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Definition of Drilling platform
1. Noun. Drilling rig consisting of an offshore platform (floating or fixed to the sea bed) from which many oil wells can be bored radially.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drilling Platform
Literary usage of Drilling platform
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manufacture of Artillery Ammunition by John Herbert Van Deventer, E. A. Suverkrop, Robert Mawson, Fred Herbert Colvin (1917)
"FIXTURE AND GAGES FOB drilling platform HOLES. PRODUCTION, 100 PER HR. Jig for
drilling platform hole; diameter and depth gage for platform hole The flash ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1922)
"The drilling platform need not be taken down for blasting. ... A standard drilling
platform is employed and facilitates operations greatly. ..."
3. Report of the Military Governor of the Philippine Islands on Civil Affairs by United States War Dept (1899)
"The drilling platform, which was built especially for this work in 1896, ...
The plant consisted of a drilling platform and pontoons, a flat barge 50 by 15 ..."
4. Handbook of Rock Excavation, Methods and Cost by Halbert Powers Gillette (1916)
"... steam to the drill, and in fact all auxiliary equipment, on a small scow
floating alongside. Thus the entire floor space of the drilling platform is ..."
5. The Geological Record Of Ecological Dynamics: Understanding The Biotic by National Academies Press (U.S.) (2005)
"In the early 1 980s it was clear not only that ocean coring using the DSDP drilling
platform—the Glomar Challenger—had been immensely successful, ..."
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