I would add one item to Mr. Horne's suggestions. Worker involvement in operational safety. Instead of workers being totally schedule driven and told "Don't use safety as a crutch" (for schedules slipping) every individual should be encouraged and rewarded for noting unsafe conditions and recommending safety improvement. The workers are closest to the operation and always know when things aren't right. In the long run this saves lives and profits.
that's pretty much obvious. that's exactly the problem. that this costs money. and BP didn'T want to spend money. it's like you have said: BP should have been nicer. obviously. But the how do you force a big company like that to carry about safety and human lives? that is the question? if they can point at subcontractors, probably treaten them with termination of contract, and ovoid or minimise requirements anywhere possible, how do you force them to still keep those regulations or even get better at them theirsleves? its big money against regulations: the same story everywhere. what body would impose those regulations on a multi national company? in what court would they be tried if they break any of them? how do you give power to subcontractors against the pressure of giants like BP? those are just just a portion of the probable valid questions.
The problem is that corporations all seek immediate/short term gains which probably has at least something to do with the musical chairs that corporate executives play amongst companies while cashing in on the stock options. What I think should happen is when any CEO (or any board or executive if a company), banker, or politician is found to have blatantly caused suffering and/or death to people is to hang them on national television. It may be extreme but you would see a change pretty damn fast.
@@brianallison1913 ... or use a guillotine/guillotines ... In fact, a thought crossed my mind: aside from using the 'shorter' version, with a much heavier blade (especially with the steels we have, like 4140), aside from a forge welded blades, made from, say, 1065, 1080, 1095, and 30n20, instead of 'just' the head, have an additional two, for the arms stretched out -as they do for lethal injections - and another for both legs, tied together, and as close to the pelvis as possible. Using electronics with millisecond impulse, once all is carefully placed in a precisely marked postion, and energised, hitting a switch, causing all four to 'fire' at the same time ... Sounds borderline insane, but, if you're going to make a truly public spectacle, of those individuals, then 'just' hanging may not be enough, especially for those whom are even willing to pay decent seats, and so forth ... ... dismembering by guillotine, as per above, maybe is closer to the psychological effect you want to create, especially among those, whom, if guilty, and their appeal is denied you wish to be publicly hanged; also the aforementioned method is closer to the harsher hanged, drawn, and quarterd ... but without the mess, and effort ...
When the negative test was preformed it failed showing 1400 psi on the drill pipe pressure gage. Proven test tried and true. Well control problem indicated! Next step immediately close a variable ram after calculating space out. The rams would close at this time it would be far before the situation became critical. Well successful secured! Then take as long as needed to decide if your stripping in to squeeze cement or whatever. Never disregard a failed test. Never disregard a failed test and try to find a justification to eliminate a failed test because it's inconvenient that there is a well control problem. It's not just going away because you secretly test against a closed value, or any other things you do or say just won't fix the problem and justify it away. If you don't take care of it right away a 10 bbls kick turns to 30bbls kick turns to 300bbl kick and then you get all the unscheduled events equipment failures that go with a uncontrolled release of gas influx into the wellbore, no surprises there. That's why they call it loosing control of the well. Transocean was always careful not to point fingers at anyone when we had accidents, but considering what to teach us so we could learn from them then move forward working safer with more confidents and integrity than before. Did we go to the moon with no sacrifices? Did we not know how dangerous our job was each and every time we hug the kids kissed the wife goodbye? I did. Then I would go walk the deck with MEN on the open ocean. My heart goes out to those who where affected by this tragedy. My heart will always bleed Blue, Thank You Transocean for the ethics and integrity you bestowed in me as a young man as I know this tragedy affected more hearts than anyone could imagine and many where shallow in projecting a wider range of empathy. R.I.P. my brothers in Blue.
So many questions wish I could ask. 1st He said they don't check the BSR like they don't check airbags in a car. This is not true, the BOP BSR are checked every 2 weeks along with the annulars and other rams in the BOP. 2nd who was the Wellhead rep and and how much weight down did they have down when they landed the casing before they started cementing. After the cement job they have to install the Seal Assembly and I've never heard anywhere where they talk about the Running tool of the casing or Seal Assembly. (knowing the size of the casing would help too) Lots of people I believe were thrown under the bus in the incident and the people who really know what happened went into the bush like Homer Simpson.
learning from mistakes is one of the fastest way to make progress/improvements. Airplanes 30 years ago also weren't what they are today, and sadly it's the accidents that made them better & safer
It's not just that, it's the aviation industry's commitment to safety, the stringent regulations and things like airworthiness directives that mandate that operators take actions to immediately reduce the risk of accidents during an investigation (e.g. when A380s were required to have far more thorough testing done to the engines until the precise cause of Quantas 32's engine failure was determined), and the overall culture. Commercial aviation is safety-first at all times. Every part of a plane is tested and tested regularly. Every few years they go through a D-check where they strip the entire plane down to its bare bones and inspect every square centimetre for damage, including fractures invisible to the human eye. Whenever something goes even _slightly_ wrong, an incident report is filed, the causes investigated, and corrective measures either recommended or mandated. Go-around due to runway incursion? Incident reports from all involved, improvements made, the best example being runway status lights as an addition to reduce them. From an outside observer's perspective, there is nothing like that kind of culture in oil drilling. Not even close.
I think it is very disrespectful, especially with her reading note cards, that the lady at the beginning couldn't correctly quote the number of lives lost, 11.
BP is notorious for cost-cutting w no regard for safety. Don't know about Transocean. I thought 11 were lost; this MC said "5 killed, 17 injured". ? There were 11 missing at 1st muster, during bailout effort. 11 helmet memorials were placed. ?
People don`t seem to comprehend how difficult and expensive it is to FIND then retrieve oil from such an eminence depth, multi millions are spent that are dry holes ,the pressure is on all involved this time it appears the equipment failed wrong decisions were made instead of putting the brakes on and men lost their lives i,t was tragic
Yea she said 5 died, 17 injured, but that was corrected by the guy later. I've heard the number five mentioned before, I seem to recall that being the number of drillmen killed and the others were not on the deck at the time of the explosion.
