oil rig
21Oil platform — A typical offshore oil/gas platform. An oil platform, also referred to as an offshore platform or, somewhat incorrectly, oil rig, is a lаrge structure with facilities to drill wells, to extract and process oil and natural gas, and to temporarily… …
22rig — ▪ I. rig rig 1 [rɪg] noun [countable] 1. MANUFACTURING a large structure used to get oil from under the ground: • an offshore oil rig • The company owns and operates 13 drilling rigs …
23rig — rig1 [ rıg ] noun count * ▸ 1 for getting oil/gas ▸ 2 large truck ▸ 3 set of equipment ▸ 4 arrangement of sails ▸ 5 set of clothes/uniform 1. ) a tall structure fitted with equipment for getting oil or gas out of the ground or from under the… …
24rig — I UK [rɪɡ] / US noun [countable] Word forms rig : singular rig plural rigs * 1) a tall structure fitted with equipment for getting oil or gas out of the ground or from under the bottom of the sea a drilling rig an oil rig 2) American a large… …
25Oil industry in Aberdeen — The Oil industry in Aberdeen began with the discovery of significant oil deposits in the North Sea during the mid 20th Century. Aberdeen became the centre of Europe s petroleum industry. With the largest heliport in the world and an important… …
26rig — rig1 verb (rigs, rigging, rigged) 1》 provide (a boat) with sails and rigging. ↘assemble and adjust (the equipment of a sailing boat, aircraft, etc.) in readiness for operation. ↘(often rig something up) set up (a device or structure),… …
27Oil industry in Azerbaijan — Azerbaijan produces about 800,000 barrels of oil per day and 1 bcma of gas a production that will grow to historical peak of 1.2 million bo/d by 2008 with an equally large amount of gas. Azerbaijan is one of the birthplaces of the oil industry,… …
28rig — 1. v. & n. v.tr. (rigged, rigging) 1 a provide (a sailing ship) with sails, rigging, etc. b prepare ready for sailing. 2 (often foll. by out, up) fit with clothes or other equipment. 3 (foll. by up) set up hastily or as a makeshift. 4 assemble… …
29oil — n. & v. n. 1 any of various thick, viscous, usu. inflammable liquids insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents (see also essential oil, fixed oil, mineral oil, volatile oil). 2 US petroleum. 3 (in comb.) using oil as fuel (oil heater). 4 …
30oil — oilless, adj. oillessness, n. oillike, adj. /oyl/, n. 1. any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming …
