drill rig
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5.1
- noun
- /drɪl rɪg/
- Specialized
:
plataforma de perforación
- My understanding is that typically multiple wells are drilled using horizontal drilling from the same drill rig position.
- drill rigs searching for oil
Examples
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The drill rig is set up at the site where they plan to extract oil.
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A half mile below the ground at Prudhoe Bay, above the vast oil field that helped trigger construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline, a drill rig has tapped what might one day be the next big energy source.
Blog text (30) -
Someone hung the banner across the drill rig.
Fiction book (1993) -
There's a drill rig five miles from here.
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This is the Wilforce-3 deepwater drill rig!
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A drill rig sinking a test well next to the stormwater filter burst a hydraulic line during a rainstorm.
Academic text (1995) -
The workers began operating the drill rig early in the morning to maximize their output.
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Nearby, a new drill rig was installed to explore for natural gas reserves.
Synonyms
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3.5
A large platform with machines that drill oil and gas on land or at sea
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4.1
A large machine that makes holes in the ground to get oil or gas
A large structure on land or at sea where people drill for oil and gas
How Big
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- Specialized
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5.1
- Specialized
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5.8
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3.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun combines two concrete constituents: 'drill' (a tool or the action of drilling) and 'rig' (an assembly or piece of equipment), so the meaning 'equipment for drilling wells' is directly compositional. Although the specific industrial scale (large structure for oil/gas) is domain-specific, the basic sense is predictable from the parts and paralleled in other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the meaning.
Etymology
The name drill rig comes from the tool drill, which 'makes holes', and rig, a word for a 'set of heavy equipment' or a big machine on a work site. So a drill rig is the whole large machine and structure that holds the drill and lets workers drill deep wells for oil or gas.