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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
oil rig
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Balder is a semi-submersible crane barge designed for work in constructing oil rig platforms.
▪ Francis McFarlane, 44, has not worked since he witnessed the oil rig blaze which killed 164 workers in July 1988.
▪ It is rumoured that an oil rig is to be set up on the local water meadows.
▪ Joseph Oncale charges that his male supervisors and a male co-worker harassed him while he was working at a Louisiana oil rig.
▪ Passing an oil rig and numerous naval vessels, we moored alongside a jetty on the estuary leading up to the town.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
oil rig

oil rig \oil" rig`\, oilrig \oil"rig`\n. A structure and associated machinery used in drilling for oil or gas; it is usually in the form of a tower. Called also drilling rig.

Syn: drill rig, drilling rig, oil rig.

Wiktionary
oil rig

alt. A rig, consisting of platform and machinery, used to drill for oil and other petroleum products like natural gas. n. A rig, consisting of platform and machinery, used to drill for oil and other petroleum products like natural gas.

WordNet
oil rig

n. rig used in drilling for oil or gas [syn: drill rig, drilling rig, oilrig]

Wikipedia
Oil rig

Oil rig may refer to

  • Drilling rig, an apparatus for on-land oil drilling
  • Oil platform, an apparatus for offshore oil drilling

OIL RIG or OILRIG may refer to:

  • a mnemonic for differentiating the reactions of oxidizing agents: Oxidation Is Loss, Reduction Is Gain (of electrons)

Usage examples of "oil rig".

A little silver tobacco jar carried the outline of an oil rig on the lid and inside the inscription: To Stuart Campbell from the Management of the Excelsior Oil Company of Turner Valley on his leaving to form his own company - April 8, 1912.

He serviced engines and deck gear, and as luck would have it one of the boats he was working on at the moment was an oil rig supply vessel in for emergency replacement of a fractured prop shaft.

In addition to abundant food, drink, films, TV and a high class bordello, it offered every amenity off duty oil rig men could ever have wished for.

The oil boys I've talked to all say that's nonsense, that uneducated desert Arabs couldn't possibly operate an oil rig.

The Harpooner's team had been able to get copies of the oil rig blueprints.

As Cheyenne approached closer to the abandoned oil rig, Mack got more photographs of the oil platform.

Aged twenty-seven, with a wife, Jenny, and two kiddies in a tenement block in the Gorbals back in Glasgow, he'd always known the work on this exploratory oil rig was going to be hard and dirty and dangerous, even before Scotland started bloody blowing up.

Inside, lying on the floor, are the bodies of the victims who died aboard the oil rig.

The dark oil rig, about fifty yards from the hut, stood misted and indistinct.

No wonder the air on the Discovery Oil rig was redolent with sulphur.

Small though they might be, most were big enough to smash and sink the biggest ship afloat or uproot the sturdiest pedestal oil rig like a weed.