drill ship

But without a drill ship, further measurements in the hole had been impossible.

The helicopter was flying from Galveston to an oil drilling ship.

At least 200 fishermen were killed, with 81 of the total from an oil drilling ship which sank during the storm.

The analysis was done on a core of rock taken by an international oceanographic drilling ship in 1997.

Drill ships operate in very deep water and often have to ride out rough sea conditions.

After fleet service, the vessel became a drill ship on the Tyne in 1907.

The expedition involved three icebreakers, one of which had been fitted as a drilling ship.

There had been a drill ship moored in London since 1 April 1862.

Three further ultra deep water drill ships are currently under construction and due for completion in 2013.

The ocean floor is now riddled with more than 1,000 holes worldwide dug by drill ships.

The Enterprise class drillship is the largest of the drilling ships.

One exploratory drill ship produces the smog equivalent of 7,000 cars driven 50 miles per day.

Lightning strikes from thunderstorms may cause isolated fires, as happened on a drill ship near the spill.

The drill ship does not strike oil, but does discover a very hard form of diamond which turns out to be Carbon 60.

She was a Royal Naval Reserve drill ship from 1873.

Duplus was a diving support and sample drilling ship for the petrol industry.

A drilling ship, shielded from drifting sea ice by several icebreakers, extracted a core more than 1,000 feet long over the last three weeks.

Drill ships: This is essentially an oceangoing vessel with, you guessed it, a drilling platform in the middle.

Drill ships like this one are often used to drill exploratory wells into suspected petroleum deposits.

All 95 crew members were evacuated from the rig to the nearby drilling ship Neptune Discoverer.

She was used as a drill ship for the Royal Naval Reserve from 1904 and was sold in 1947.

And over the last two years, the cost of hiring deepwater drill ships has doubled because of their limited availability.

She was renamed HMS Satellite on becoming a drill ship in 1947.

Erne was reduced to a drill ship on 4 June 1952 and renamed Wessex.

The team then head to northern Russia to secure some drilling ships so that the loyalist Russian forces can have a steady flow of oil.