derrick

Example Sentences

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All oil producers, when they sign a lease, promise to remove their derricks and restore the ocean floor to its natural state.

From Los Angeles Times

Depending on one’s perspective, images of oil derricks dominating the California coast in the 1920s could be seen as “environmental degradation” or the “corporate abuse of small landowners,” Waldie said.

From Los Angeles Times

As California increasingly transitions to cleaner energy, its remaining offshore oil derricks might seem like relics of a fossil fuel age whose days are numbered.

From Los Angeles Times

How would all of this affect earth-moving workers, fabricators, those pouring concrete, derrick operators, plumbers and pipe fitters, and licensed truckers, he asked.

From Seattle Times

Pumps and derricks were everywhere, extending into the ocean itself.”

From Los Angeles Times