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re: Fisherman's Story that witnessed the Deepwater Horizon Explosion
Posted on 5/3/10 at 1:23 pm to Kracka
Posted on 5/3/10 at 1:23 pm to Kracka
Gotcha, I was just trying to figure out exactly how much liability these guys have on their shoulders if something like this happens. Not of this magnitude obviously, but just something like it.
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Posted on 5/3/10 at 1:27 pm to lsuhunt555
Well, BP's CEO has already come out and blamed it on Transocean.
Posted on 5/3/10 at 1:29 pm to Kracka
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Well, BP's CEO has already come out and blamed it on Transocean.
they hired t.o. to get this hole drilled. but, we have to see the reports when they come out. could very well be t.o.'s fault. we will know when it comes out.
the company men on the rig don't drill the hole and they don't tell us how we should run our equipment.
Posted on 5/3/10 at 2:24 pm to lsuhunt555
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Gotcha, I was just trying to figure out exactly how much liability these guys have on their shoulders if something like this happens. Not of this magnitude obviously, but just something like it.
Mud reports are generated daily and normally given to the company man (BP), toolpusher, and derrickman. I doubt the mud engineers would bear any responsibility assuming the mud report was accurate. The ultimate responsibility is placed on the company man (BP).
Posted on 5/3/10 at 6:37 pm to rintintin
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No way they were allowed to tie up to the rig.
Why?
Federal law mandates that commercial/personal vessels have to recieve permission to enter the 500 meter safety zone around a platform. It's in place for several reasons including but not limited to:
diving operations
flowlines
anchor lines (floating semi-submersibles)
terrorist attacks
no hot-work areas (commercial vessels are rarely equipped with instinsically safe equip)
ROV activities
I've been on platforms when vessels entered the 500 meter radius unannounced and they were immediately notified via radio contact and PA announcements of their violation and advised to immediately vacate the area. Seems to me that most of them just don't know the law regarding it and comply right away with the "request" to reverse their course.
Posted on 5/3/10 at 6:44 pm to GeauxTigers0107
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My question for you is this, was there any human failure in the insufficient amount of mud (if that is indeed part of why it happened)? I know a couple of guys that do that for a living and was just wondering or if there was no way to know exactly what would have been sufficient.
They were temporarily abandoning the well. The casing was already run and the well should have been sealed off from the gas. I believe they already had a lower plug in place too. From my understanding they were preparing to set a balance plug at about 3,000 below the mud line. They would not have been concerned with mud weight at that juncture. They were likely displacing with water.
Posted on 5/3/10 at 9:22 pm to MC123
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