What is "oil rigs"

Usage examples of "oil rigs".

The walls were lined with photographs - photographs of oil rigs, drilling crews, oil fires, a panorama of snow-covered mountains, horses, cattle, cowhands, chuck wagon races, cattle shows.

Soon we'll be ringed by oil rigs, fenced in like a lot of puir peerie sheep.

The Iranian oil rigs in the Caspian Sea are mostly semi submersible platforms.

Tall derricks and cranes similar to those on the Glomar extended off the deck like waterborne oil rigs.

This university, built on old oil rigs and dredged land, is ruthlessly product-orientated.

The islands were visible, hovering offshore, the channel dotted with oil rigs that sparkled with light.

It's worrisome, but true, that the oil rigs have taken on an eerie beauty of their own, as natural to the eye now as orbiting satellites.

And I learned that, among many other skills, Caleb was a welder, that he plied that trade on offshore oil rigs when his family's myriad other enterprises weren't bringing in enough cash.

Though they assured him that it would be 'interesting and well paid,' he was then earning very good money on North Sea oil rigs, and was not tempted.