Your Thoughts On The BP Spill

Comment by Dave Sereda on July 14, 2010 at 11:39pm

Well we have a saying up here if you have never voted you have no room to complain about the government. So all I have to say is one is no better than the other and will only do for the ones that pay them large amounts of money. Here if they get elected twice they get a large pension so they are good for the first term and crap after that. At least you guys in the states don't have a minority or a coalition government so you are doing better that way. This is all off topic so that's all I have to say.

Comment by DP Consultant on July 18, 2010 at 9:31am

I have to say one thing, you all are clued in and a pleasure to communicate with. Back on topic, has anyone but me noticed that the early evidence was the well was OK and we had a bad cmt job with LOTS of human error. Seems proven now.

Comment by Dave Sereda on July 18, 2010 at 11:53am

So DP Consultant my feelings about this situation has not changed, it was human error right from the start and it was all BP office making the wrong decisions right from the start. They took shortcuts for both time and money. What they did has not only put together the worst environmental damage in North America but are costing thousands to millions of jobs to be lost or put on hold until everything is ether forgotten or enough has been done to have work start again. A lot of Canadians are starting to pressure the governments both provincial and federal to stop hydrocarbon trade with the states and start to sell all our oil to China and Asia.

I know a lot Americans and talking with them they understand the importance of Canadian oil, so I dislike the idea of having to see anyone have to go through the loss such an important commodity. So yes I blame BP and the American media for doing what ever they can to make money this way, by taking short cuts and by printing more than what they are told and is mostly speculation.

I am sorry if this comment sounds anti-American but this entire situation is effecting the Canadian oilfield as well not just the Gulf States.

Comment by DP Consultant on July 27, 2010 at 1:34pm

Dave, You are right that it was mostly human error, although every event has a non-human trigger or component. It's up to the humans to save it, not ignore the data or make things worse. Certainly the office is the root cause, as you say, but also either lots of equipment wasn't working or the guys on the rig had to ignore some blatant data. There is enough blame for all involved.

This isn't an American issue. BP Americas was run by Brits, not Americans, but every country, including America and Canada, has their share of people who feel they are "above" basic safety rules. The root problem is being too smart to need basic safety practices, not nationality. The dumbest and the smartest drillers I ever worked with were both Canadian. Actually I knew a driller who could qualify for both on the same tour.

Comment by Dave Sereda on July 27, 2010 at 11:15pm

DP Consultant I to have had a few good and a few bad drillers and entire crews work on the wells which I have supervised both in Canada and mostly in the Middle East, some American and some Chinese. But have found out that it all depends on their leaders, the rig manager and the oil company rep. you spend no time with them and don't credit them for the work they do and you get men that now no different and just over look things. So that is what I feel probably happened on that Deep Water rig. So it doesn't matter where the men were from they just were out there doing a job the best that they knew how.

Comment by Floyd R on October 21, 2011 at 11:04pm

I'm not a pusher, nor am I a company man...I'm a roughneck, now here's the deal...every day I take a crap, I don't need a company man or pusher to tell me how to wipe my arse...and I darn sure don't need one to let me know when it's time to shut in the well, when that time comes the well will be shut in and flowing through the choke manifold before the company man and pusher ever get their pants above their knees...If you got to run and ask the company man and pusher if it's time to shut in the well you ain't no roughneck or driller, you're a worm plain and simple...Oh, I forgot...Patterson's new policy is that you ain't allowed to call anybody a worm anymore...but you know what I'm thinking...

Comment by Floyd R on October 21, 2011 at 11:22pm

BP and their egg head engineers can shift the blame anywhere that they want to but the truth of the matter is that you don't start drilling out until you have tested the stack. It seems pretty damn obvious to me, a lowly roughneck, that the stack didn't hold...but I guess that's the drillers fault, eh?...excuse me, I just love saying "eh" I picked it up from the Canadians...

Comment by Floyd R on October 21, 2011 at 11:41pm

Now, here's a little tip for my British brothers...don't drill out until you've tested your stack because just as quick as you cut corners or bend the rules it will come back to bite you in the b***...but I guess you already know that, don't you?...

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