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Job done, they went up to meet the rig captain on the bridge. Night was beginning to fall, and at 19:00 in a conference room below deck the VIPs met with crew representatives to congratulate them on their superb seven-year safety record.
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They arrived at around 14:30, and were given a full tour of the rig, meeting the crew, discussing safety issues along the way and being assured that the final stages of drilling and preparing to seal off the well were going fine. Not only was this the day for completion and moving on, but to celebrate the rig’s excellent safety record of seven years without a lost-time incident, BP Vice President of Drilling, Patrick O’Bryan, along with other BP and Transocean executives, were making a special visit to the rig to present awards and congratulate the crew. To celebrate the rig’s excellent safety record of seven years without a lost-time incident, BP.and Transocean executives were making a special visit to the rig to present awards and congratulate the crew Mission almost accomplished.įight: Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of Deepwater Horizon This would bring to the surface the potential 50m barrels (bbl) of high-quality oil (worth about US$5bn) formed and trapped in the reservoir over geological time. The Deepwater Horizon, costing about US$1M a day to use, could finally be moved away to drill elsewhere with the Macondo well temporarily capped, ready to be re-entered and moved into production mode at a future date.
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However, today was the day when, having reached the target zone, the well was to be completed and left in a safe state of readiness for future production.
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The drilling had been taking place in one mile of deep water for some 4 months and the project was six weeks behind schedule – due to a series of delays arising from drilling through some quite sensitive and weak rock formations that required careful and circumspect drilling. Geoff Maitland looks back on the Gulf of Mexico oilspill, ten years ago this monthĢ0 April 2010 was to be a special day for the rig and crew of Deepwater Horizon, Transocean’s semi-submersible offshore drilling rig contracted by BP to drill a 20,000 feet exploration well into the Macondo reservoir, situated 4 miles below the ocean surface in the Gulf of Mexico, 41 miles off the SE coast of Louisiana.