What is "drillship"

Usage examples of "drillship".

This clothing served as a uniform for The Watchmen in training, but also made plausible working gear for them in their secondary roles as drillers, rig mechanics, floormen, roustabouts and other categories of occupation aboard the drillship half a mile off-shore.

The original crew of the drillship went down a couple of thousand feet in the first week or so without striking oil.

The drillship was leased through Libya under an agreement whereby Drioga would supply all technical and support personnel, and there were ample cut-outs in the arrangements.

After all, they had paid an up-front sum of four million dollars for the privilege of spending around a hundred and fifty thousand dollars a day for the running and hiring costs of the drillship in the hope of finding oil or gas, and it would probably cost them between twenty and twenty-five million dollars to drill one hole, so it was reasonable to let them do things their own way.

Their transfer from canoe to drillship had been supervised by the Earl St.

No doubt The Watchmen had been ferried from their shore base to the drillship and were now loading the mother ship that would carry them with their canoes and equipment to within easy reach of Porto Santo.

Krankin was on the deck of the drillship, where he had been supervising the movement of weaponry and equipment from the larger to the smaller ship.

The men on the drillship had not been able to detect the direction from which the arrows had come, and several were still in sight, crouched against a bulkhead or a corner of the derrick base.

Two enemies loose on the drillship were not to be allowed to divert him from that.

There was silence again now, except for the soft shuffle of feet moving on the drillship deck immediately below, a voice calling a whispered order, a clink of metal as a gun muzzle touched some steel part of the superstructure.

From thirty yards away she glanced back to see the drillship on its beam ends, no longer turning, but sinking steadily, and in the surrounding darkness all was chaos, with the sound of rending timber and steel, and the desperate cries of men.

Wee Jock had said that the fracture of a riser containing gas was a critical danger which could sink a drillship in minutes if the fracture occurred at the mud-line.

The foundering of the Drioga drillship will be a maritime tragedy, no more.

It was also fairly obvious that the drillship sinking had been contrived by the same person or persons.

If everybody vanished overnight from the drillship and from Deserta Grande it would be impossible to trace them.