offshore platform

collocation in English

meaningsofoffshoreandplatform

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offshore
adjective
adverb
uk
/ˌɒfˈʃɔːr/us
/ˌɑːfˈʃɔːr/
away from or at a distance from ...
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platform
noun
uk
/ˈplæt.fɔːm/us
/ˈplæt.fɔːrm/
a flat raised area ...
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(Definition ofoffshoreandplatformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The conference also agreed to phase out the dumping and incineration of industrial waste and to apply tighter controls to discharges from ships and offshore platforms.
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By more intensive sampling of coastal waters and of waters adjacent to offshore platforms.
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Having said that, what measures do you intend to take in the short term to improve safety and accident prevention on offshore platforms located in our territorial waters?
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The form must be accompanied by the content, and the writing by insistence on implementation down the line on the offshore platforms, where it really matters.
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Such a forum could also explore the possibilities of diversification, through decommissioning or recommissioning, alternative energy supply such as offshore wind farms, and the servicing of offshore platforms.
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Without major new policy initiatives, shipbuilding, merchant shipbuilding, ship repairing andoffshoreplatformbuilding industries are likely to go to the wall.
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The second subject would be research onoffshoreplatformpower generation as perhaps.
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He has therefore come to the inevitable conclusion that he has been victimised because he decided to try to become a safety representative on anoffshoreplatform.
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The firstoffshoreplatformwas installed by 1976.
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Another type ofoffshoreplatformmay float with a mooring system to maintain it on location.
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Further topical coverage includes research and technology in fluid dynamics, separation processes,offshoreplatformissues, and new hydraulic and pneumatic equipment applications and operations.
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He tells her it is anoffshoreplatformbut that only men work in such a place.
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A typical case is wave measurements from anoffshoreplatformin deep waters with the presence of high currents making the mooring of a wave buoy enormously difficult.
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A 25,000 litre storage tank can be easily shipped by air freight or can be delivered to anoffshoreplatformby helicopter or small work boats easily.
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There are, at present, hundreds of offshore platforms, drilling for both oil and natural gas.
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A programme of work for the installation of emergency shutdown valves on offshore platforms is also important.
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If employees in refineries can be taken into the trust of management and work on safety committees, the same should hold on the offshore platforms.
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Is not he aware that there are four or five firms which build offshore platforms?
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As he was about to visit various offshore platforms, he agreed to look into whether there was any aggro or dissatisfaction.
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