derrick
drilling ring

Within weeks oil derricks were erected all over the area.

He turned his back abruptly on the derricks and began to walk slowly away from the city.

Now, many of those same derricks are drilling again, this time for natural gas.

Don't know about them, but all those derricks look the same to me!"

By comparison, the derricks looked as if they hadn't been operated in years.

There, damage was limited to oil derricks and other light structures.

We were finishing breakfast on the second morning after my visit to the Derricks.

The first few oil derricks came into view, decorated in lights like a Christmas tree.

She had two derricks with a lifting capacity of 120 tons.

He spent the next hour strolling around the derricks, paying especially close attention to those that still worked, looking for sign.

Only some of the derricks may have fallen down by then.'

The only structures remaining from prior to 1942 are the two cable derricks.

Oil derricks are visible just off some of the fairways on the golf course.

The boat sped back to the yacht and to the waiting arms of the derricks.

And there they were, operating derricks in front of the Kamakupa train station.

Even the huge derricks were lost in the black-ness.

And the bosun needed Rapadas to help with the derricks.

Elk Basin is an active oil field with hundreds of derricks operating in it.

All her cargo space was forward and the foremast incorporated two derricks.

Much of the landscape remains scarred with rusting oil derricks.

This time the derricks were guyed and in place, but not yet fitted with tackle.

Derricks hung above the cars upon the spur track.

At the moment a crew of riggers was erecting the derricks.

Out in the ocean, I could see the lights on the oil derricks winking through the mist.

Now, two derricks swung additional prefabricated pieces of tower into place.