offshore rig
Seaborne drilling station
An offshore rig is a large structure in the ocean used for drilling oil or natural gas from beneath the seabed.
These platforms range from fixed structures anchored to the ocean floor to floating vessels that can operate in deep water.
Workers typically live on the rig for weeks at a time: He spent twenty years working on offshore rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
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