I'm the designer of the caphead spool that stopped the deep horizon's macondo wells rogue leak. I'm an employee on Alaska's North slope oilfields in Prudhoe Bay (current 2019). I'm a mechanic. But also have over 30 years experience in pipeline repair and maintenance. June 20, 2010 I was watching news coverage of the horizon crew using underwater robotics to cut bent sections of the line away and left several feet sticking out of the seafloor. N inches from the pipe end was a flange. I designed my caphead spool that could be lowered onto the well pipe and use locking lugs or wings to lock behind the flange securing the caphead to the line. At the bottom of the caphead spool used hydraulic chevron seals to use the well pressure to seal the leak. The flow from the well could be diverted to the surface and collected into a barge or tanker. Once flow control established using a downhole pump could over pressure the flow and inject the cement/ slurry mix, leaving the caphead spool emplaced until the cement/ slurry mix had set up sealing the macondo wells rogue leak. I was told later that horizon had a helpline number and were asking for assistance ideas. I called and chatted with the "horizon helpline" personnel and submitted my caphead design by zipping. I neglected to file for a patent for my design and was emailed back by the helpline personnel and told my design was unusable. I tried calling the horizon helpline to find the helpline had been discovered. Several weeks later watching news coverage as my design caphead was used to stop the macondo wells leak. Basically I had been slapped in the face and brushed off. I wasn't given any credit for my design or compensation. I still have copies of my design I had submitted as well as emails back and forth from horizon's helpline. I do have a BPCLAIM CASE # and looked for a lawyer who could help but decided to wait until the corrupt Obama administration was out of office to voice my opinion. After 9 years I checked and the same blowout prevention valve system is still in use on most ocean based oil production drill platforms. On this type of "bop" system the annular valve failed, due to the seat coming apart and not sealing. The hydraulic rams failed to cut/smash the line as the pipe was out of alignment. This type of blowout prevention valve cannot be tested periodically to verify proper operation and failed when activated. If the bop system worked would still leave the well inaccessible to repair or abandoning. Production stopped and unable to perform repairs without taking the risk of creating another out of control leak. The bop can't isolate pressure in order for repairs go be done and can't be tested. I do have designs for a safer bop system that can be repaired and pressure isolated if tests verify the bop is inoperable. After repairs are completed the well can return to production. My designs will not be for free and will be patented. I also have plans to start my own deep water repair company specializing in ocean based oil production drill platforms as well as marketing,my bop systems. The price in upgrades will be alot less than the deep horizon's leak at the 100 billion dollar mark and rising. "007".
So, did you ever get your money for your designs? Did you ever go into business for yourself as a contractor for these underwater "Renters"? And did you use heavily medicated Antibacterial ointment from waiting 9 years from constantly picking at that scab until you let it go? Just curious.
They were cheap about safety equipment and American politicians let them get away with poor safety conditions. End of story. it hardly needs a committee or one that meets for 3 damn days!
Good lord they are insufferable "He advises policy at the Federal Lobby for bleh bleh sciences, he's a Senior Fellow at the snooty mcTooty institute for Yuppee research and had advised the United Nations council on uppity old farts" lol
Yes, there were a lot of measurements that could have been taken to prevent the accident. But to me there was one simple action that if it had been taken, then the accident wouldn't happen, which is actually diverting the influx out of the vessel.
Very informative and much more specific. I'm coming off the CSPAN hearings(replay) on Capitol Hill and had so many questions. Thanks very much Professor for your very professional and in depth analysis.
Sorry, but this presentation was clear as mud. An endless supply of jargon, as if he was talking to an audience that knows what a "cement job" is, and why it's needed. Utter disinterest in the topic being presented: here is a prof who is bored with what he knows, but is too young to retire. Slides are completely unreadable; no explanation of what the slides are showing. With people like this in charge, no wonder we have problems. Sheesh. And this is Stanford? My respect for Stanford has plummeted. A lot.
If a contractor needs a special piece of equipment, how do they get it? Do you rent (rig tongs) and get invoice to pay for it or do you have to have the money right away? i am being asked to do a transfer so he can get this things or him contract runs up. Is this true do you need the money asap. Please help.
The Professor is honest and unemotional after a year of review. Corners were cut somewhere for profit and paid at the pumps so no loss to the limited liability of corporations spread out to minimize insurance risk. The fault is that even a freakish accident like this one is replaced by profiteers on shore too. It's a tough call.
The speaker discuss his views with the audience using powerpoint slides and a laser pointer. On the CZcams presentation the laser pointer is absent which makes following/understanding the talk extremely difficult.
This presentation/video would be so much better if the quality of the slideshow slides was better so that I could actually read what the slides say. What the hell. Why are the slides illegible. I’m on mobile and apparently can’t turn up the video quality and I’m wondering if it’s just me and some video quality setting but if not that is kinda unacceptable like what the actual fuck. What is the point of this well put together presentation and everything if I can’t follow along to the best of my ability bc the slides are un-readable and blurry Edit: I’m talking about the graphics and diagrams taken from BP and Halliburton’s investigative reports and that stuff. I can read the stuff that he wrote in powerpoint
6th July 1988, Piper Alpha Platform. Bad work practices in the failure to report current conditions leads to the platform going bang. Inadequate safety systems and emergency protocols lead to 167 deaths. Public enquiry (Cullen Report) 1990, makes recommendations on safety and good work practice. 20th April 2010, roughly 20 years later, lessons forgotten, renewal of bad work practices and neglect of platform safety systems lead to 11 more people being killed. In sad conclusion, lessons will have been learned form this, however give it another 20 years or so and another platform will experience some form of catastrophic failure. This will of course lead to yet another enquiry in which lessons will be learned once again. I look at what happened on DWH and I think, "even though they will have lost millions in the destruction of the platform, millions in lost oil revenues, millions in the environmental clean up and millions in the inevitable fines and 11 people killed, at least they where able to save 125,000 by not carrying out the necessary safety tests."
