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ballast

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weight added to make a mobile offshore drilling rig more seaworthy, increase its draft, or sink it to the seafloor. Ballast is usually seawater, but sometimes concrete or iron is used additionally to lower the rig's center of gravity permanently.

 

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A-FRAME
A-h
A-mast
AAODC
AAPG
Abandon
ABANDONED OIL
Abandoned Well
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