oil platform

English

Noun

oil platform (plural oil platforms)

1. A large structure used to house workers and machinery needed to drill and then produce oil and natural gas in the ocean.

Synonyms

• offshore oil rig

Translations

structure for oil

• Finnish: öljynporauslautta (fi)
• German: Bohrinsel (de) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oljeplattform m or f

  Nynorsk: oljeplattform f

• Portuguese: plataforma de petróleo f, plataforma (pt) f
• Romanian: platformă petrolieră f