Transocean Deepwater Horizon

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Permalink Reply by DeeperCheaper on May 31, 2010 at 2:34pm

Lerrett....
A very lucid post.
I will call you out on only one line.....

"would have been fired for not waiting on orders from on shore."

Back that up and I'm all with you.

While you are squirming in your chair, remember that the most senior level (to my knowledge) person that died was a toolie.......

With all the flap about the failed, then successful negative pressure tests, a company man should have been in the moon pool.

That's why I don't take the tough ones anymore. I have no control of the casing program, which is most important. I have some control of the mud program. When we cement, Mother Nature and her estranged husband called Father Time take over.

Cement works most of the time if it can sit still for a few minutes........

But when the boss in the office says "Froggy", in order to keep my job, I gotta ask....

"How high????"

I percieve that in the deep portion of the GOM, we are getting into a situation where frac gradients and pore pressure gradients that are diverse and very close together are evident.

If you gotta set a string of casing @ every 2,000 ft in the lower portion of the hole, and you don't have access to an annulus behind the casing, and you trust the cement job implicitly, well.......'dem chickens done come home to roost....and you know what collects under the roost, assuming you are a country boy..........

but I digress..........

Deeper....

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Permalink Reply by DeeperCheaper on May 31, 2010 at 2:53pm

Rodney,
My grandfather was born in east Texas @ 1912. Married, farmed for one year, and got in a car ('28 model) with some guys who said there was work in Oklahoma. Three months later he was so flush he wired my grandmother $12.00 American to buy a ticket and make a new life in Oklahoma. It was August.

My grandmother's sisters (my great aunts) helped her pack her grip. Realizing it looked a little bit skinny, the then stuffed it with wadded up pages from the Gilmer Mirror newspaper to fluff it up a little bit, so as not to be so skinny.......

My grandfather worked floors on a wooden derrick when the floor was a two-step up from the ground.

He worked cable tools, and moonlighted as a tool dresser at night, rebuilding the tools they busted up that day.

He went on to drill for Frank Phillips, founder of Phillips 66, the on to Tom Loffland, where he was daylight stud on either the first or second rig Tom built.

Then on to two or three other contractors, the second to last being Delta Drilling where he was superintendent of the largest yard for the largest drilling contractor in the world in 1952.

He never worked derricks. Never went up in the derrick.

Supposedly, he was afraid of heights and would make hash marks if he had to look down.

My dad (his son) said Bigdaddy wouldn't work derricks because there wasn't anybody up there to bull;s*** into doing his job for him.

Does this make him management material, like you???

Deeper, and deeper........

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Permalink Reply by danny ducheneaux on May 20, 2010 at 5:04pm

To all the brothers who got off safe i thank the lord. For those who didn't i pray for the families.

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