@@petermartyn9509 Absolutely. If you ever get the chance to peruse the Cullen Report, it makes for some interesting reading. The only issue is that unless you can get a copy from a public library because the internet regards the information as classified. Or at least it was when I had to do a full report on the event.
Are you saying that the 20" pipe (riser) goes all the way to the bottom of the sea? That is not the way it has been depicted in many diagrams? The 20" riser goes to the BOP and below the BOP is the drilling pipe that goes to bottom of sea and drilling pipe is only about 8" diameter. Am I right or am I wrong?
@@denysvlasenko1865 Obvious, that was not the the intent of my question, - does the 20" riser go all way from platform to BOP? Not to 18,000 feet at end of drilling or in 'middle of water' ???
“In summation, don’t be too hard on BP and the other companies aboard the Deep Water Horizon because the job they were doing is difficult and expensive. This concludes my TedTalk.”
We just designed a piece of equipment that will stop this type of thing from ever happening again. It's called the CDS Blowout Preventer and it's no joke. This patented blowout preventer we designed requires NO human intervention! It's also 100% reversible once it's engaged so you don't have to "cut and run" if it triggers. This gives time for the drill rig crew to make a decision to engage the large blow out preventers (Piston/Ram based) to shut the well off permanently. If they don't wish to, you can reverse the CDS Blowout Preventer in less than 1 day and proceed with operations as normal. Right now, no one wants to press a button that causes the 60-foot tall blowout preventers in place (which in my opinion usually doesn't work as planned for one reason or another) and cost the company up to 1 billion dollars spent on something they just closed permanently. If those same people had time to discuss the kick that occurred and our product stopped from blowing out the well, they could make an informed decision as how to proceed. No one wants to be the guy that just killed the prospect of the well and cost the company a ton of money by making a 1 to 3 second decision to engage the large blowout preventers without someone higher up in the company saying it's ok to do that. The CDS blowout preventer gives that time to the drill rig crew and allows the company to make the final decision to shut it down! Nothing like this has ever been designed before and we are proud to have completed design and production on the unit. The CDS Blowout Preventer works in conjunction with the large 60-foot tall BOP's that have to be installed in all deep sea drilling operations! It doesn't replace it. However, it does give peace of mind knowing that something is protecting the crew, the ship, and the earth/ocean/ & wildlife that's automatic, uses no electrical current, doesn't require any human intervention or monitoring at all, and is fully reversible once engaged! I'm sure you will agree that this is exactly what the oil industry is in need of and now it's available. We have some crude test videos and explanations of how it works here on CZcams under our account of CDS Blowout Preventer. Stop by and have a look today and let's not forget the lives lost in the BP Macondo Blowout upon the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig on April 20th, 2010.
wtf? you can open and close the rams on the bop in like 5 seconds. if the driller sees a gain and is in doubt he will shut in the well and do a flowcheck. if well is not flowing he can open the bop and keep drilling in like 5 minutes. the shear ram is the last thing you close.
Three things you will NEVER do..1. Use wind and solar to move a fully loaded freight train across Canada or USA 2. Use wind and solar to move a cargo ship across any ocean. 3. Use wind and solar to replace ANY product (fertilizer, fabric, paints & dyes, plastics, synthetic rubber, pharmaceuticals, etc. -list too long for CZcams-) made in the petro-chemistry sector. About HALF of oil & gas go to produce actual FUEL for any purpose.
Question: If hydrocarbons are not supposed to enter the well bore (also, what's a well bore?) and then not supposed to enter the riser pipe, well, how are you supposed to get the oil and gas out of the well? You know, the entire point of this operation. I don't know anything about this industry as you can tell, but i guess you don't do what an ignorant like me would do, which is from a hole and collect that which squirts out.
Probably not but there are many things we currently can't do efficiently or not at all with the safer renewable technologies. We should use safer tech for as much as possible though.
Let's get real. Everyone in the business knows that the Schlumberger guys asked to get off 'cause they saw what was coming. Time and money over safety leads to disaster.
The oil in the Gulf could have been salvaged, See Oil Spill Freeze Salvage. The future is to freeze the perimeter, clump and salvage the oil. Oil can also be herded away from wetlands and onto sandy shores.
What this tells me is that BP is run and operated by a bunch of people how can not even do an addition on a pocket calculator. My dad used to work on oil platforms and he told me about a texan called wally. He used to count how many pipes they put down the hole using matches because he could not count using numbers!
What's with the not so respectful comments near the end? I thought this was a lecture, not a political townhall. Also they didn't seem to understand what he was saying, like the guy saying that he made it sound like 12 hour shifts were the problem when he never said or implied that.
I have to say, I lost a fair bit trust in what they had to say, and the 'investigation' and 'interim report' they have completed, when not able to quote the number dead. Not only that, any accident investigation usually takes a significant amount more time than 'a few months'. Such a tragic series of events, ultimately caused by corporate negligence and greed, leading to the loss of 11 lives and impact on countless others. An avoidable and ultimately predictable consequence to the short cuts of people who would, in all likelihood, have never stepped on the rig. Everyone on the rig deserved better.
Cement is a powder used in mix (with gravel and other things) to make concrete. They are not the same thing and cement on its own wouldn't hold much! .. for "Joe" the homeowner it is ok to mix these two terms like they were the same but for someone from Stanford to not know such fundamental thing makes you question their other "findings"...
There are cement additives that have been developed to allow the use of Portland cement in many different oil and gas well operations. In an attempt to formulate the appropriate cement slurry for any cementing job, the right additive must selected and the right quantity must be added.There are different types of cement additives developed to allow the use of Portland cement in many different oil and gas well applications. BP hired a top oilfield service company to test the strength of cement linings on the Deepwater Horizon's well, but sent the firm's workers home 11 hours before the rig exploded without performing a final check.
@davidthefat No, the problem is not in the controlling of either the chemical making of hydrogen tritium and deuterium neither in fusing it with laser or magnetic fields. The problem is making the process EFFECTIVE. It will take many years until the problems regarding nuclear fusion are solved. I love nuclear fusion. I wish we had it ready. The world needs 2 inventions now. The space elevator with nanotubes and hydrogen fusion power plants!
