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“Oil rig.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oil%20rig. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.
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