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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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A legal complaint, the judge said, is not "a protected platform to rage against an adversary".

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2025

They were frequently temporary structures, sometimes consisting of little more than a protected platform, mounted on scaffolding, which could be easily taken down and stowed away.

From Ancient and Modern Ships. Part 1. Wooden Sailing Ships by Holmes, George C. V.

Ten men on that protected platform, he thought, might suffer from the sun, but they could hold the building and command a good-sized section of the city ramparts against all comers.

From Told in the East by Mundy, Talbot

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