I think some of this is incorrect ! At 5:05, they say that the pressure inside the drill pipe increased (and subsequently buckled) preventing the shear ram in the BOP from closing off the drill pipe, which "proved to be catastrophic". So if the drill pipe was was closed off (on the rig somehow), then how in the heck could hydrocarbons make it out of the closed drill pipe on to the rig to cause the explosion ??? Plus, how do hydrocarbons leak INTO the drill pipe in the first place ? Isn't there a drill bit screwed into the end of the drill pipe that is in the casing (or production casing) ?? Moreover, at 4:25 - 4:28, they said that the crew closed a ram (2nd from bottom as shown in the animation) successfully sealing the well (at the annular). Then he goes on to say: "however, that proved to only me temporary as the oil in gas that was already in the riser continued to "flow" up onto the rig". That's BS, - if it is sealed (like he said), then how could you get "flow" from the ocean floor all the way up some 5,000 feet onto the rig ?

This never happens in June 2024 AI technology has saved the world!

3:55 oil entering the wellbore was detected by the mudloggers, no one listened to them. They were attempting to displace the well to seawater while pumping the mud simultaneously to the boats. This is not industry standard. Mud should go into pits where barrel in / barrel out is carefully measured. This was the fault of humans, not equipment.

I work for Bp pipeline there design work from 50yrs ago was more Efficient yes it's harder manual labor to maintain an fill tanks and barge tankers but safer and profitable. To many components and reliability on computers these days

As we narrow the oil companies down to two....then one, monopoly.

Hope ain't a tactic.

Really doesn't matter how many safety features and redundancies you have if you don't properly test them, regularly.

The BP oil disaster - that servant Don Cheney, among others, knew that the well was going to blow and sold their stock in the company around just before it went public. Him and other volunteers, destined for their chosen destination, profited in this lifetime from the disaster, but thankfully will inherit their chosen inheritance. As they deemed to others, may it be deemed to them, but with mercy; because no one of us can be so cruel. By their own choosing they sold themselves, even by trying to sell others. True to their profession of being a ...red light worker.

Were not seeing the silver lining here though. Some trillionaire made more money.

Dude... Did those safety equipment manufacturers move on to work at Boeing? I mean, how sloppy can you be?

Imagine that. Gross incompetency and cost cutting measures combined with shortcuts taken at the production and safety levels contributed to a disaster that is, essentially, our Chernobyl.

No tests carried out on electrical systems before installation, I'm calling bullshit!

2024 - BP and big oil are drilling in the Gulf in deeper waters with more relaxed restrictions due to Trump's drive to boost oil production. Safety inspections have declined due to rule changes under Trump that saves energy companies almost 2 billion a year. Biden changed some of Trump's rules in late 2023, but they have not taken effect as of yet and will more than likely not be enforced until the next election. Cleanup tactics have changed little since the BP disaster which means another blowout will have the same type of response as it did in 2010. It's only a matter of time before this happens again.

I worked in the oil and gas industry for 2 years before returning home because I wanted to build my future in my hometown rather than have to move down south full time. Loved it for the most part, the work was fun and the camaraderie was unmatched. I did catalyst, some pipe fitting, and was mainly a towercraft/boilermaker. After the movie and seeing the family videos of those who died in this incident hits heavy for me. There were more fatalities on turnarounds i went on in those 2 years than not. The worst was last March (I won’t disclose the refinery but it was in the Midwest) 3 people died on that job in 1 week. 1 slipped off a ladder due to ice in the unit I was working in, and fell over 75 feet to his death. He was an operator up there in age. The other 2 were younger guys in a vessel removing catalyst. To go in those vessels to remove the catalyst/media, they put you in a space suit looking helmet with supplied air and screw you in. (You cannot take off the helmet without assistance) There is a backup pack of air you are supposed to keep strapped to you at all times in case, and while going through training they essentially suffocate you in the helmet and train you to hook up to that backup. My supervisor told us the plant claimed the air lines froze over, but we believed it to be an operating/mechanical error either from inside the module where those workers and the equipment are monitored, or perhaps they were not properly hooked up/sealed in. I never found out what really happened. With all of that being said; the reason I typed all of this is because all those guys got was a moment of silence in the morning safety meeting and work continued as if nothing happened. All while those men had loved ones back home in absolute shambles. I was fortunate, the companies i worked for were excellent with safety, and I truly felt cared for rather than ‘just a number’. It is scary to me how those incidents are swept so well under the rug. With how little exposure I had to the industry with just those 2 years, and to see that many deaths, the statistics on refinery fatalities must be crazy inaccurate. Much respect for the hard workers in the field who hit it hard all year every year. I met some of the coolest, smartest, hard working men I will ever come across in that field and I am grateful to have had the experiences I did with it.

I love petroleum and will always honor it as a life giving source of energy to humanity. Tragic. But thank all the men who worked this rig. We wouldn’t have power without them.