@davidthefat : oddly enough, even as an environmentalist... there is good reason to look even to fission for power... it would be bad to do for centuries, but to get us from oil to more sustainable sources with less toxic waste would probably be a lot greener than getting there on gas and oil it seems. However, the main solution is don't let a bunch of greedy assholes run whatever it is you do use to get massive amounts of energy.
If someone whats to make money from the clean up and other shit this will happen again .You need to investigate who made money on this accident and jail those people.
as an engineer who works for one of the companies deeply involved in the deepwater horizon incident (not for BP)... i just am constantly /facepalming over most of the rhetoric involved in the "discussion" revolving around this incident and the greater conversation as a whole pertaining to energy, the environment and natural resources.
@@weaksohyeah it's always interesting to see someone reply to a comment left years ago that has passed so far out of memory I don't even remember watching the video.
Lots of video’s on what went wrong but not much details of the actual “oil leak point”and the many failed attempts to stop or slow the oil leaking I watched the underwater tv news coverage at that time of the riser pipe laying on the seabed spilling crude oil for 87 days after the rig collapsed and wondered why the world’s oil industry does not have the specific riser diameter purpose built “robotic hydraulic crimping tool “ that could at least dramatically slow even stop the crude oil spill “temporarily” , as to buy time to plan a permanent solution.
No amount of engineering design prowess can prevent an accident if those using the tools and protocols so carefully designed decide to ignore the proper use and maintenance of those tools and ignore the protocols.
Jose Rea I don't believe it was the rig workers for one minute, it was business decisions to cut corners. The working man is always blamed in big business.
They had plenty of time to realize that they had a blow out on their hands.but failed to..The CEO was not running the rig, it was the working man..and he fucked up...
@@DynamicSeq yea but when the working men hit their safety procedures, they did not work. they did as they were trained and there were other failures. same as chernobyl. when told to perform action X in an emergency, and then performed action X, but action X fails. it is not the working mans fault.
@@gregoryeisenhut243 WTF...So if I train you for a job...Spend time and money to train you in safety..And you flat out ignore that training..Then you say it's not your fault ??.. At Chernobyl no equipment failed, the safety protocol said no more that 183 rods was to be retracted..They pulled 193..Well knowing that it was against protocol...And you say we don't blame them..I hope you work alone and far away from others, because with that attitude you are going to get somebody killed....
The takeaway from this is an old one, the bridge will stand, the airplane will fly and the blowout preventer will work. It's totally common for those who claim authority on a subject to reassure the rest of us with "you can trust me, I'm an expert, I know what I'm doing". I understand that they really do believe in their own infallibility, but why do the rest of us continue trust them with our lives?? The perfect illustration of this is the emergency shut down that cut the fuel supply to the engine while natural gas poured into the intakes. The expert that designed the shut down is also an idiot.
At the very beginning it was said that 5 people died, 11 people actually died in the accident.
I would add one item to Mr. Horne's suggestions. Worker involvement in operational safety. Instead of workers being totally schedule driven and told "Don't use safety as a crutch" (for schedules slipping) every individual should be encouraged and rewarded for noting unsafe conditions and recommending safety improvement. The workers are closest to the operation and always know when things aren't right. In the long run this saves lives and profits.
What world are you from?
that's pretty much obvious. that's exactly the problem. that this costs money. and BP didn'T want to spend money. it's like you have said: BP should have been nicer. obviously. But the how do you force a big company like that to carry about safety and human lives? that is the question? if they can point at subcontractors, probably treaten them with termination of contract, and ovoid or minimise requirements anywhere possible, how do you force them to still keep those regulations or even get better at them theirsleves? its big money against regulations: the same story everywhere. what body would impose those regulations on a multi national company? in what court would they be tried if they break any of them? how do you give power to subcontractors against the pressure of giants like BP? those are just just a portion of the probable valid questions.
The problem is that corporations all seek immediate/short term gains which probably has at least something to do with the musical chairs that corporate executives play amongst companies while cashing in on the stock options. What I think should happen is when any CEO (or any board or executive if a company), banker, or politician is found to have blatantly caused suffering and/or death to people is to hang them on national television. It may be extreme but you would see a change pretty damn fast.
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... or use a guillotine/guillotines ...
In fact, a thought crossed my mind: aside from using the 'shorter' version, with a much heavier blade (especially with the steels we have, like 4140), aside from a forge welded blades, made from, say, 1065, 1080, 1095, and 30n20, instead of 'just' the head, have an additional two, for the arms stretched out -as they do for lethal injections - and another for both legs, tied together, and as close to the pelvis as possible. Using electronics with millisecond impulse, once all is carefully placed in a precisely marked postion, and energised, hitting a switch, causing all four to 'fire' at the same time ...
Sounds borderline insane, but, if you're going to make a truly public spectacle, of those individuals, then 'just' hanging may not be enough, especially for those whom are even willing to pay decent seats, and so forth ...
... dismembering by guillotine, as per above, maybe is closer to the psychological effect you want to create, especially among those, whom, if guilty, and their appeal is denied you wish to be publicly hanged; also the aforementioned method is closer to the harsher hanged, drawn, and quarterd ... but without the mess, and effort ...
STOP WORK AITHORITY.
CALL COAST GAURD AND LET THEM KNOW THAT YOUR ARE BEING HELD ON THE FACILITY AGINST YOUR WILL IN A HOSTILE AND UNSAFE CONDITIONS.
When the negative test was preformed it failed showing 1400 psi on the drill pipe pressure gage. Proven test tried and true.
Well control problem indicated!
Next step immediately close a variable ram after calculating space out. The rams would close at this time it would be far before the situation became critical.
Well successful secured!
Then take as long as needed to decide if your stripping in to squeeze cement or whatever.
Never disregard a failed test.
