Sentence examples for a drill ship from inspiring English sources

The containment vessel will be lowered while still attached to a drill ship.

The mud would be pumped from a drill ship, the Q4000, that is in place on the surface.

Then, last month, a drill ship dragged anchor and went adrift, nearly colliding with the Alaskan shore.

The Noble Discoverer, built in 1966, was a log carrier before it was converted into a drill ship in 1972.

The Jack Ryan, a drill ship capable of exploring for oil in water 3,000 metres (10,000 feet) deep.

In recent days, BP attached a mile-long tube into the leaking well designed to divert oil to a drill ship before it leaked into the gulf.

A funnel-like containment device will be fitted above the cut riser to draw the escaping oil through tubing attached to a drilling ship.

The effort, conducted from a drilling ship in the Nankai Trough about 100 miles east of Osaka, was the world's first hydrate production test in deep water.

BP is also building a pair of cofferdams that could sit over the leaks like inverted funnels, with piping allowing the oil up to a drilling ship at the surface.The first of these cofferdams is already built and due to be sunk by May 7th.

There was no known method of keeping a drilling ship stationary, as there was no form of stable measurement or GPS.

But this desire may have to wait to be satisfied by a second expedition with a dedicated drill ship, the Joides Resolution.