A shaft through the bottom of a drilling ship, oil rig, etc. for lowering and raising equipment into or from the water.
船井，月池（钻油船、塔等底部升降井，用以往水中运或从水中取设备）
Example sentencesExamples
The weather deck is 2,700 square metres in size and comprises two moon pools.
With a 40 ton crane, 40 ton Poclain swing shovel, 4 berth accommodation, 4 workshops and 2 moon pools, the contracts you can chase with such a versatile barge would pay for itself in no time at all.
This will not cause any damage to the pipe if performed in a fully controlled manner as the base of the vessel moon pool has a 7.5 metre radius
The moon pool is the hole through the bottom of a drillship that allows the drill pipe to pass through.
The vessel is equipped with 2 moon pools, 1,000 sq meters clear deck space, a 250T heave compensated crane equipped for deepwater lowering in water depths to 10,000 ft.
Definition of moon pool in US English:
moon pool
noun
A shaft through the bottom of a drilling ship, oil rig, etc. for lowering and raising equipment into or from the water.
船井，月池（钻油船、塔等底部升降井，用以往水中运或从水中取设备）
Example sentencesExamples
With a 40 ton crane, 40 ton Poclain swing shovel, 4 berth accommodation, 4 workshops and 2 moon pools, the contracts you can chase with such a versatile barge would pay for itself in no time at all.
This will not cause any damage to the pipe if performed in a fully controlled manner as the base of the vessel moon pool has a 7.5 metre radius
The vessel is equipped with 2 moon pools, 1,000 sq meters clear deck space, a 250T heave compensated crane equipped for deepwater lowering in water depths to 10,000 ft.
The moon pool is the hole through the bottom of a drillship that allows the drill pipe to pass through.
The weather deck is 2,700 square metres in size and comprises two moon pools.