Never disregard a failed test and try to find a justification to eliminate a failed test because it's inconvenient that there is a well control problem. It's not just going away because you secretly test against a closed value, or any other things you do or say just won't fix the problem and justify it away.
If you don't take care of it right away a 10 bbls kick turns to 30bbls kick turns to 300bbl kick and then you get all the unscheduled events equipment failures that go with a uncontrolled release of gas influx into the wellbore, no surprises there. That's why they call it loosing control of the well. Transocean was always careful not to point fingers at anyone when we had accidents, but considering what to teach us so we could learn from them then move forward working safer with more confidents and integrity than before. Did we go to the moon with no sacrifices? Did we not know how dangerous our job was each and every time we hug the kids kissed the wife goodbye? I did. Then I would go walk the deck with MEN on the open ocean.
My heart goes out to those who where affected by this tragedy.
My heart will always bleed Blue,
Thank You Transocean for the ethics and integrity you bestowed in me as a young man as I know this tragedy affected more hearts than anyone could imagine and many where shallow in projecting a wider range of empathy.
R.I.P. my brothers in Blue.
A-MF-MEN!
So many questions wish I could ask. 1st He said they don't check the BSR like they don't check airbags in a car. This is not true, the BOP BSR are checked every 2 weeks along with the annulars and other rams in the BOP. 2nd who was the Wellhead rep and and how much weight down did they have down when they landed the casing before they started cementing. After the cement job they have to install the Seal Assembly and I've never heard anywhere where they talk about the Running tool of the casing or Seal Assembly. (knowing the size of the casing would help too) Lots of people I believe were thrown under the bus in the incident and the people who really know what happened went into the bush like Homer Simpson.
The video starts at 11:22...
learning from mistakes is one of the fastest way to make progress/improvements. Airplanes 30 years ago also weren't what they are today, and sadly it's the accidents that made them better & safer
It's not just that, it's the aviation industry's commitment to safety, the stringent regulations and things like airworthiness directives that mandate that operators take actions to immediately reduce the risk of accidents during an investigation (e.g. when A380s were required to have far more thorough testing done to the engines until the precise cause of Quantas 32's engine failure was determined), and the overall culture. Commercial aviation is safety-first at all times. Every part of a plane is tested and tested regularly. Every few years they go through a D-check where they strip the entire plane down to its bare bones and inspect every square centimetre for damage, including fractures invisible to the human eye.
Whenever something goes even _slightly_ wrong, an incident report is filed, the causes investigated, and corrective measures either recommended or mandated. Go-around due to runway incursion? Incident reports from all involved, improvements made, the best example being runway status lights as an addition to reduce them.
From an outside observer's perspective, there is nothing like that kind of culture in oil drilling. Not even close.
Remarkable, Thank You Professor.
I think it is very disrespectful, especially with her reading note cards, that the lady at the beginning couldn't correctly quote the number of lives lost, 11.
Super interesting when you saw the documentation and the movie.
BP is notorious for cost-cutting w no regard for safety. Don't know about Transocean.
I thought 11 were lost; this MC said "5 killed, 17 injured". ?
There were 11 missing at 1st muster, during bailout effort.
11 helmet memorials were placed. ?
Skip the first ten minutes!
People don`t seem to comprehend how difficult and expensive it is to FIND then retrieve oil from such an eminence depth, multi millions are spent that are dry holes ,the pressure is on all involved this time it appears the equipment failed wrong decisions were made instead of putting the brakes on and men lost their lives i,t was tragic
11 people died i think i heard her say 5
Yea she said 5 died, 17 injured, but that was corrected by the guy later. I've heard the number five mentioned before, I seem to recall that being the number of drillmen killed and the others were not on the deck at the time of the explosion.
What the hell was she thinking...she is a dean, hosting the event and didnt know 11 were killed...moron
Charlie Abater...pretty positive it was 11 killed. I’ve seen that in about every spot I’ve looked or have heard.
2 assistant drillers 3 floorhands 1 derrikhand 1 driller 1 crane operator 2 mud engineers and 1 senior tool pusher
I'm the designer of the caphead spool that stopped the deep horizon's macondo wells rogue leak. I'm an employee on Alaska's North slope oilfields in Prudhoe Bay (current 2019). I'm a mechanic. But also have over 30 years experience in pipeline repair and maintenance. June 20, 2010 I was watching news coverage of the horizon crew using underwater robotics to cut bent sections of the line away and left several feet sticking out of the seafloor. N inches from the pipe end was a flange. I designed my caphead spool that could be lowered onto the well pipe and use locking lugs or wings to lock behind the flange securing the caphead to the line. At the bottom of the caphead spool used hydraulic chevron seals to use the well pressure to seal the leak. The flow from the well could be diverted to the surface and collected into a barge or tanker. Once flow control established using a downhole pump could over pressure the flow and inject the cement/ slurry mix, leaving the caphead spool emplaced until the cement/ slurry mix had set up sealing the macondo wells rogue leak. I was told later that horizon had a helpline number and were asking for assistance ideas. I called and chatted with the "horizon helpline" personnel and submitted my caphead design by zipping. I neglected to file for a patent for my design and was emailed back by the helpline personnel and told my design was unusable. I tried calling the horizon helpline to find the helpline had been discovered. Several weeks later watching news coverage as my design caphead was used to stop the macondo wells leak. Basically I had been slapped in the face and brushed off. I wasn't given any credit for my design or compensation. I still have copies of my design I had submitted as well as emails back and forth from horizon's helpline. I do have a BPCLAIM CASE # and looked for a lawyer who could help but decided to wait until the corrupt Obama administration was out of office to voice my opinion. After 9 years I checked and the same blowout prevention valve system is still in use on most ocean based oil production drill platforms. On this type of "bop" system the annular valve failed, due to the seat coming apart and not sealing. The hydraulic rams failed to cut/smash the line as the pipe was out of alignment. This type of blowout prevention valve cannot be tested periodically to verify proper operation and failed when activated. If the bop system worked would still leave the well inaccessible to repair or abandoning. Production stopped and unable to perform repairs without taking the risk of creating another out of control leak. The bop can't isolate pressure in order for repairs go be done and can't be tested. I do have designs for a safer bop system that can be repaired and pressure isolated if tests verify the bop is inoperable. After repairs are completed the well can return to production. My designs will not be for free and will be patented. I also have plans to start my own deep water repair company specializing in ocean based oil production drill platforms as well as marketing,my bop systems. The price in upgrades will be alot less than the deep horizon's leak at the 100 billion dollar mark and rising. "007".
