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drilling platform

British

noun

a structure, either fixed to the sea bed or mobile, which supports the machinery and equipment (the drilling rig), together with the stores, required for digging an offshore oil well

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A clutch of small Chinese companies in recent years have stepped into Venezuela production deals, including one that several months ago floated a sophisticated new drilling platform onto Lake Maracaibo, a major production area.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 24, 2026

Helicopters have been sent to assist a North Sea drilling platform which lost anchors during Storm Babet.

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2023

An oil and gas drilling platform stands offshore near Dauphin Island, Alabama, October 5, 2013.

From Reuters • Aug. 11, 2022

Platform Ellen was designed as the drilling platform, tasked with extracting oil from the initial five wells that had tapped into the reservoir of oil, straddling the Palo Verde and Newport-Inglewood earthquake faults.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2021

The leaking pipeline connects to an oil production platform named Elly, which in turn is connected by a walkway to a drilling platform named Ellen.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 3, 2021

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