drill rig
Oil extraction structure
A drill rig is the complete apparatus used to bore holes into the earth—for oil and gas extraction, water wells, mining exploration, or geological sampling.
The term covers everything from massive offshore platforms to truck-mounted units: The drill rig operated around the clock.
Also called a drilling rig.
- derrickMovable boom apparatus
- wellheadSurface opening of bore
- Christmas treeDecorated seasonal evergreen display
- roughneckOil platform laborer
- boreholeDrilled underground passage
oil well · kelly · doghouse · oil patch · auger · bit · petroleum · offshore · gusher · wildcatting · fossil fuels · core sample · completion · casing · blowout · prospecting · diesel · hydraulic
- heavy equipmentexcavator, excavators, bulldozers, loader, backhoe
- quarry termsblasting, granite quarry, marble quarry, limestone quarry, gravel pit
- quarryingquarry, quarryman, quarry worker, quarrying, stone blocks
- drillingbore hole, auger, bit, rotary, casing
- drilling equipmentoffshore rigs, drillships, auger, stabilizers, drills
- field instrumentsrock hammer, inclinometer, hand lens, clinometer, gravimeter
extraction vs. distribution equipment
drill rigpump
Fluid-moving machine
refinery · storage tank · pipeline · pump station · tanker truck
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