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n. - A derrick and attendant machinery used in drilling for petroleum deposits.

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  • In April, BP's oilrig exploded and poured more than 200 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of
  • Downtown streets awash in floodwaters there, winds from the storms outer bands literally whipping an oilrig loose.
  • What he ended up doing is actually taking some time off from school and going to work on an oilrig in southern Texas.
  • Orion climbed the high oilrig, one of the thousands that dotted the small cities, built to drill hopelessly through dry earth.
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