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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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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

Innovations in other areas are driving new music technologies, too: WavTool, a recently released, A.I.-powered music production platform, fully integrates OpenAI’s GPT-4 to enable users to create music via text prompts.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2023

A second drilling rig and a second floating production platform are being considered for the next phase along with a more than 100-mile-long gas pipeline, three people close to the discussions said.

From Reuters • May 17, 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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