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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...
    8 KB (1,020 words) - 12:08, 21 April 2024
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    Jury rigging (redirect from Jerry-rig)
    Look up jury-rig in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In maritime transport and sailing, jury rigging is making temporary makeshift running repairs with...
    13 KB (1,366 words) - 12:03, 23 May 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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  • 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...
    48 KB (4,121 words) - 03:20, 20 May 2024
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    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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    platform (also called an oil rig, offshore platform, oil production platform, etc.) is a large structure with facilities to extract and process petroleum...
    54 KB (6,164 words) - 11:31, 15 May 2024
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    'offshore oil rigs' even if they don't contain a drilling rig). The term "rig" therefore generally refers to the complex equipment that is used to penetrate...
    15 KB (1,734 words) - 20:42, 2 April 2024
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    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 8...
    71 KB (7,082 words) - 21:15, 20 April 2024
  • Rigger may refer to: One who attends to the rigging of a sailing ship Rigger (entertainment), those who tend rigging in stage performance (theater, film...
    836 bytes (146 words) - 17:50, 18 August 2023
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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...
    115 KB (12,607 words) - 15:55, 29 April 2024
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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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  • The Rig is a British supernatural thriller television series created by David Macpherson for Amazon Prime Video. The series is directed by John Strickland...
    19 KB (1,122 words) - 20:49, 15 April 2024
  • 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
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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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    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 to have...
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    A fractional rig on a sailing vessel consists of a foresail, such as a jib or genoa sail, that does not reach all the way to the top of the mast. The...
    7 KB (1,050 words) - 03:46, 16 May 2024
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    Byford Dolphin (category Drilling rigs)
    Byford Dolphin was a semi-submersible, column-stabilised drilling rig operated by Dolphin Drilling, a Fred Olsen Energy subsidiary. It drilled seasonally...
    19 KB (1,868 words) - 21:07, 19 May 2024
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    using a hydraulic workover rig. Unlike wireline or coiled tubing, the pipe is not spooled off a drum but made up and broken up while running in and pulling...
    9 KB (1,327 words) - 15:09, 31 December 2023
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    mast, mainmast and additional masts rigged square and only the aftmost mast (mizzen in three-masted barques) rigged fore and aft. Sometimes, the mizzen...
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