drilling platform

By that point, experience with offshore oil drilling platforms provided a model.

There was no reason for the people on the drilling platform to do anything other than dismantle.

See remains of old drilling platforms scattered out in the bay.

There was no space where one could operate a lowered drilling platform.

The oil was allegedly under so much pressure that it almost destroyed the drilling platform.

An oil drilling platform grounded near the island as the hurricane passed by.

They build an offshore oil drilling platform with the help of a large company, and find themselves in a lucrative business.

Oil companies also use Chinooks to service offshore drilling platforms.

I know that some countries have already begun inspection of drilling platforms on their own initiative.

And there were no submerged drilling platforms around here with convenient bubbles of air.

"What about the North Atlantic and that oil drilling platform?

This included proposals to place new drilling platforms in offshore oil leases.

The extent of the drilling platform near the wharf can still be seen on satellite images today.

There is a drilling platform behind the Shoney's 24-hour restaurant.

Civic leaders say tourism would be harmed by offshore drilling platforms.

Worldwide, there are currently around 1 600 drilling platforms in operation, and this number is constantly increasing.

New, ever larger and more powerful oil wells and drilling platforms continue to be opened.

In Texas, oil companies evacuated hundreds of employees from off-shore drilling platforms.

"What was a drilling platform doing there anyway?"

In 1954, it built the first jack-up drilling platform.

Out in the gulf, the horizon is punctuated by giant offshore drilling platforms.

Modeled on the offshore oil drilling platforms first employed off the Texas coast, they were in operation from 1958-1963.

Oil companies removed hundreds of employees from drilling platforms in the gulf and curbed some production.

They said that a drilling platform burned for hours and that there might have been one casualty.

They ventured into the neutral zone, were going to attack a drilling platform, and we opened fire."