Kui lähtuda sellest, et on naftapuurplatvorm, siis peaks inglise keeles olema offshore oil drilling platform või offshore oil platform. Laialt on levinud offshore oil rig. Kui aga lähtuda inglikeelsest terminist offshore drilling platform, siis peaks eesti keeles olema hoopis avamere puurplatvorm või merepuurplatvorm.
The offshore drilling platform Berkut is one of the largest in the world. It is located 25 kilometers from Sakhalin Island on the shelf in the Sea of Okhotsk.
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An offshore platform, often referred to as an oil platform or an oil rig, is a large structure used in offshore drilling to house workers and machinery needed to drill wells in the ocean bed, extract oil or natural gas, or both, process the produced fluids, and ship or pipe them to shore.