So, did you ever get your money for your designs? Did you ever go into business for yourself as a contractor for these underwater "Renters"? And did you use heavily medicated Antibacterial ointment from waiting 9 years from constantly picking at that scab until you let it go? Just curious.
They were cheap about safety equipment and American politicians let them get away with poor safety conditions. End of story. it hardly needs a committee or one that meets for 3 damn days!
Thanks , you just saved me an hour and a half of time
You know nothing.
Polly Gallo You F...ing Brilliant! SMH
Where is the second lecture? - And in what video does the question: "What are the long-term consequences" get answered?
impressive knowledge.
An excellent presentation, Proff. Horne!
MoGamBo!!!
(John) Stuart Clark ex AUTC
Working on my open channel flow homework, and after watching Deep Water Horizon, I am here.
this is the best channel on yt, not saying much, but it's really good even on a better scale than yt offers.
11 people died, not 5. 200 million plus gallons spilled not 2 million. Some information was not to-date
if you skip to 11:15 it skips both introductions.
Good lord they are insufferable "He advises policy at the Federal Lobby for bleh bleh sciences, he's a Senior Fellow at the snooty mcTooty institute for Yuppee research and had advised the United Nations council on uppity old farts" lol
Five? Double that, 11 people died.
It actually killed eleven people not five as she stated in the beginning!!
Yes, there were a lot of measurements that could have been taken to prevent the accident. But to me there was one simple action that if it had been taken, then the accident wouldn't happen, which is actually diverting the influx out of the vessel.
Very informative and much more specific. I'm coming off the CSPAN hearings(replay) on Capitol Hill and had so many questions. Thanks very much Professor for your very professional and in depth analysis.
Sorry, but this presentation was clear as mud. An endless supply of jargon, as if he was talking to an audience that knows what a "cement job" is, and why it's needed. Utter disinterest in the topic being presented: here is a prof who is bored with what he knows, but is too young to retire. Slides are completely unreadable; no explanation of what the slides are showing. With people like this in charge, no wonder we have problems. Sheesh. And this is Stanford? My respect for Stanford has plummeted. A lot.
If a contractor needs a special piece of equipment, how do they get it? Do you rent (rig tongs) and get invoice to pay for it or do you have to have the money right away? i am being asked to do a transfer so he can get this things or him contract runs up. Is this true do you need the money asap. Please help.
The Professor is honest and unemotional after a year of review. Corners were cut somewhere for profit and paid at the pumps so no loss to the limited liability of corporations spread out to minimize insurance risk. The fault is that even a freakish accident like this one is replaced by profiteers on shore too. It's a tough call.
Thanks!
The speaker discuss his views with the audience using powerpoint slides and a laser pointer. On the CZcams presentation the laser pointer is absent which makes following/understanding the talk extremely difficult.
Excellent Used ROV Hot Stabs Many Times
This presentation/video would be so much better if the quality of the slideshow slides was better so that I could actually read what the slides say. What the hell. Why are the slides illegible. I’m on mobile and apparently can’t turn up the video quality and I’m wondering if it’s just me and some video quality setting but if not that is kinda unacceptable like what the actual fuck. What is the point of this well put together presentation and everything if I can’t follow along to the best of my ability bc the slides are un-readable and blurry
Edit: I’m talking about the graphics and diagrams taken from BP and Halliburton’s investigative reports and that stuff. I can read the stuff that he wrote in powerpoint
Aside from that, very informative lecture, thank you to this guy and stanford.
6th July 1988, Piper Alpha Platform. Bad work practices in the failure to report current conditions leads to the platform going bang. Inadequate safety systems and emergency protocols lead to 167 deaths.
Public enquiry (Cullen Report) 1990, makes recommendations on safety and good work practice.
20th April 2010, roughly 20 years later, lessons forgotten, renewal of bad work practices and neglect of platform safety systems lead to 11 more people being killed.
In sad conclusion, lessons will have been learned form this, however give it another 20 years or so and another platform will experience some form of catastrophic failure. This will of course lead to yet another enquiry in which lessons will be learned once again.
I look at what happened on DWH and I think, "even though they will have lost millions in the destruction of the platform, millions in lost oil revenues, millions in the environmental clean up and millions in the inevitable fines and 11 people killed, at least they where able to save 125,000 by not carrying out the necessary safety tests."
Mate. The bottom line and fact the other two platforms kept feeding oil to piper for 2.5 he's after first explosion
@@petermartyn9509 Absolutely. If you ever get the chance to peruse the Cullen Report, it makes for some interesting reading. The only issue is that unless you can get a copy from a public library because the internet regards the information as classified. Or at least it was when I had to do a full report on the event.
Skip to 0:05:36 to hear the lecture without all the introductions.
How to prevent it to a proper pressure test and let the cement cure
thanks
Are you saying that the 20" pipe (riser) goes all the way to the bottom of the sea? That is not the way it has been depicted in many diagrams? The 20" riser goes to the BOP and below the BOP is the drilling pipe that goes to bottom of sea and drilling pipe is only about 8" diameter. Am I right or am I wrong?
The BOP is on the bottom of the sea, not somewhere in the middle of the water.
@@denysvlasenko1865 Obvious, that was not the the intent of my question, - does the 20" riser go all way from platform to BOP? Not to 18,000 feet at end of drilling or in 'middle of water' ???
@@richardnailhistorical3445 20" is the diameter. Google a offshore drilling diagram and see if that makes sense
“In summation, don’t be too hard on BP and the other companies aboard the Deep Water Horizon because the job they were doing is difficult and expensive. This concludes my TedTalk.”
