How to Use oil rig in a Sentence

oil rig

noun

• The front of the boat was tied to an oil rig, but the waves worsened, crashing aboard the boat.
  — Christina Zdanowicz, CNN, 15 Oct. 2022
• So, the shot required an oil pump as well as a derrick oil rig.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 21 Oct. 2023
• There’s also a mention of a North Sea oil rig, fjords and through-the-exit movie.
  — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2023
• An oil rig in Alabama has caught fire on the east side of the Mobile River.
  — C Mandler, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2023
• His job was pumping out the water and wastewater from the trailer homes set up for the oil rig workers.
  — Mckenzie Andersen, oregonlive, 24 July 2023
• Does a roughneck working on an oil rig need to be instructed to wear steel-toe boots?
  — WSJ, 7 Mar. 2023
• Many of these borrow from oil rig designs for offshore drilling.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 May 2023
• And along those highways came the farmers and Okies and oil rig roughnecks who would forever shape the culture and landscape of the San Joaquin Valley.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• There's a new and super-annoying one for this season, an oil rig worker called Miles Dale (Toby Kebbell).
  — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2023
• Soon after it was built, the grab was used by the global salvage firm Ardent to clear wreckage from the Troll Solution, a jack-up offshore oil rig that collapsed in 2015.
  — Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 23 Apr. 2024
• According to Google, interest in oil rig jobs is having a moment.
  — Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024
• The relationship sharply worsened again in 2014 after Beijing moved an oil rig in waters claimed by Vietnam.
  — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• Martin hails from Logansport, La., and worked on an oil rig before pivoting to music.
  — Xander Zellner, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2024
• In Carlsbad, New Mexico, there was an oil rig manager who had trouble paying his bills.
  — ABC News, 15 Nov. 2022
• Already isolated, the crew of the oil rig Kinloch Bravo finds their problems compounded when a thick, ominous fog envelops the vessel.
  — Keith Phipps, Rolling Stone, 2 Jan. 2023
• Bess takes a bold step by marrying Jan, an uninhibited outsider who works on an offshore oil rig.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2024
• In 2021 vessels from Indonesia and China shadowed each other for months near a submersible oil rig that had been performing well appraisals in the Tuna block.
  — Reuters, CNN, 15 Jan. 2023
• Most work boots have some sort of slip-resistance inherently because of the design of the sole, but certain jobs or job sites—like an oil rig—might require even more slip resistant shoes.
  — Danny Perez, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2023
• Workers on a remote Scottish oil rig are trapped when a mysterious and supernatural fog rolls in.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
• Ali Khalifa, an oil rig worker from Zawiya, west of Tripoli, said his cousin and a group of other men from his neighborhood joined a convoy of vehicles heading to Derna to help out with relief efforts.
  — Time, 17 Sep. 2023
• The agency also recently selected Deniz Burnham, who has experience as a field engineer on a remote oil rig, to train for the astronaut corps.
  — Brendan Byrne, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2023
• Actress Olive Lorraine, who was raised in Texas by a family of oil rig workers, shared her insights to the script and even weighed in on the accuracy of exterior locations through on-set photography.
  — Matt Monagle, Chron, 7 Apr. 2023
• One woman documented her gym routine on an oil rig, while another posted old photos of herself kitted up in neon protective gear.
  — Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024
• An earthquake, a flood, an oil rig explosion (or just the daily operations of an oil company) are considered a economic positive.
  — Eben Bayer, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• The result was a Disneyland-esque simulacrum of an island resort — not quite a convincing illusion, but certainly a less disruptive sight than a standard oil rig.
  — Chris Stanton, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2023
• The same question of informed choice does hold for those considering taking dangerous private sector offshore oil rig or transmission-line maintenance jobs.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Oct 2024