drill rigs
Oil extraction structures
Drill rigs are heavy machinery used to bore holes into the earth, whether for oil and gas extraction, water wells, mining exploration, or geological sampling.
The term covers everything from truck-mounted units for shallow wells to massive offshore platforms: The drill rig arrived at the site before dawn.
In the oil industry, a rig includes not just the drilling apparatus but the entire complex of equipment and crew quarters.
- coringRemoving central portion
- casingEnclosing cover or frame
- boreholeDrilled underground passage
- bitSmall amount or portion
- derrickMovable boom apparatus
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- metal miningcopper mine, open-pit mine, underground mine, ore veins, mineral veins
- machineryengine, machinery, industrial machinery, motors, engines
- mininggold, mines, gold mines, mine, coal
- tracklaying vehiclestanks, bulldozers, snowcats, crawlers, pipelayers
- blastingblast, blasting, detonation, explosives, dynamite
- mining geologymineral deposits, mineralization, prospecting, assay, veins
drill rigsdigging sticks
Pointed tools for soil
bare hands · hand tools · shovels · pickaxes · spades
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