oil rig

noun

: a structure above an oil well on land or in the sea that has special equipment attached to it for drilling and removing oil from the ground

Examples of oil rig in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Bess takes a bold step by marrying Jan, an uninhibited outsider who works on an offshore oil rig. —

Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2024 Martin hails from Logansport, La., and worked on an oil rig before pivoting to music. —

Xander Zellner, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2024 Ali Khalifa, an oil rig worker from Zawiya, west of Tripoli, said his cousin and a group of other men from his neighborhood joined a convoy of vehicles heading to Derna to help out with relief efforts. —

Time, 17 Sep. 2023 The podcast was hosted by Christian Wallace who grew up in West Texas, worked on an oil rig, and got a front row seat to the oil boom and bust in the region. —

Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 22 Feb. 2024 The same question of informed choice does hold for those considering taking dangerous private sector offshore oil rig or transmission-line maintenance jobs. —

Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2024 And along those highways came the farmers and Okies and oil rig roughnecks who would forever shape the culture and landscape of the San Joaquin Valley. —

Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024 According to Google, interest in oil rig jobs is having a moment. —

Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024 There's a new and super-annoying one for this season, an oil rig worker called Miles Dale (Toby Kebbell). —

Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2023

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