How to Use oil rig in a Sentence

oil rig

noun
  • So, the shot required an oil pump as well as a derrick oil rig.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 21 Oct. 2023
  • What works on an oil rig will not work in a hospital or on a truck.
    — Jason Andersen, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Many of these borrow from oil rig designs for offshore drilling.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 12 May 2023
  • The front of the boat was tied to an oil rig, but the waves worsened, crashing aboard the boat.
    — Christina Zdanowicz, CNN, 15 Oct. 2022
  • That's a body of water on land, and then offshore is all the oil rig deep-sea diving.
    — Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 10 May 2025
  • The daily cost of renting an oil rig, for example, fell by half.
    — David G. Victor, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2017
  • Ah, reminiscences of days working on an oil rig gone by!
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 15 May 2026
  • Does a roughneck working on an oil rig need to be instructed to wear steel-toe boots?
    — WSJ, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Kevin O'Connor spends four weeks at a time working on an offshore oil rig.
    — Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 24 May 2025
  • The drones filmed inside the cooling tower of a coal power plant, as well as above an oil rig out at sea.
    — George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • His job was pumping out the water and wastewater from the trailer homes set up for the oil rig workers.
    — Mckenzie Andersen, oregonlive, 24 July 2023
  • There’s also a mention of a North Sea oil rig, fjords and through-the-exit movie.
    — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2023
  • An oil rig platform was brought to the site, and drilling began just after Thanksgiving.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 20 Dec. 2025
  • An oil rig in Alabama has caught fire on the east side of the Mobile River.
    — C Mandler, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Some trips were unforgettable, including an hours-long battle with a shark near an offshore oil rig.
    — Arkansas Online, 21 June 2026
  • According to Google, interest in oil rig jobs is having a moment.
    — Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • Bess takes a bold step by marrying Jan, an uninhibited outsider who works on an offshore oil rig.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • Vigil has shades of Amazon’s The Rig, which aired first season from an oil rig and the second from an Arctic glacier.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 19 Feb. 2025
  • In Carlsbad, New Mexico, there was an oil rig manager who had trouble paying his bills.
    — ABC News, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Workers on a remote Scottish oil rig are trapped when a mysterious and supernatural fog rolls in.
    — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • On a platform in the middle of the sea, the industrial machinery of an oil rig attempts to send out a warning of an impending catastrophe.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 7 May 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
  • One woman documented her gym routine on an oil rig, while another posted old photos of herself kitted up in neon protective gear.
    — Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024

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