WordNet
offshore rig
n. drilling rig consisting of an offshore platform (floating or fixed to the sea bed) from which many oil wells can be bored radially [syn: drilling platform]
Usage examples of "offshore rig".
Sucking on oxygen bottles as they made their descent, they had floated around near the target before directing their parachutes in arcing corkscrews until they lined up above the helicopter pad on the offshore rig.
Last year a Soviet ship sailed to within a hundred feet of an offshore rig in the North Sea and began taking photographs, and the Navy sent a destroyer out there to warn it off.
He was also charged with relaying the medical data from the surgery to the offshore rig, a complex procedure if they were to keep it from Maas.