Your Thoughts On The BP Spill

Comment by Drilling Ahead on May 15, 2010 at 4:26pm

would like to start this off with something that really gripes me and that is the politicians. From Obama down to the Congressmen they all are so upset and offended in what they feel is 'childish finger pointing by BP Transocean and Halliburton they even go as far as saying these companies should be ashamed of themselves!
Now these are the same politicians that argue and point blame at each other over the economy-Health Care-Climate Change-Wall Street Bailouts and as you all know the list goes on and on.
It really gripes me to see these childish bickering finger-pointing politicians acting all 'Holy" and offended by what they see as finger-pointing among the companies here.

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!

Comment by bill the drill on May 15, 2010 at 6:34pm

There has been a tragic loss of life her every time I her of some thing lick this my heart bleeds the hole oil family across the globe all religions and cultures more the loss of life this is yet a another tragedy lets watt and get the company mans testimony and all the witness statement then point the finger But maybe just a simple thing W.O.C bop function test just a few hours more the oil has been there millions of years a few hours more wouldn’t have made much difference. But we will have to just stab in the dark for now. BP didn’t want this Transocean nether but financial pressure tack’s president over every thing. I know I have seen it all too often as we all have. Someone somewhere has got this on his or her conscience?
God bless and keep them 11 men and pray for them and there family’s

Comment by DeeperCheaper on May 15, 2010 at 8:34pm

What we are seeing in the hearings is all about politics and money.

The pols are grilling the execs like it is the Nuremberg hearings. They are getting camera time, and paying bills owed to the green constituency that backs them with votes and money.

The money part is why the execs are doing the finger-pointing. Money as in future law suits you know are coming. They can't fully admit to wrong in these hearings or it will come back to bite them in the courtroom later. I'd be willing to guess they leave these hearings each day and roll their sleeves up side by side and look for a solution to the problem. BP knows they can't come back on Howco, Transocean, or Cameron if they have them under contract and BP is directing operations. Maybe if they could clearly prove incompetence, failure to follow direct orders, falsification of test, or even sabotage, they might be able to come back on them. No other way, and it would have to be rock solid evidence.

The finger-pointing should be at the government for not previously having tort reform in place limiting punitive damages in cases like this. If BP/Transocean could look down the road and know they would not be bankrupted by the suits, the hearings could concentrate on matters that matter.

You don't realize how fast the buzzards circle the dying calf until you see articles like the one linked below:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/07/AR2...

Literally, the title of the article starts with "How to sue and oil company". It is written by one of the attorneys involved in the Valdez litigation.

I've watched every minute of the two-hour (+) C-Span link that was posted the other day. The first hour (half of the broadcast) is posturing and camera gloating by both sides. Not one with useful or new information is broadcast. Half of that two hours was shot.

The grilling by two or three of the members of the left was merciless. Loaded questions designed to get a specific response, and repeated haranguing if that answer was not immediately forthcoming.

Gotta say, the guy from Halliburton is the coolest and smartest when it comes to fending off these types of attacks.

Once again, it's about politics and money. Limit the liability and let the free enterprise system do its thing and this will be over sooner and cleaner.

We would leave this behind us sharper, leaner, and offering safer workplaces for our men and women.

I look forward to comments and rebuttals.

Deeper

Comment by matt buckaloo on May 16, 2010 at 4:44pm

Move over wall street, major league baseball, & toyota...Ii see a congressional hearing inBP's near future! What gripes my a$s is CBS & MSNBC couldn't wait to start bashing anyone who has ever went to bat for our industry.

Comment by Lee Jones on May 16, 2010 at 6:20pm

what ticks me off first off, is the news companies blabbing on and on about the spill, getting all these environmentalists and what not on the tv, who are bashing BP and Halliburton, and Transoceans drilling, and all the other related companies,etc. And yet, I have not seen one person on any news channel who knows what they are talking about without an agenda, and can openly explain to the vast majority of people, who don't know s*** about our industry and what we do, what's going on, and what's happened. My heart goes out to the 11 men who died on the rig in the explosion that day. But sadly the politicians in Washington are going to sink all of our jobs, with hearings and lawsuits. Granted righteous anger from all of us in the industry should go out on BP and its contractors if they are in fact the cause of this disaster, for their stupidity and recklessness killed 11 men. But has anyone ever thought that it may be sabotage to ruin BP, or even worse get new disastrous regulations passed on the whole entire industry? Cause i find it quite coincidental that this happened on Earth Day.

Comment by DeeperCheaper on May 16, 2010 at 11:00pm

A challenge to you.....

As a roughneck, mud engineer, solids control equipment man, and consultant (not to mention UPS delivery boy, caleche truck driver, insurance salesman....) I have spent a lot of time in the patch.

Because I was a "great American" fueling our growth by my single-handed discovery of hydrocarbons in a swift manner.......I kinda forgot something.

I went about 20 years without being a registered voter, or even knowing where my polling place was located. Heck, if you aren't gonna be in town on election day, why worry about it, right? I mean, it is so much trouble to vote absentee.....you do know what that means, right?

I figger'd since I was puttin' out day and night at work, and because I just had one little bitty vote, nobody would miss me.

