Yep🙏🏻.
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Had everyone at lifeboats once with so much gas coming out that entire drill ship was shaking. That’s one massive boat. Very humbling experience. Stupid thing was it should never have happened. Left instructions at end of shift, went to bed. Got up and checked with people and they’d not followed. Went to guy in charge and told him to stop ops until we verified. He wouldn’t. Bloody stupid. When drilling in deep water, the barrier to shut off the well is on the sea bed. If gas gets into the riser connecting boat to the well, there’s no way to block it off. Gas doubles in size every meter it rises. When water depth is over 1000m, it just doesn’t take that much. Mental stuff
Wowzers! Similar thing happened on Piper Alpha with a shitty handover, that one REALLY didn't end well☹️.
Exactly. With those volumes of flammables and those pressures, it’s quick too. Have friends who worked on the deep water horizon. That was nuts too. Tragic
Yes, that was another bad one, with a multi zillion dollar clean up bill!!
One of the craziest thing with that cost was the comment from Chevron CEO at senate hearings where he said they might want to at least be thankful that it was BP so they could actually afford it. I was working for another major at the time and holy shit did they become more conservative. They’d worked out there were only 3 oil companies big enough to survive that. We were not one of them!
Madness. Equally so, how have we descended into this, from a lovely tropical Christmas BBQ note🤔😂.
