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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

Elsewhere, coastguard helicopters airlifted 45 workers off a North Sea drilling platform after it lost anchors during the extreme weather.

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2023

In a Nov. 4 filing with the ANP, the company said it found hydrocarbons, but they were insufficient to justify a drilling platform, according to a person familiar with those results.

From Reuters • Feb. 14, 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

During a 10-day period in early 1969, between about 3.5 million and 4.2 million gallons of crude spilled into the Santa Barbara Channel after a blowout six miles offshore on a Union Oil drilling platform.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2021

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