oil platform

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 platform in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Romanian news channels reported that the ship was a Turkish vessel carrying grain and had been struck by a drone southeast of a Black Sea oil platform. — ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026

Greenpeace members scaled a chemical plant's smokestack to protest toxic pollution in 1981, and occupied a North Sea oil platform in 1995. — CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026

Ukraine said Thursday its long-range drones had struck a major offshore oil platform in the Caspian Sea this week, in a previously undisclosed mission that signals a new expansion of its target list in a mounting campaign to cut off the Russian energy revenues funding its war. — Vasco Cotovio, CNN Money, 11 Dec. 2025

Transocean Barents, an oil platform passes through Canakkale Strait as vessel traffic suspended in both directions in Canakkale, Turkiye on November 12, 2024. — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2025

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