deep-water
- s of or carried on in waters of great depth
a deep-water port
- This month it signed a production deal for three deep-water exploration blocks off the Rakhine coast.
- But only if there are engineers and scientists to design the deep-water platforms, conduct the advanced seismology, route the new pipelines and so on.
- Venezuela's state-run Petroleos de Venezuela is considered a lesser player because it has little deep-water drilling experience.