How to Use oil platform in a Sentence
oil platform
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The Filanovsky oil platform, owned by Lukoil, claims to be the largest oil field in the Russian sector of the Caspian.
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Vasco Cotovio,
CNN Money,
11 Dec. 2025
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Greenpeace members scaled a chemical plant's smokestack to protest toxic pollution in 1981, and occupied a North Sea oil platform in 1995.
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CBS News,
27 Feb. 2026
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Greenpeace members scaled a chemical plant’s smokestack to protest toxic pollution in 1981, and occupied a North Sea oil platform in 1995.
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ABC News,
26 Feb. 2026
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Transocean Barents, an oil platform passes through Canakkale Strait as vessel traffic suspended in both directions in Canakkale, Turkiye on November 12, 2024.
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Spencer Kimball,
CNBC,
25 Sep. 2025
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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.
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Vasco Cotovio,
CNN Money,
11 Dec. 2025
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In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, operated by BP, sank into the Gulf of Mexico two days after a massive explosion that killed 11 workers.
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ABC News,
6 Apr. 2026
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