(in the oil industry) a platform from which development wells are drilled that also houses a processing plant and other equipment necessary to keep an oilfield in production
production platform in the Oil and Gas Industry
(prədʌkʃən plætfɔrm)
Word forms: (regular plural) production platforms
noun
(Extractive engineering: Offshore)
A production platform is a platform from which development wells are drilled, which also has a processingplant and other equipment that is needed to keep an oilfield in production.
This offshore development has four eight-well drilling platforms and one centralizedproduction platform.
Once it has been determined that an area offshore contains enough oil to make drillingprofitable, fixed production platforms are constructed.
A production platform is a platform from which development wells are drilled, which also has a processingplant and other equipment that is needed to keep an oilfield in production.
Examples of 'production platform' in a sentence
production platform
It makes flexible pipes used in the offshore oil and gas industry to connect undersea wells with floating production platforms.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
THERE are worse places to work than oil or gas production platforms.