Sentences with derrick
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D d - A derrick is a wooden or steel structure built over a well site to provide support for the drilling equipment and a tall mast for raising and lowering drillpipe and casing.A drilling rig includes a tall tower called a derrick and all the machinery that raises and lowers the drilling equipment.A derrick is the structure over an oil well that supports the drilling equipment and allows it to be lifted into and out of the wellbore.
- Artist Therese Derrick explores the idea of celebrity in Men We Love, an exhibition of 12 portraits of local male notables.
- The following are all parts of a derrick.crown blockstabbing boardtraveling blockvee-door