drilling platform

1. 1.

   drilling rig consisting of an offshore platform (floating or fixed to the sea bed) from which many oil wells can be bored radially

   Synonymsoffshore rig

   Broaderdrill rig

Questions about drilling platform

What does drilling platform mean?

drilling platform means "drilling rig consisting of an offshore platform (floating or fixed to the sea bed) from which many oil wells can be bored radially".

What is another word for drilling platform?

Close synonyms include offshore rig. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drilling platform a common word?

drilling platform is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.