Personally here after watching Mark Wahlberg's Deepwater Horizon movie. This is crazy to think about o.0 I was still young when this happened and remember all the news and info on it that came out

So you are telling me in 87 days of not plugging the well they recovered all hardware from 5000 feet below for the investigation, and then plugged it?

here is a fact... it is inconceivable that the BOP was put into service without being fully tested, double and triple checked. whoever failed to do that is the real criminal...

I wish I had seen this before the movie they made about it. I wanted to know about the mud and the workings so badly at the time.

As an engineer I could say the smarter you get the dumber you do also. I worked with engineers who didn’t know what a box and wrench meant.

Just watched the movie. Irresponsible BP people.

I've been in one blow out and it was in the panhandle it was all hell raining down I can't imagine being in the ocean and having no place to go

i bet their politicians and elites were more sad about the money lost than the lives 🤣🤣🤣

This guy obviously didn’t watch the movie, otherwise he would know this was all John Malkovich’s fault. 😂

Ok, so , BOP failed to cut pipe because pipe bucled , but , the company who built that BOP didnt knew this scenario??.....and that misswired coil is incredible , i almost think is a fake news to hide other reasons.....something is fishy here.

Love all the retards in the comments acting like they dont know how cheap human life is. If you think a multi billion dollar company cares about your safety, youre naivety is staggering. Grow up. No one cares about you.

they could have implemented a system where if all fails, a special radial bend dye goes into action, first a blade cuts off the pipe, the oil begins to spill out, but at the same a time a bend dye starts to rotate, bends the pipe over in an oval manner and eventually just seals the hole in the pipe by bending the pipe into a flat end hook 360' and by colliding the end of a pipe into the blind recessed hole when it completed the rotation it seals off the end of the pipe and stops the pressure. The pipe is tightly embedded itself into the dye and can move no further so no break out is plausible. Then the divers come and weld everything shut. They could have had the dye always engaged on the pipe and if all safety fails it bends over and blinds the pipe. done. instead of trying to shear metal in half, bend it over onto itself and seal it off by bending the end of it into a blind hole.

So basically, similar to what happened in Chernobyl. Cutting cost towards the materials used, internal corruption, the higher ups forced workers to do a test that put the structure beyond the limit. No wonder history repeats itself.

yeah nice story whic is fake. anyone went there again no! from start makes no sence they say they shut off, but oil which was above was still going up :D you havve garden hose and holding toward up than you shut off water and what happens? :D it defines physics and goes up ? :D no it stops

The Hegelian Dialectic is always in effect. The saying "There is always something" exists because there really is Always Something. Problem, Reaction, Solution.

Totally agree,!!

It's funny how this video has 5x more views than the original.

great explanation about the BOP, but you did not mention the failed pressure test by Schlumberger which I would like to understand better

Along with other negligent decisions by the producers representative and the failure of rig personnel to invoke the safety stop work protocol, were they in the process of evacuating the sub-sea riser of BHP equivalent mud with a lighter weight fluid after a casing cement job with no follow up Bondlog, allow gas migrating from the zone into the riser because of an in properly installed sealing device at the sea floor. At the surface, there would have occurred a differential of flow in and flow out as an indication of gas I trusion warranting closer of BOP before gas caused the generators to runaway mode and ignite thurface atomos]her. Even before the well began ejecting pipe. It is a dicrace that no one person in the management of the well sight did not do any real penance their actions. This was severe negligence. It is horrific that 11 men had to dye because the job was behind schedule for the next rig move and job. The wives and children should never have been forced into this much pain and loneliness. Shame on you, BP. Shame on you, Deep Water Horizon management.

I was in basic during this and I remember seeing news coverage. So heartbreaking.

A lazy or incompetent electrician caused this whole debacle…

So what this is saying is that the Chief ET/Mike Williams the guy they made the hero was responsible... Now I understand how the executives were not charged... Mind-blowing for sure ✔️

he said "crap water"🤣

nebute

Wouldn’t you think the final safety valve would be held off with power, to collapse and close with power loss? It’s called normally closed!

''We're sorry..''' - BP

Believe it was much much more than five million barrels 😢

So what I learned from this is, no matter how idiot proof you make something, there will always be idiots that can prove you wrong. 🤦‍♀🤦‍♀

I don’t know anything at all about this stuff but damn everything failed. the whole thing was terribly built.

Even today Nov 2023. I have an engineer arguing with me about him not wanting to change a document to eliminate ambiguous language that could result in somebody getting hurt and his response was. "we have been using this document for years". And this is from a major commerical airline manufacturer....

and someone should have pushed the button that would have stopped that spill. BP did not do it

I was over that site, maybe 14 months after it happened

Battery drain cause catastrophic accident 😂 Nice story build up 🎈 Real Reason : Bighead investors not on correct ordering phase. They didn't even notice nothing 😂 even offshore specialist words also denied before the blast. 😢

I just feel sorry for all the wildlife and the suffering this spilled caused..I haven’t owned or driven a car for 15 years and I’m get around on an electric scooter..It’s probably time to call time on these platforms for good…❤

this is why we need to switch to EVs