Deepwater Horizon Oil Well

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Deepwater Horizon Oil Well What Really Happened

What Really Happened With The Deepwater Horizon Oil Well

Deepwater Horizon Oil Well What Really Happened

What Really happened on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig? Read this book to find out and learn the reason for the largest oil spill in Gulf Coast History.

The lifeboats left half full Abandoned & workers jumped into the sea.
BP's Team Leader falsified safety tests He did not understand the warning signs of a coming blowout.
Centralizers for cementing were not run Leaving the centralizers off, saved time but allowed oil and gas to blow out.
The well was flowing but nobody was watching.
The well watcher was on extended coffee break and the crew were transferring drilling mud to a boat.
A fountain of mud shot up the derrick 100 ft high.
The tool pusher diverted flow to the poor boy degasser - a fatal mistake.
The motors were breathing in gas.
Power was lost when they accelerated to destruction.
The rig drifted away from the well.
Not enough cement was pumped.
Too little thought was given to solving a cementing problem.
A fancy float valve was run in the casing string, It 'saved time' but nobody knew enough about the valve to realize they had cleared a blockage NOT prepared the valve for cementing.
The shear rams failed to sever the pipe.
Transocean knew about the flat battery in the blue control system but did nothing about it.
The fire and gas shutdown system was bypassed To avoid waking the crew with false alarms.
The riser failed to unlatch from the well.
A faulty shuttle valve prevented the Yellow control system from operating.