Word.ws English Dictionary

oil platform

oil platform noun: a large structure used to house workers and machinery needed to drill and then produce oil and natural gas in the ocean.

oil platform: a large structure used to house workers and machinery needed to drill and then produce oil and...
Image: Berardo62, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

oil platform (plural oil platforms)

  1. A large structure used to house workers and machinery needed to drill and then produce oil and natural gas in the ocean.
    • Near-synonyms: (broadly synonymous) oil rig, drill rig, drilling rig

Synonyms of oil platform

Forms of oil platform

pluraloil platforms

Questions about oil platform

What does oil platform mean?
Oil platform means a large structure used to house workers and machinery needed to drill and then produce oil and natural gas in the ocean.
What part of speech is oil platform?
Oil platform is a noun.
What is the plural of oil platform?
The plural of oil platform is oil platforms.

Words near oil platform in the dictionary

  1. oil pan
  2. oil pans
  3. oil patch
  4. oil patches
  5. oil pipeline
  6. oil platform
  7. oil platforms
  8. oil press
  9. oil presses
  10. oil pull
  11. oil pulled

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: oil platform (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “oil platform.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/oil_platform. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.