As far as I can tell, shift rotations were a big factor in Piper Alpha but not Deepwater Horizon.
We just designed a piece of equipment that will stop this type of thing from ever happening again. It's called the CDS Blowout Preventer and it's no joke. This patented blowout preventer we designed requires NO human intervention! It's also 100% reversible once it's engaged so you don't have to "cut and run" if it triggers. This gives time for the drill rig crew to make a decision to engage the large blow out preventers (Piston/Ram based) to shut the well off permanently. If they don't wish to, you can reverse the CDS Blowout Preventer in less than 1 day and proceed with operations as normal. Right now, no one wants to press a button that causes the 60-foot tall blowout preventers in place (which in my opinion usually doesn't work as planned for one reason or another) and cost the company up to 1 billion dollars spent on something they just closed permanently. If those same people had time to discuss the kick that occurred and our product stopped from blowing out the well, they could make an informed decision as how to proceed. No one wants to be the guy that just killed the prospect of the well and cost the company a ton of money by making a 1 to 3 second decision to engage the large blowout preventers without someone higher up in the company saying it's ok to do that.
The CDS blowout preventer gives that time to the drill rig crew and allows the company to make the final decision to shut it down! Nothing like this has ever been designed before and we are proud to have completed design and production on the unit. The CDS Blowout Preventer works in conjunction with the large 60-foot tall BOP's that have to be installed in all deep sea drilling operations! It doesn't replace it. However, it does give peace of mind knowing that something is protecting the crew, the ship, and the earth/ocean/ & wildlife that's automatic, uses no electrical current, doesn't require any human intervention or monitoring at all, and is fully reversible once engaged! I'm sure you will agree that this is exactly what the oil industry is in need of and now it's available. We have some crude test videos and explanations of how it works here on CZcams under our account of CDS Blowout Preventer. Stop by and have a look today and let's not forget the lives lost in the BP Macondo Blowout upon the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig on April 20th, 2010.
wtf? you can open and close the rams on the bop in like 5 seconds. if the driller sees a gain and is in doubt he will shut in the well and do a flowcheck. if well is not flowing he can open the bop and keep drilling in like 5 minutes.
the shear ram is the last thing you close.
Turlitz wow I am very impressed did you yourself help work on the new cds boo
Did she say “killed five.” It was 11
Three things you will NEVER do..1. Use wind and solar to move a fully loaded freight train across Canada or USA 2. Use wind and solar to move a cargo ship across any ocean. 3. Use wind and solar to replace ANY product (fertilizer, fabric, paints & dyes, plastics, synthetic rubber, pharmaceuticals, etc. -list too long for CZcams-) made in the petro-chemistry sector. About HALF of oil & gas go to produce actual FUEL for any purpose.
There were actually 11 people killed in this cluster fvck, not 5.
11 killed...not 5
21:14 Eyebrows for emphasis?
Geothermal, solar, wave and current, and wind power. All are safe and better than using non-renewable and polluting fuels.
What do you think builds those things???? Treesss?????
Question:
If hydrocarbons are not supposed to enter the well bore (also, what's a well bore?) and then not supposed to enter the riser pipe, well, how are you supposed to get the oil and gas out of the well?
You know, the entire point of this operation.
I don't know anything about this industry as you can tell, but i guess you don't do what an ignorant like me would do, which is from a hole and collect that which squirts out.
because Deepwater Horizon was not there to pump oil. It was there to drill the hole and cap the well for extraction later by a different rig.
A pity the BP leadership executive team did not go to jail.
I just heard a grown man ask an engineer, "How does a sheer work?" You've got to be kidding me.
+TillistGott Hear ya but don't be surprised...most folks don't have clue how things work...that's why advertising is so effective..
thats why they call it a sheer!!!!
The sad thing was even after he explained it (and I think very well) they guy didn't get it.
You all mean Shear.... Sheer is thin or transparent like sheer curtains
What a shear does and how it works are totally different topics.
Probably not but there are many things we currently can't do efficiently or not at all with the safer renewable technologies. We should use safer tech for as much as possible though.
Solar Power.. Stick it where the sun don't shine!
Kg277 you do realize that all electricity to operate all equipment in space comes from solar power.....
11 men were killed u said 5 I know because my brother works for Halliburton
Let's get real.
Everyone in the business knows that the Schlumberger guys asked to get off 'cause they saw what was coming. Time and money over safety leads to disaster.
What evidence do you have. Can you direct me to any material. I would like to explore your claims.
The oil in the Gulf could have been salvaged, See Oil Spill Freeze Salvage. The future is to freeze the perimeter, clump and salvage the oil. Oil can also be herded away from wetlands and onto sandy shores.
Blood Oil!
i thought the ram he mentioned is a "holding ram" and not a "can cut anything it want shear ram".....
this is a better explication about this....
Such a tremendous shame.
What this tells me is that BP is run and operated by a bunch of people how can not even do an addition on a pocket calculator. My dad used to work on oil platforms and he told me about a texan called wally. He used to count how many pipes they put down the hole using matches because he could not count using numbers!
Lecturer seems to not be too passionate or interested in her presentation. I would fall asleep in this class.
@shithustler420
Agreed
Sure. Just have fewer and smaller. No arguement on the larger premis.
*Both BP Company Men! should have been personally help resondsible for this whole tragedy and sent to prison for life. No questions ask!*
What's with the not so respectful comments near the end? I thought this was a lecture, not a political townhall. Also they didn't seem to understand what he was saying, like the guy saying that he made it sound like 12 hour shifts were the problem when he never said or implied that.
Agreed.
BP almost got off the hook, they only paided a few billion dollars in all. That's a fraction of what they make.
He looks an older version of eminem with a goatee.
fitnesspoint2006 lmao hell yea
He looks calm and ready to drop bombs....
@davidthefat That's not a chemical raction, the problem is initiating the nuclear reaction and containing it.
Ships sailed for centuries with wind power. Otherwise I agree completely
DISCOVER !!!!!! SPIRT !!
Oh, also you will NEVER use wind and solar to get an airplane off the ground.
