offshore rigs
Sea drilling structures
Offshore rigs are large structures in the ocean used to drill for oil or gas beneath the seabed.
They may be fixed to the ocean floor or floating, depending on water depth.
Working on offshore rigs typically means long rotations in isolated, demanding conditions: He spent twenty years on offshore rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
- oil platformMarine drilling installation
- drill bitRotating hole-cutting attachment
- drillshipMaritime drilling vessel
- derrickMovable boom apparatus
- roustaboutUnskilled transient worker
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- petroleumcrude oil, crude, petroleum, oil wells, oil fields
- energy infrastructurepower grid, electrical grid, electricity grid, electric grid, national grid
- oil industrypetroleum, oil fields, oil well, oil rig, oil production
- drilling equipmentdrill bit, drill pipe, drilling rig, drillships, drill rig
- shipbuildingshipyards, shipyard, dockyards, dockyard, hull
energy source type
offshore rigssolar farms
Large-scale photovoltaic installations
wind farms · hydroelectric dams · nuclear power plants · geothermal plants · solar panels
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