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Deep Water Horizon Happened On This Day 16 Years Ago
Posted on 4/20/26 at 6:49 am
Posted on 4/20/26 at 6:49 am
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Posted on 4/20/26 at 6:51 am to BuddyRoeaux
Remember it well and rewatched the movie last night. Any baws here know some of the guys that were on the rig?
Posted on 4/20/26 at 7:01 am to BuddyRoeaux
Working the clean up was my first job out of highschool. Worked from 6 until sundown. You'd piddle around for 15 minutes and then they would make you rest for 30 minutes then piddle another 15 minutes. Would cater breakfast lunch and dinner making $30 an hour. Blank checks handed out all up and down the coast.
Posted on 4/20/26 at 7:04 am to Cregg
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Blank checks handed out all up and down the coast.
Throughout the state. A lot of boat owners made mountains of money leasing out their boats
Posted on 4/20/26 at 7:06 am to BuddyRoeaux
I spent a month wading around in the coastal marsh collecting baseline sediment samples.
It sucked.
It sucked.
Posted on 4/20/26 at 7:13 am to BuddyRoeaux
I was working at Cameron. We had so many contingency plans (equipment) being built it was crazy. We had engineers go to the BP war room on a daily basis. I know our competitors were doing the same. We were getting equipment to help with builds from same competitors and vice versa. Never seen anything like it in the oilfield. BP spared no expense to end this disaster.
Posted on 4/20/26 at 7:18 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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quote: Blank checks handed out all up and down the coast.
Throughout the state. A lot of boat owners made mountains of money leasing out their boats
Spillionaire
Posted on 4/20/26 at 7:22 am to BuddyRoeaux
Was in Venice every day for over a month covering this...crazy its 16 yrs already!
Posted on 4/20/26 at 7:23 am to Salmon
Could see the flames periodically flicker from Thunder Horse. It was a strange time. I actually landed on DH two weeks to the day before the incident.
Drilling folks just think and operate differently. I can't even imagine concerning myself with a cut in day rate, and putting my life on the line to do it. Some of them would probably put their head in an oven if that's what the company man said do. And that's basically what happened here. Chasing that completion bonus.
Drilling folks just think and operate differently. I can't even imagine concerning myself with a cut in day rate, and putting my life on the line to do it. Some of them would probably put their head in an oven if that's what the company man said do. And that's basically what happened here. Chasing that completion bonus.
Posted on 4/20/26 at 7:26 am to BuddyRoeaux
I was working for a very small, independent E&P at the time. My uncle was actually working for BP as a drilling engineer, though not offshore, but it sent the entire office scrambling.
All of the oil & gas industry started feeling the PR/political effects from this tragic incident, especially as the oil kept flowing from the wellbore.
I remember the State of Louisiana temporarily banned fishing along the SE coast, for health reasons supposedly.
All of the oil & gas industry started feeling the PR/political effects from this tragic incident, especially as the oil kept flowing from the wellbore.
I remember the State of Louisiana temporarily banned fishing along the SE coast, for health reasons supposedly.
Posted on 4/20/26 at 7:27 am to BuddyRoeaux
Still can’t figure out if John Malevich was trying to do a Cajun accent or representing some sort of foreigner?
I remember working with a guy that quit to go be a ‘consultant’ down there. Made enough money in a year to never work full time again and the guy didn’t know shite.
I remember working with a guy that quit to go be a ‘consultant’ down there. Made enough money in a year to never work full time again and the guy didn’t know shite.
This post was edited on 4/20/26 at 7:37 am
Posted on 4/20/26 at 7:28 am to Cregg
I remember sitting at the Fraternity house and seeing the news for the first time. I looked to my podnuh and said, “If there was ever a day to drop the ball, today it would be today.” I still feel bad for the families who lost their loved ones in this tragedy.
This post was edited on 4/20/26 at 7:30 am
Posted on 4/20/26 at 7:28 am to threedog79
I worked on there for 8 years. Knew many on the rig including 6 of the 11 very well.
Posted on 4/20/26 at 7:37 am to threedog79
I met Gordon Jones a week or so before the accident. We were at a crawfish boil at a mutual friend. He spent the entire time playing with his young son while his very pregnant wife sat in the shade all day. Every time I think of the accident, I think of Gordon teaching his son how to swing his little wiffle ball driver while his wife watched on. I guess his son would be old enough to post on this site by now, so if you're reading, from my brief interaction with you and your father, he was a good man.
Posted on 4/20/26 at 8:06 am to BuddyRoeaux
Mr. Blair Manuel was a damn good man in the years before that I got to know him.
I know he is missed by many.
I know he is missed by many.
Posted on 4/20/26 at 8:16 am to Salmon
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I spent a month wading around in the coastal marsh
Username checks out
Posted on 4/20/26 at 8:25 am to BuddyRoeaux
They had a thread on here about some guys fishing close to it as it was happening. Chicken would have to dig into the archives
Posted on 4/20/26 at 8:30 am to BabyTac
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Still can’t figure out if John Malevich was trying to do a Cajun accent or representing some sort of foreigner?
Kurt Russell is only one that could pronounce schlumberger correct. Might be a hot take but Malevich is just doing a James Carville impersonation and it is not so bad
Posted on 4/20/26 at 8:31 am to BuddyRoeaux
Louisiana and coastal residents put on a master class at fleecing 
Posted on 4/20/26 at 8:34 am to BuddyRoeaux
Thanks, BP!
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