How to Use oil rig in a Sentence

oil rig

noun

• The front of the boat was tied to an oil rig, but the waves worsened, crashing aboard the boat.
  — Christina Zdanowicz, CNN, 15 Oct. 2022
• So, the shot required an oil pump as well as a derrick oil rig.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 21 Oct. 2023
• What works on an oil rig will not work in a hospital or on a truck.
  — Jason Andersen, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
• There’s also a mention of a North Sea oil rig, fjords and through-the-exit movie.
  — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2023
• 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
• An oil rig in Alabama has caught fire on the east side of the Mobile River.
  — C Mandler, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2023
• His job was pumping out the water and wastewater from the trailer homes set up for the oil rig workers.
  — Mckenzie Andersen, oregonlive, 24 July 2023
• The drones filmed inside the cooling tower of a coal power plant, as well as above an oil rig out at sea.
  — George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• The daily cost of renting an oil rig, for example, fell by half.
  — David G. Victor, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2017
• Does a roughneck working on an oil rig need to be instructed to wear steel-toe boots?
  — WSJ, 7 Mar. 2023
• Many of these borrow from oil rig designs for offshore drilling.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 May 2023
• Vigil has shades of Amazon’s The Rig, which aired first season from an oil rig and the second from an Arctic glacier.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 19 Feb. 2025
• The podcast was hosted by Christian Wallace who grew up in West Texas, worked on an oil rig, and got a front row seat to the oil boom and bust in the region.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2024
• And along those highways came the farmers and Okies and oil rig roughnecks who would forever shape the culture and landscape of the San Joaquin Valley.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• There's a new and super-annoying one for this season, an oil rig worker called Miles Dale (Toby Kebbell).
  — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2023
• Soon after it was built, the grab was used by the global salvage firm Ardent to clear wreckage from the Troll Solution, a jack-up offshore oil rig that collapsed in 2015.
  — Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 23 Apr. 2024
• According to Google, interest in oil rig jobs is having a moment.
  — Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024
• The relationship sharply worsened again in 2014 after Beijing moved an oil rig in waters claimed by Vietnam.
  — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• 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
• Martin hails from Logansport, La., and worked on an oil rig before pivoting to music.
  — Xander Zellner, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2024
• In Carlsbad, New Mexico, there was an oil rig manager who had trouble paying his bills.
  — ABC News, 15 Nov. 2022
• In Season 1 the cast were on an oil rig, stationed off the Scottish coast, which was enveloped in a mysterious fog that cut off all lines of communication.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2024
• Already isolated, the crew of the oil rig Kinloch Bravo finds their problems compounded when a thick, ominous fog envelops the vessel.
  — Keith Phipps, Rolling Stone, 2 Jan. 2023
• Bess takes a bold step by marrying Jan, an uninhibited outsider who works on an offshore oil rig.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2024
• In 2021 vessels from Indonesia and China shadowed each other for months near a submersible oil rig that had been performing well appraisals in the Tuna block.
  — Reuters, CNN, 15 Jan. 2023
• Most work boots have some sort of slip-resistance inherently because of the design of the sole, but certain jobs or job sites—like an oil rig—might require even more slip resistant shoes.
  — Danny Perez, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2023
• Workers on a remote Scottish oil rig are trapped when a mysterious and supernatural fog rolls in.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
• Imagine an oil rig that detects safety threats in real time, a factory that predicts downtime at a fraction of the cost, or a wind farm that maximizes output across every turbine.
  — Amir Husain, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
• Ali Khalifa, an oil rig worker from Zawiya, west of Tripoli, said his cousin and a group of other men from his neighborhood joined a convoy of vehicles heading to Derna to help out with relief efforts.
  — Time, 17 Sep. 2023
• The agency also recently selected Deniz Burnham, who has experience as a field engineer on a remote oil rig, to train for the astronaut corps.
  — Brendan Byrne, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2023