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production platform

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noun

  1. (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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

It will use a new bio-manufacturing production platform from Univercells, a Belgian start-up that aims to make vaccine ingredients more quickly and in a smaller space.

From New York Times Apr. 25, 2023

Sixteen wells off Louisiana have been leaking since September 2004, when a subsea mudslide caused by Hurricane Ivan knocked over a Taylor production platform, dragging and breaking a cluster of pipes.

From Seattle Times Dec. 22, 2021

The 16-inch diameter, 17-mile-long pipeline runs from Amplify's Elly oil production platform offshore to Long Beach, where the oil is stored and transported for refining.

From Reuters Oct. 8, 2021

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