derrick

“Oil Creek between Titusville and Oil City,” taken in 1860, possibly by John Mather, shows one derrick.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

A giant wooden oil derrick serves as a central landmark in Taft, which finances its schools, fire department and police force with oil revenues.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

First cranes, then the drilling derrick and finally the accommodation modules fell into the sea.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025

For Anderson’s 2007 mad epic, he walked ranches around Marfa, Texas, before deciding on the knoll where the 90-foot oil derrick would go.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024

Atop these, on railcar wheels or “trucks,” they erected a “traveler,” a giant derrick consisting of three tall towers spanned at the top by a platform.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

A picture taken by him 10 years later in Titusville shows a field littered with derricks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Dotting the shoreline is a bleak expanse of detritus: timeworn pumps, tottering derricks, wayward cranes and aging pipelines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2026

“We must and will do it all — from oil derricks on our Coast to solar panels in the Delta,” Reeves said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

Offshore wind advocates point out that oil derricks are also threatened by hurricanes, and most of the nation’s wind projects have so far held up to powerful storms.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 11, 2023

Gone are the big petroleum companies and the forests of derricks as the vast oil fields have been increasingly depleted.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann