I wonder how many commenting here have ever been on an offshore platform, or on a drilling rig or site?
Or know the job titles associated with running a rig?
Or know the component parts of equipment involved?
I do know completing a well in 5,000 ft. of water is something that not very many people know much about.
I highly doubt that BP intentionally cut corners on safety.
When I was 20 years old I was on workover rigs, as an engineering technician (work clothes, not suits).
We often had two or even three people doing the math to determine exactly how deep we were, so as to not damage the expensive tools, and lose time.
Sometimes things went wrong. Things going wrong in the oilfield is not unusual.
I don’t expect the news media, politicians , government regulators to solve the damaged wellhead problem.
I don’t beat up on the big capitalist oil company about it.
That job is reserved for liberals, democrats, anti-capitalists.
Profit is a wonderful thing, providing wealth, jobs, goods and services.
The opposite is old USSR and Cuba.
I don’t beat up on the big capitalist oil company about it.
That job is reserved for liberals, democrats, anti-capitalists.
Profit is a wonderful thing, providing wealth, jobs, goods and services.
I think that’s worth repeating