How to Use oil rig in a Sentence

oil rig

noun
  • Ah, reminiscences of days working on an oil rig gone by!
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 15 May 2026
  • An oil rig platform was brought to the site, and drilling began just after Thanksgiving.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Some trips were unforgettable, including an hours-long battle with a shark near an offshore oil rig.
    — Arkansas Online, 21 June 2026
  • The scammer claims to be on an oil rig or in a war zone (but rotating home soon) or is otherwise unreachable in person.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Arkansas Online, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Moments later, the tension gives way to spectacle as the group watches the oil rig float past, headed for deeper waters.
    — Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 11 Jan. 2026
  • In season 1, Ariana lost her husband — and the father of her infant son — in an oil rig explosion.
    — Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 23 Nov. 2025
  • In May, the company drilled 40 feet into a granite core using a full-scale oil rig near Houston.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Skarsgård plays her husband, Jan, who works on an oil rig and is paralyzed in an industrial accident.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The system could be used to examine ships, check weld joints on bridge supports, inspect pipelines, or assess oil rig infrastructure.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Nov. 2025
  • When a nuclear submarine disappears, the crew of a civilian oil rig goes on a search and rescue mission with jaw-dropping consequences.
    — Grace Dean, Space.com, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Levels like the oil rig Blackheart are just a circle, but one route around must be jumped across like a trampoline park — that’s the extent of creativity for many.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The movie focuses on the community in Big Sky country, who are nervous about a recent power outage on an oil rig.
    — Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Season 2 of Landman, the West Texas oil rig drama from Taylor Sheridan, is coming to a close.
    — Uwa Ede-Osifo, Dallas Morning News, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The Michigan victim thought her love interest was seriously injured in an explosion while working on an oil rig — and willingly rushed money to help.
    — Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 30 Oct. 2025
  • But bright white spotlights from the 25-story oil rig nearby illuminated the dark waves and attracted the fisherman’s prize — yellowfin tuna.
    — Kylie Williams, Miami Herald, 29 Nov. 2025
  • The petroleum jelly brand was formulated by a young chemist, Robert Chesebrough, who observed oil rig workers use the gooey residue to treat cuts and burns in 1870.
    — Kian Bakhtiari, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Since that time, Spots have been dispatched to Italy to patrol ancient ruins in Pompeii; to New Zealand to herd sheep; and to Norway to work on an oil rig.
    — New Atlas, 29 Aug. 2025
  • South Korea has also objected to a former oil rig that China set up in the Yellow Sea, within a zone jointly designated for fishing and navigation.
    — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Diamond Rio played it for a memorial again during a 2010 funeral in Mississippi for 11 workers who died in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Elsewhere, Ukrainian drones hit a Russian oil rig, the military patrol ship Okhotnik and other facilities, Ukraine's General Staff said in a statement Saturday.
    — CBS News, 20 Dec. 2025
  • The drama, co-created by Taylor Sheridan and Christian Wallace, focuses on Thornton, who plays Tommy Norris, a landman who works at an independent oil rig in West Texas.
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 15 Nov. 2025
  • NewSubstance utilizes over 20 years of experience to forge public art from a variety of immense canvases including a North Sea oil rig, Baku’s Olympic Stadium in Azerbaijan, and even the night sky above the Secret Garden Party in Cambridge, England.
    — Niyaz Pirani, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Technicians stand next to an oil rig which is manufactured by Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Limited (MEIL) at an Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) plant, during a media tour of the plant in Dhamasna village in the western state of Gujarat, India, August 26, 2021.
    — Emma Graham, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2025

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