drilling platform
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈdrɪlɪŋ ˈplætfɔrm/
- Specialized
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plataforma de perforación
- The engineers worked on the offshore drilling platform to ensure it was safe and secure for the workers.
- oil drilling platform
- offshore drilling platform
Examples
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Do drilling platforms blow up (because of a poor safety culture) and helicopters crash?
Blog text (32) -
We do not like the oil drilling platform!
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we do not like the oil drilling platform!
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somebody hijacked an oil drilling platform Outside California.
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Where's the nearest oceanic oil-drilling platform?
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Out beyond the surfers, he could see the drilling platforms standing in the channel, spraddle-legged, sucking at the bottom.
Fiction book (1998) -
The island was really an oil-drilling platform, its machinery artfully hidden under a series of pastel structures that looked like condominiums.
Fiction book (1995) -
The Sakhalin 1 Consortium's Orlan drilling platform was towed from Alaska to a site off Sakhalin Island.
Academic text (2002) -
Not a single light—not a ship, nor a navigation buoy, nor a drilling platform—showed in the darkness.
Fiction book (1994) -
In its heyday, Neft Dashlari consisted of 2,000 drilling platforms connected by countless bridges that stretched over 300 kilometers.
Blog text (10)
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
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5.6
A large structure in the sea for drilling oil or gas from under the sea floor
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5.1
A large machine that drills wells to get oil or gas
Large platform at sea where workers get oil or gas from under the sea floor
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is a straightforward composition of 'drilling' (the process of making holes) and 'platform' (a raised structure), so its meaning — a structure used for drilling — is directly derivable from the constituents. While specific knowledge that many such platforms are offshore is domain-specific, the core concept is literal and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows the two words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Drilling platform gives a clear picture: a flat platform out at sea with a big machine that is drilling a hole into the ground under the water. Because the platform holds the people and machines needed to drill, the phrase now means 'a structure that holds drilling equipment at sea'.