drilling rig

noun

1. the full name for rig 1

2. a mobile drilling platform used for exploratory offshore drilling

Example Sentences

America’s real comparative advantage is its workers of all stripes—everywhere from factory floors to drilling rigs, corporate cubicles to garage startups—who devise new ways of doing business.

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Critics think that the economics of Fervo’s power plants might never be competitive with the natural-gas and oil resources with which they must compete for drilling rigs.

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Seven offshore drilling rigs stand in the vicinity, with three permanently shuttered, and four temporarily out of operation.

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They had been propped open to allow cables and pipes to run through, as part of the rapid work going on board to convert the Kielland back into a drilling rig.

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Billions of dollars worth of natural gas, now locked in shale rock deep underground, await Coterra’s drilling rigs.

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