Sooo do BOPs even work,???
*rigs *miles, etc. etc.
a I'm At
Oh Boy Mistakes on mistake.
She didnt even know 11 men died?! If the casing float had converted the accident had not happened either
no flow meter,no thingy sensor which can recognize the flowing substance,no thermometer,
these b.o.p.'s are relicts.....
I love word spill it was not a spill it was blow out. with out controller well with no good way stop it
Anyone here, who can explain in a short way, what exactly happen? just in layman term though... im just a curious fellow...
YES IT BLEW UP
I have to say, I lost a fair bit trust in what they had to say, and the 'investigation' and 'interim report' they have completed, when not able to quote the number dead. Not only that, any accident investigation usually takes a significant amount more time than 'a few months'. Such a tragic series of events, ultimately caused by corporate negligence and greed, leading to the loss of 11 lives and impact on countless others. An avoidable and ultimately predictable consequence to the short cuts of people who would, in all likelihood, have never stepped on the rig. Everyone on the rig deserved better.
Cement is a powder used in mix (with gravel and other things) to make concrete. They are not the same thing and cement on its own wouldn't hold much! .. for "Joe" the homeowner it is ok to mix these two terms like they were the same but for someone from Stanford to not know such fundamental thing makes you question their other "findings"...
You are thinking of a particular product called "portland cement", "cementing" is a process where some substance is bound together.
Nope, Portland cement is just a type of cement (not a product name)... wiki cement or see blog.ozinga.com/concrete-vs.-cement-explained
There are cement additives that have been developed to allow the use of Portland cement in many different oil and gas well operations. In an attempt to formulate the appropriate cement slurry for any cementing job, the right additive must selected and the right quantity must be added.There are different types of cement additives developed to allow the use of Portland cement in many different oil and gas well applications. BP hired a top oilfield service company to test the strength of cement linings on the Deepwater Horizon's well, but sent the firm's workers home 11 hours before the rig exploded without performing a final check.
You changed the MMS into something CALIFONICATION. DON'T LET A GOOD CRISIS GO TO WASTE, MR. MUSK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@davidthefat No, the problem is not in the controlling of either the chemical making of hydrogen tritium and deuterium neither in fusing it with laser or magnetic fields. The problem is making the process EFFECTIVE. It will take many years until the problems regarding nuclear fusion are solved. I love nuclear fusion. I wish we had it ready. The world needs 2 inventions now. The space elevator with nanotubes and hydrogen fusion power plants!
Why not just research fusion? Acquiring Hydrogen is not hard at all. The problem is containing the chemical reaction from what I have heard.
Vibrant community
Hydrocarbons in the riser are coming on board!!!! OK I got it....I got it..
People may have walked in after he started.
He looks lime my momma!
@davidthefat : oddly enough, even as an environmentalist... there is good reason to look even to fission for power... it would be bad to do for centuries, but to get us from oil to more sustainable sources with less toxic waste would probably be a lot greener than getting there on gas and oil it seems. However, the main solution is don't let a bunch of greedy assholes run whatever it is you do use to get massive amounts of energy.
very long video.
Killed 11, not 5.
If someone whats to make money from the clean up and other shit this will happen again .You need to investigate who made money on this accident and jail those people.
Sorry this happened....but I still love my bear.
Your bear? ...what huh
Idk what you’re talking about
as an engineer who works for one of the companies deeply involved in the deepwater horizon incident (not for BP)... i just am constantly /facepalming over most of the rhetoric involved in the "discussion" revolving around this incident and the greater conversation as a whole pertaining to energy, the environment and natural resources.
THANK YOU
@@weaksohyeah it's always interesting to see someone reply to a comment left years ago that has passed so far out of memory I don't even remember watching the video.
Lots of video’s on what went wrong but not much details of the actual “oil leak point”and the many failed attempts to stop or slow the oil leaking I watched the underwater tv news coverage at that time of the riser pipe laying on the seabed spilling crude oil for 87 days after the rig collapsed and wondered why the world’s oil industry does not have the specific riser diameter purpose built “robotic hydraulic crimping tool “ that could at least dramatically slow even stop the crude oil spill “temporarily” , as to buy time to plan a permanent solution.
No amount of engineering design prowess can prevent an accident if those using the tools and protocols so carefully designed decide to ignore the proper use and maintenance of those tools and ignore the protocols.
Jose Rea I don't believe it was the rig workers for one minute, it was business decisions to cut corners. The working man is always blamed in big business.
They had plenty of time to realize that they had a blow out on their hands.but failed to..The CEO was not running the rig, it was the working man..and he fucked up...
@@DynamicSeq yea but when the working men hit their safety procedures, they did not work. they did as they were trained and there were other failures. same as chernobyl. when told to perform action X in an emergency, and then performed action X, but action X fails. it is not the working mans fault.
@@gregoryeisenhut243 WTF...So if I train you for a job...Spend time and money to train you in safety..And you flat out ignore that training..Then you say it's not your fault ??..
At Chernobyl no equipment failed, the safety protocol said no more that 183 rods was to be retracted..They pulled 193..Well knowing that it was against protocol...And you say we don't blame them..I hope you work alone and far away from others, because with that attitude you are going to get somebody killed....
Watch the full lecture before commenting on these matters
Omg the introduction to the information is wayyyyyy too long
The takeaway from this is an old one, the bridge will stand, the airplane will fly and the blowout preventer will work. It's totally common for those who claim authority on a subject to reassure the rest of us with "you can trust me, I'm an expert, I know what I'm doing". I understand that they really do believe in their own infallibility, but why do the rest of us continue trust them with our lives?? The perfect illustration of this is the emergency shut down that cut the fuel supply to the engine while natural gas poured into the intakes. The expert that designed the shut down is also an idiot.
Oh you have all figured out, your Brilliant! SMH
cut the pipe!
Lady get your facts straight; 11 were killed Not 5!
I must ask... Are you aware this applies to yourself, even if not fully? Or are you not human, Sir? Regardless, this is somewhat true.