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Noticed that as well. Some believe that a Halliburton part was at blame. Interesting...
They wound up settling lawsuits for over a billion dollars, so yeah. I read somewhere a couple weeks ago that in making the movie the producers (including Wahlburg) had to negotiate through an army of lawyers.
Shlumberger, Transocean, and Halliburton were all heavily involved. Somehow....BP....a foreign company, took almost 100% of the blame. I doubt that was fair.
Shlumberger, Transocean, and Halliburton were all heavily involved. Somehow....BP....a foreign company, took almost 100% of the blame. I doubt that was fair.
You don't get to be a "foreign" company any more when you buy/merge with an American company like Amoco. At least not in the sense to earn any pity as if they were ran over rough shod by our government.
My husband worked in o/g exploration/production for more than 35 years...but was in land/lease...went on few off shore rigs closer to coast but never worked one one...
He said the idea that TransOcean would sacrifice safety levels to,kowtow to the BP exploration engineers was not right... He said the guys owning/running the rigs rule...
Of course TO might not want to say it was their company's fault they didn't hire more people to do repair efforts to keep systems working properly...
But the fail happened because of the cement job's lack of integrity Schlumberger screwed big time and never should have left that rig w/o running that pressure test...I am sure it was part of the contract for the job because it is just part of making a well.
I was surprised that when Kurt Russell was off the rig that apparently there was no one doing his job...not a comparable senior level rig boss...
I don't think that is how it works...those guys are 3 wks on and 3 off and someone takes their job when they are gone...so someone should have been doing Markey Marks job too vs just letting everything go to hell when he was off...
My husband has worked in the oil and gas industry, including on the Gulf rigs, for nearly 40 years and is now an oil and gas consultant. He is familiar with companies associated with that particular rig and that disaster though he thankfully never worked on that rig.
What he said he heard was that Schlumberger pulled their guys OFF the rig because BP decided not to run the necessary tests so Schlumberger told their guys to leave - that's what the scuttlebutt was around here anyway.
We saw the movie yesterday and it was surprisingly emotional for both of us - really shook us both up. Though it's been 8 years or so since he worked on an offshore rig, the movie brought back a lot of memories.
Long before this particular issue, my husband had already told me that there were a few companies he would NEVER work for again, and one of them was BP.
I thought the movie was very well done and that the casting was perfect. We both really liked the music too.
Last edited by KathrynAragon; 10-16-2016 at 07:14 PM..
Shlumberger, Transocean, and Halliburton were all heavily involved. Somehow....BP....a foreign company, took almost 100% of the blame. I doubt that was fair.
What do you know about this particular event and about who was in charge of which elements and safety steps?
Just what I picked up from reading and watching a fair amount of news. Is that OK? Am I in trouble?
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Originally Posted by KathrynAragon
What do you know about this particular event and about who was in charge of which elements and safety steps?
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