I have never changed an election by voting or not voting, because I've never seen an election decided by one vote.

But now, I wake up and look at pictures of my children and grandchildren, and think about what I did back then that was more important than voting.

I hope you are a part of the new vocal majority called the "Tea Party"......

Just remember, if you are not a registered voter and you don't know when the next election takes place, and you don't know where your polling place is........then you are like a candle in the wind.....and Elton John sang that song, and he was gay, and he was from England....and his country is broke.......get my drift????

An alliteration by Deeper.....probably to be deleted by Curtis.......hit me, Drill!!! I expect it!!!!!!

Comment by Drilling Ahead on May 18, 2010 at 2:53am

CBS aired the following interview with a Deepwater Horizon survivor I have posted it here for you to check out

Here are my thoughts about this interview-I look forward to see ing yours
This is an example of irresponsible reporting.
Getting this guy (electrical something or other)to comment on drilling operations is like getting a NASA janitor to comment on a moonshot!

Lets review what we know to be facts

* The BOPS were tested every 2 weeks by MMS and passed inspections .This was AFTER this guy claims chuncks of rubber came from the Annular.

* Annulars are made to pull pipe in...its a procedure called "stripping".

* The rubber found by the derrickhand was from drilling out the rubber plug (Remember he says this was a month before the explosion) used during each casing job-this well had several strings of casing-so several rubber plugs had to be drilled out and this is the incident that the driller told him" not to worry about" because it was (and is) normal. The rubber plugs are drilled slowly with little bit weight so as not to "Punch Through" it and have a donut of rubber on the bottom of your drilling assembly. While drilling the rubber derrickhands are trained to watch the shakers for rubber in the returns to report progress of drilling out the rubber plugs.

* Drilling fast is the way of life in the oilfield and has no bearing on this accident-Every driller is responsible to make as much good, clean straight hole as possible. it has no bearing on "being behind"

* Tony Haywards comments on Transocean being the party responsible for safety This comment is true and he should not be cursed by press/politicians for saying this as he is not denying blame at all on BPs part.
Here is how that works BP leases the rig and almost all that man it from Transocean for $500,000 a day. out of over 160 people on board only a few are BP employees. Transocean trains and conducts their own safety meetings with employees Transocan pays workers comp and insurance on these employees, THEY ARE TRANSOCEAN EMPLOYEES! Transocean is responsible for their safety.

When BP said this in interviews-they were not saying they had no responsibility for the spill/disaster. BP knows that BP IS 100% responsible for what happens downhole -THAT IS BP's RESPONSIBILITY and what caused the disaster!

That is the reason why BP is responsible for the mess and fixing it.

I hope this sheds some light on what is accurate and what is biased or not understood by this reporter on CBS 60 Minutes.


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Got to say. I expected more from CBS 60 Minutes. They just aired their interview with a survivor on the Deepwater Horizon and the entire story is garbage. CBS could have stuck with using the story as a great tale of human survival, but instead they tried to use the story to assign blame and propose criminal conduct on the part of BP. Everything they aired in this respect was meant to mislead viewers in an attempt to get ratings.
Comments on the CBS 60 Minutes website all think this brave reporter ought to get some sort of medal for this-as for me I will NEVER put any faith in a story aired on 60 Minutes again.
I have talked all 6 parts of their video and combined them here if you want to watch it

Comment by Steve on May 18, 2010 at 11:16am

Hey I remember my Driller having me stand over shaker throwing him chunks of rubber soon after drilling out the (Shoe).....The news media count on and rightfully so that 90% of target audience will bite sometimes in search for the answers they will accept ..Those tears (although I am sure real) was a nice touch Sixty Minutes has it down pat my friend aint their first rodeo.When putting out this story as controversial as this should realize its going analyze and dissected as it should do they really think that drilling operation spending about 1/2 million dollar a day operation is really going to continue normal operation if they thought chunks of rubber was going to be a future issue. Validating an electrician trying to diagnosing a drilling issue. Thought it was kind of evasive of B.P not allowing their employees to be interviewed Which promotes media to go in their own direction.......

Comment by Chris Keilberg on May 20, 2010 at 1:01pm

The government should have allowed them to set fire to the oil immediately (which was what BP, the U.S. Coast Guard, Halliburton, and numerous consultants suggested) . Yes, it would have made a nasty smoke plume, but our atmosphere would have been much quicker to recover than our oceans , coastlines, and inland wetlands & waterways, and 80-90% of the oil washing ashore and the resulting mess could have been averted . Furthermore, said fire would likely have resulted in a "gas flash" which would aid in shutting down the oil flow at source.
Whatever their reasoning & political agenda behind it, you ask me; the powers that be in U.S. government wanted this mess maximized as much as possible, and they are getting their wish !

Comment by Chris Keilberg on May 20, 2010 at 1:11pm

This whole hearing thing is a ridiculous waste of time & resources, just elected officials seeking the spotlight and accomplishing NOTHING. There is nobody in the entire U.S. senate that knows the difference between a drilling rig & a lawnmower , must they constantly parade their ignorance for the world to see ??? If they want to hold useless hearings, they should focus on something that they obviously consider important in D.C. like professional baseball player salaries & alleged steroid use !!!

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