drill site
Where rigs operate
A drill site is a location where drilling operations take place, typically for extracting oil, natural gas, or water, or for geological exploration.
The term encompasses the physical area where drilling equipment is set up: The company established a new drill site in the Permian Basin.
Environmental regulations often govern what can happen at and around drill sites.
- rigEquipment arrangement or vehicle
- derrickMovable boom apparatus
- oil wellPetroleum extraction site
- wellheadSurface opening of bore
- excavationAct of unearthing
bore · platform · oilfield · black gold · mud · roughneck · casing · petroleum · extraction · offshore · pipeline · geologist · survey · core · sample · hardhat · safety gear · crane
- drillingbore hole, auger, bit, rotary, casing
- offshore industryoffshore rig, semisubmersible, floating platform, helipad, subsea
- constructionhammer, building, beam, beams, concrete
- fossil fuelspetroleum, crude oil, natural gas, coal, anthracite
- mininggold, mines, gold mines, mine, coal
- Core Drillingcore sample, core samples, coring, ice cores
drill siterefinery
Industrial purification facility
oil refinery · processing plant · petrochemical plant · gas station · smelter
drill sitenature preserve
Protected natural habitat area
wildlife sanctuary · protected area · wilderness · conservation zone · national park
drill siteuntouched wilderness
Land never altered by people
virgin forest · greenfield · undeveloped land · natural habitat · open space
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