“I’m pretty sure it’s the biggest practical set ever built in the history of filmmaking.” Recreating the explosive events aboard the rig — which generated a massive fireball visible from 40 miles away and led to the deaths of 11 crew members — was no easy task for Berg and the f...
Oil has been spewing since the rig Deepwater Horizon exploded April 20, killing 11 people and sinking two days later. The government shortly afterward estimated the spill at 210,000 gallons — or 5,000 barrels — a day, a figure that has since been questioned by some scientists who fear i...
There are many factors that caused this horrible spill to happen; to be exact there were eight failures of the oilrig that caused this disaster. The first failure was the cement at the bottom of the borehole was not sealed properly. This caused the oil and gas to start leaking into the...
Daniel may think the rig and well are the same thing. Many people think of old pictures of well blowouts where the old wooden rigs are in place and think that the rig remains in place after the well has been drilled. Personally the only rig I have seen in person was a small rig use...
If you go over the Rigzone web site you might find the Mad Dog drilling rig lost its drilling derrick. The equipment is at the bottom of the sea. There is other damage that might be added to the lesser damage of Gustav. BOP on September 16, 2008 - 12:08pm Permalink | Parent | Com...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge has scheduled a status conference to discuss a request to postpone the trial of two BP rig supervisors charged with manslaughter in the April 2010 deaths of 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. Shell considered buying BP: paper FRANKFURT - ...
Five years ago, when disaster struck in the Gulf, these robots, lacking high-flow pumps, couldn’t do that. On April 20, 2010, about 50 miles off Louisiana, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig killed 11 workers and triggered the worst oil spill in U.S. history. The blowout prev...
A year ago this week, the rig count stood at 2,031. Saudi offers more fuel oil on refinery glitch SINGAPORE: Saudi Aramco’s fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit in its Rabigh refinery experienced an outage last week, and was re-started this week, but was still not running at full ...
Today, CEO Elon Musk released a photo (above) on Instagram heralding the rig’s first real task: take a load of freshly produced battery packs from the Gigafactory on the outskirts of Sparks, Nevada, and deliver them to the Tesla Fremont factory (A.K.A. the Mothership) in California. ...
Considerations like the clear environmental hazards of drilling, and risks to the public’s health and safety. It was only a year ago that the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, creating one of the largest environmental catastrophes ever. ...