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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And Barack Obama visited the city and other parts of Louisiana affected by the most damaging oil spill in American history, brought about by a blowout on the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in 2010.
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Kate Selig, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Photo: The Chinese Room Christmas 1975: an oil rig off the eastern coast of Scotland.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
The Rig - Season 2 (Prime Video) Prime Video’s horror series about an offshore oil rig returns for a second season.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
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
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Kate Selig, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Photo: The Chinese Room Christmas 1975: an oil rig off the eastern coast of Scotland.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
The Rig - Season 2 (Prime Video) Prime Video’s horror series about an offshore oil rig returns for a second season.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
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
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“Oil rig.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oil%20rig. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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