drilling derrick

The scanner will be on top of the drilling derrick.

Since it is hard to maneuver a drilling derrick behind a town house, the sidewalks are the way in.

The ship was the first to offer a dual drilling derrick capability.

The drilling derrick was toppled over and was on the sea bed.

The present site preserves the concrete drilling derrick foundations and the capped well head.

Its drilling derrick is 20 stories tall.

The drilling derrick was an obvious target, but how Cronkite could approach it unseen could not be imagined.

The Lower Drilling Derrick is still operating and is pumping brine.

We will strike open sea after we cross the offshore North Carolina drilling derricks, though."

The two men paused at the drilling derrick where a drill, at its maximum angled capacity, was trying to determine the extent of the oilfield.

Heimatverein cares for the Upper Drilling Derrick and was instrumental in preserving it.

The Upper Drilling Derrick is located in a half timbered building and was restored by a local initiative from 2006 until 2009 and is a Museum since.

The two Drilling Derricks of the historical salt works built in 1865 and 1882 and the brine reservoir built in 1882 are technical monuments since 1984.

On February 3, 1947, a test sent a geyser shooting out of the drilling hole and up half the height of the drilling derrick, covering a worker with oil.

BP reported that the drilling derrick (tower) on its Mad Dog platform had been toppled into the sea, adding that it was too early to predict when the platform could resume production.

When all was ready, Roselli led them away from the deck opening, threading up several steel ladders and deeper into the platform, until they were climbing the weather shroud on the central drilling derrick itself.

Apart from its towering drilling derrick, it is indistinguishable from any oceangoing cargo vessel; its purpose is to drill boreholes in areas where seismological and geological studies suggest oil may exist.

A coiled tubing operation is normally performed through the drilling derrick on the oil platform, which is used to support the surface equipment, although on platforms with no drilling facilities a self-supporting tower can be used instead.

In February, an investigative report in The New York Times revealed the dramatic impact the gas boom has had on the landscape: "Drilling derricks tower over barns, lining rural roads like feed silos," the report's author Ian Urbina said.

The most interesting thing on the middle deck was the work site where they were building some kind of platform into the main structure of the drilling derrick: the area was cluttered with welding gear and pneumatic rivet hammers and there weren't any signs that the job had been abandoned.

It seemed endless, and I knew now that it must be some part of the drilling derrick, the kidder, I was now almost sure, that led up to the "monkey board," that narrow shelf where a man guided the half-ton sections of the drill pipe, as it came from the ground, into the storage racks behind.