oil rig

See also: oilrig

English

Alternative forms

• oilrig

Noun

oil rig (plural oil rigs)

1. A rig, consisting of platform and machinery, used to drill for oil and other petroleum products like natural gas.

Synonyms

• (oil-drilling equipment): drill rig, drilling rig

Translations

oil-drilling platform

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 石油鑽塔／石油钻塔 (shíyóu zuàntǎ), 石油钻塔 (shíyóu zuàntǎ), 石油鑽台 (shíyóu zuàntái), 石油钻台 (shíyóu zuàntái)

• Czech: ropná plošina f
• Danish: borerig
• Dutch: boortoren (nl)
• Finnish: öljynporauslautta (fi), öljylautta (fi)
• French: foreuse (fr) f
• German: Bohrturm (de) m
• Hungarian: fúrótorony (hu)
• Indonesian: rig pengeboran
• Italian: impianto di trivellazione
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 石油プラットフォーム (sekiyu purattofōmu), 石油リグ (sekiyu rigu)
• Norwegian: borerigg (literally drilling rig)

  Bokmål: oljerigg m

  Nynorsk: oljerigg m

• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: wieża wiertnicza f
• Portuguese: plataforma de poço de petróleo f
• Russian: бурова́я вы́шка f (burovája výška)
• Scottish Gaelic: rioga ola m
• Spanish: plataforma petrolera f
• Swedish: oljeborrtorn n, oljeplattform c
• Ukrainian: бурова́ ви́шка f (burová výška)

See also

• Drilling rig on Wikipedia.Wikipedia