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  • Look up rig or ríg in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rig or RIG may refer to: Rig (fishing), an arrangement of items used for fishing Drilling rig, a...
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    A jackup rig or a self-elevating unit is a type of mobile platform that consists of a buoyant hull fitted with a number of movable legs, capable of raising...
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    Jury rigging (redirect from Jerry-rig)
    Look up jury-rig in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In maritime transport terms, and most commonly in sailing, jury-rigged is an adjective, a noun, and...
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  • drilling rig owned by Transocean and operated by BP. On 20 April 2010, while drilling at the Macondo Prospect, a blowout caused an explosion on the rig that...
    47 KB (4,064 words) - 17:04, 25 April 2024
  • Kolskaya was a jack-up rig operating in the Russian Far East. It was built by Rauma-Repola in Pori, Finland in 1985 and was owned by the Russian company...
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    A drilling rig is an integrated system that drills wells, such as oil or water wells, or holes for piling and other construction purposes, into the earth's...
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    drilling rig owned by Transocean and built in South Korea. The platform was 396 feet (121 m) long and 256 feet (78 m) wide and could operate in waters up to...
    71 KB (7,082 words) - 21:15, 20 April 2024
  • Parachute rigger Bondage rigger, one who ties up others primarily as an art form One who sets up a racing shell in the sport of rowing Rigger, Duke Nukem's...
    836 bytes (146 words) - 17:50, 18 August 2023
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    An oil platform (also called an oil rig, offshore platform, oil production platform, etc.) is a large structure with facilities to extract and process...
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  • Thumbnail for Gaff rig
    Gaff rig is a sailing rig (configuration of sails, mast and stays) in which the sail is four-cornered, fore-and-aft rigged, controlled at its peak and...
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    Carolina rig is a fishing rig similar to the Texas rig, but with the sinker weight fixed above the hook instead of sliding down to it. The Carolina rig is suitable...
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    Lateen (redirect from Lateen rig)
    Look up lateen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A lateen (from French latine, meaning "Latin") or latin-rig is a triangular sail set on a long yard...
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  • production/service RTTS – retrievable test-treat-squeeze (packer) RU – rig up RURT – rig up rotary tools RV – relief valve RVI – remote video inspection RWD...
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    Rigveda (redirect from Rig-veda)
    The Rigveda or Rig Veda (Sanskrit: ऋग्वेद, IAST: ṛgveda, from ऋच्, "praise" and वेद, "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns...
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  • The Rig is a British supernatural thriller television series created by David Macpherson for Amazon Prime Video. The series is directed by John Strickland...
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    A full-rigged ship or fully rigged ship is a sailing vessel with a sail plan of three or more masts, all of them square-rigged. Such a vessel is said...
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  • Rip Rig + Panic was an English post-punk band founded in 1980 and disbanded in 1983. The band was named after the 1965 jazz album of the same name by...
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    The Texas rig is a fishing rig used for angling with soft plastic lures. It comprises a bullet weight or similar sliding fishing sinker, an offset worm...
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  • Look up big rig in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A big rig or semi-trailer truck is an articulated vehicle that consists of a towing engine. Big Rig(s)...
    530 bytes (122 words) - 04:34, 31 December 2023
  • Tender assisted rigs are an existing type of development drilling, workover or plug and abandonment rig (same "family" as jack up rig, semi-submersible...
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