oil platform
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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Offshore workers examine hydrocarbon samples aboard the Chevron Corp. Jack/St. Malo deepwater oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, U.S., on Friday, May 18, 2018.
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Natasha Turak, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2024
Staying on the Frying Pan Originally intended to house a crew of 17 Coast Guard personnel, Frying Pan looks like an oil platform.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 11 Sep. 2024
The museum features interactive exhibits for kids, including a rescue slide, life raft, and a mini oil platform.
—David Nikel, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
Big dollars at stake Oil company BP agreed to pay $4 billion in penalties to settle criminal charges, including felony manslaughter charges, related to the explosion and oil spill at its Deepwater Horizon oil platform in 2010.
—Chris Isidore, CNN, 29 June 2024
Such errors can be expensive: the 1991 collapse of the Norwegian oil platform mentioned earlier caused damages amounting to more than $1.6 billion in today’s dollars.
—Manil Suri, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
After the Deepwater Horizon oil platform blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, for example, the Democratic political strategist James Carville grew frustrated.
—Joe Klein, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2017
Even so, error estimation, had it been used, almost certainly would have alerted engineers about the problem with their FE model for the Norwegian oil platform.
—Manil Suri, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
What a bigger budget gave us, in the last seasons of Money Heist, was being able to put our characters on an oil platform, or to make a meteor shower.
—Josef Adalian, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024
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Natasha Turak, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2024
Staying on the Frying Pan Originally intended to house a crew of 17 Coast Guard personnel, Frying Pan looks like an oil platform.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 11 Sep. 2024
The museum features interactive exhibits for kids, including a rescue slide, life raft, and a mini oil platform.
—David Nikel, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
Big dollars at stake Oil company BP agreed to pay $4 billion in penalties to settle criminal charges, including felony manslaughter charges, related to the explosion and oil spill at its Deepwater Horizon oil platform in 2010.
—Chris Isidore, CNN, 29 June 2024
Such errors can be expensive: the 1991 collapse of the Norwegian oil platform mentioned earlier caused damages amounting to more than $1.6 billion in today’s dollars.
—Manil Suri, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
After the Deepwater Horizon oil platform blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, for example, the Democratic political strategist James Carville grew frustrated.
—Joe Klein, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2017
Even so, error estimation, had it been used, almost certainly would have alerted engineers about the problem with their FE model for the Norwegian oil platform.
—Manil Suri, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
What a bigger budget gave us, in the last seasons of Money Heist, was being able to put our characters on an oil platform, or to make a meteor shower.
—Josef Adalian, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024
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“Oil platform.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oil%20platform. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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