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oil rig

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. drill rig, drilling rig, oilrig, oil rignoun

    rig used in drilling for oil or gas

Wiktionary

  1. oil rignoun

    A rig, consisting of platform and machinery, used to drill for oil and other petroleum products like natural gas.

Wikipedia

  1. Oil rig

    An oil rig is any kind of apparatus constructed for oil drilling.

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  1. oil rig

    An oil rig is an industrial structure with equipment and facilities designed to drill wells, extract and process petroleum and natural gas, both on land or offshore. It's essentially a large-scale machine built for drilling holes in the earth's surface to obtain oil from underneath. The rig works by drilling through the earth to tap into oil reservoirs. The extracted oil is then processed, stored, or transported for further use.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of oil rig in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of oil rig in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of oil rig in a Sentence

  1. John Challenger:

    The jobs that are most vulnerable are those in the field - engineers, oil rig operators, drill operators, refinery operators.

  2. Guillermo Blanc:

    It's like putting an oil rig in the middle of the Great Barrier Reef, it's insane.

  3. Tom Carper:

    It blatantly ignores the lessons learned of an entirely preventable disaster. It ignores the incredible risks posed by an improperly managed and irregularly inspected offshore oil rig.

  4. Daniel Ang:

    Oil-exporting countries such as Malaysia may have diminished government revenues from falling energy prices and this could exacerbate their debt issues, if prices do continue to fall and persist for a long time ... oil rig developments could be re-evaluated if the cost for extraction continues to exceed the cost per barrel.

  5. Seth Kleinman from Citi:

    All these project cancellations and deferral and cut backs are setting the world up for tighter oil markets in the medium term (2017-19) unless the record Middle East oil rig count successfully translates into significantly higher production, demand will have its say but from a supply perspective it is hard not to believe the seeds of the next price spike are being sown today.


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