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

At the end of the wharf, under the derrick used for unloading the largest ships, he stripped off his clothes and dove into the water.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 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

In Echo Park, the area surrounding Vista Hermosa Park, once a sprawling assemblage of oil derricks, has drastically changed over the last century.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2023

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

They were hoisted out of the boats with derricks and windlasses built by the carpenters and put into waiting carts that carried them through the town to the site.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay