re: Deepwater Horizon first watch….

I say I say I say we jus gon haff to do us a negative presshuh test

Malkovich is a great actor and Berg is a pretty good director which makes his accent choice even more confusing

The best part of the movie is an electrician or whatever Mark Wahlberg was supposed to be being heavily involved in the rig’s operations

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the one scene that really broke my immersion

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For me, it's when Mark Wahlberg, who's character is like the rig maintenance/electrician, gets off the helicopter on the rig and starts asking about the cement bond log (or something along those lines....been a minute since I've watched). He then heads up to the rig floor and starts asking about the wellbore activities with the company men and drillers. That would be like the HVAC technician in a hospital showing up to work and trying to discuss an upcoming procedure with a surgeon. Yeah, they both work in a hospital, but that's about the extent of it.

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Anyone that post here was on the rig? I’m sure there’s some good stories to share if up for it. Seemed like a disaster waiting to happen based on the movie. A lot of red flags ignored.

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I was working at Weatherford when this happened and our float equipment was on the string. It's the equipment that prevents the well from back flowing. It never converted and that was the beginning of about 7 things failing, like in any major disaster, its never one thing. Our guys told them it didn't convert (its orginally run down hole in the open position and then converts through various mechanisms, usually darts to then not allow back flow) I believe Weatherford settled for ~40MM and admitted no guilt just to be done with it.

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For me, it's when Mark Wahlberg, who's character is like the rig maintenance/electrician, gets off the helicopter on the rig and starts asking about the cement bond log (or something along those lines....been a minute since I've watched). He then heads up to the rig floor and starts asking about the wellbore activities with the company men and drillers. That would be like the HVAC technician in a hospital showing up to work and trying to discuss an upcoming procedure with a surgeon. Yeah, they both work in a hospital, but that's about the extent of it.

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I was a lowly MWD then a DD offshore and the only time we ever talked to those dudes was to plug in our skid

Every rig manager/company man/toolpusher/driller/directional/mud engineer on rigs like that would’ve told marky mark to sit down and shut up

I've heard that the shear rams in the BOP were the test rams, not the production ones and were designed for one use during the test, and should have been swapped out.

That poster always tries to do some weird boomer mixed with SFP shtick

The only problem is he is super dumb

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a movie that was about an event that wrecked the economy of an entire metro area in your state for an extended period of time

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What "metro area" economy was wrecked by an offshore oil rig explosion??????? If anything the people on the coast made good money by being part of the clean up.

The idea that people responsible for the red flags at plants are "the guys in a double wide in Geismar with 2 Jetskis and a $70k truck out front." is idiotic. They have nice houses to go along with the Jetskis and $90k trucks.

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The best part of the movie is an electrician or whatever Mark Wahlberg was supposed to be being heavily involved in the rig’s operations

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This was the thing that drove me crazy. The electrician hardly knows where a rig floor is and damn sure wouldn’t be involved in the downhole operations.