Yes. An oil rig and an oil production platform are the same thing.
A drilling rig is different though.
The rigs and platforms in the North Sea
According to an internet search, about 30% of the world's crude oil production comes from offshore rigs.
Oakley oil rigs are oil rigs and Oakley sunglasses are sunglasses.
An underwater oil rig does not exist, but semi-submersible rigs do. The pay rates are the same as other types of offshore oil rigs.
Yes, Scotland both produces and uses fossil fuel oil. There are platforms in the North Sea for drilling rigs for both oil and natural gas.
The rigs' platform.
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Oil rigs are used to drill wells in the earth to extract crude oil and natural gas.
Oil rigs are used to drill wells in the earth to extract crude oil and natural gas.
In the United States, the oil rigs that operate offshore are typically too far away to see. There are many work over or drilling rigs in the Texas, Oklahoma and California but they may only be active in one place for a short time. I have flown over the Gulf Coast, and seen from the air what appears to be oil rigs, but they may have been producing platforms. It is far easier to see the pumping units, (pumpjacks) as they are very common in Bakersfield, California.
Drill for oil
the purpose of oil rigs is that they suck all the oil from ocean and then the workers go to different place to suck oil