production platform

British

noun

(in the oil industry) a platform from which development wells are drilled that also houses a processing plant and other equipment necessary to keep an oilfield in production

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This includes building a third pipeline from the Leviathan reservoir to the production platform, as well as increasing the transmission pipeline capacity between Israel and Egypt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

Construction is well underway for the production platform for the gas field.

From BBC • Sep. 3, 2025

Sources have told Reuters that Chinese carmaker JAC's design, engineering and production platform will be used to produce the brand.

From Reuters • Nov. 23, 2022

Undersea wells owned by Taylor Energy have been seeping into the Gulf of Mexico since 2004, when a production platform about 10 miles off the Louisiana coast was damaged by Hurricane Ivan.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2022

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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