Macondo - Deepwater Horizon, The Movie
Macondo - Deepwater Horizon, The Movie
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It's here, almost... in theaters September 30
"This is a definite must see for anyone in the oil & gas industry, or otherwise – quite possibly the action film of the year. The film does not get into the long years of court battles and settlement agreements, but that’s OK, you can read all about it on PennEnergy.com."
Technical review by one of Penn Energy staff.
http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/pennenergy/2016...
"This is a definite must see for anyone in the oil & gas industry, or otherwise – quite possibly the action film of the year. The film does not get into the long years of court battles and settlement agreements, but that’s OK, you can read all about it on PennEnergy.com."
Technical review by one of Penn Energy staff.
http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/pennenergy/2016...





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"Schiefgehen wird, was schiefgehen kann" - das Murphygesetz
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as my all time favorite oil/gas movie. I learned something from that. How you could put out a fire with nitro, or dynamite whatever it was.. I forget. I'll have to see it again. Maybe I'll look for it this afternoon. I wasn't so impressed with "Syriana", even if they did do some filming near where I lived in Spain, portraying that as Morocco or somewhere. I didn't like the Bond film, "The World is Not Enough", even though I worked on the BTC project in Ankara and Erzincan, Turkey for 2 years. Maybe that's why I didn't like it; not very realistic.
If "Deepwater Horizon" presents an accurate technical portrayal, and how it deals with the responsibility issues, it will be easier for me to enjoy the rest. Hopefully the FX will be on the mark, or better will use at least some actual footage. I still have doubts concerning WARP DRIVE.
I'm just looking forward to seeing this film only for its entertainment value for now. Whether it will replace Hellfighters, probably not... John Wayne and all. I'll let you know what I think about that after I see the movie.
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Here's an additional photo showing part of the rig that was going to used to place the explosive package into/near the burning well head. Note the reflective shielding for the machine operator:
Ektachrome slide taken in July 1976 using a Minolta SRT-101
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Relatively authentic except for the bar fight with the Aussies (they were too sober to be real Aussies) and the Venezuelan oil field, which looked more like Bakersfield or maybe somewhere near their Jackson Hole, Wyoming airport scene. I don't think that Venezuela has any oil field in low mountains that have snow on them like that. Looks like the cargo plane landed in Newfoundland or somewhere. I also don't think that any Venezuelan revolutionary forces ever had airplanes, or were active at that time, nor that the VEN Army ever used dune buggys. The fiesta notification on the office wall was authentic, lots of beer, dancing and food... come early. No safety or environmental guys anywhere to be seen.
Deepwater probably can top it, at least by today's standards.
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It appeared pretty authentic, the set was good and the people and roles believable.
It showed up very well the real tensions and pressures that people like the OIM and the company reps are / were under and the issues between the client who is paying for it all and the service provider and the inevitable conflicts, compromises, judgments and issues relating to that. The big company people probably won't like it very much, but I guess it takes a lot of background information from the various reports in the public domain.
Not too much technical stuff about the cement or the "negative pressure test", but enough for a movie audience to understand, not that there were too many in the audience I was at and that only a few days after release.
Once the big bang goes off then it's a bit more standard disaster movie stuff. Difficult to work out where the bangs and shrapnel and flying metal are coming from. The unsung heroes are the guys in the rescue boat getting the life rafts and jumpers out of the water - I think they could have got a bit more air time. Don't know in reality whether a drill rig would normally have had a supply boat on station or not but clearly pretty good for the survivors that it was there.
Don't know if the scene with the derrick was "real" or whether someone / anyone actually tried to start the emergency generators, but it's overall probably a set of scenes best seen in a cinema rather than at home.
Still not sure how this will play to a "general" audience or will actually make any money for the producers. Probably filling out the cinemas in oil towns like Houston, Aberdeen etc, but everywhere else??
So I would say go see it before it rapidly disappears from your local cinema / theater - it's a lot lot better than many oil movies, though like BI I have seen Hell Fighters many times and you can't beat a good John Wayne movie.
Also reminds me why I never really fancied going offshore.....
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I spent one particularly bad, sleepless night on an offshore production platform because I would wake each time in a panic from alarms going off every 15 minutes. I was just visiting, waiting for a boat to come pick me up the next day, so I really wasn't clued in as to what was going on, which only made it that much worse. Fortunately it was just a faulty alarm. At least that's what they told me in the morning. What a miserable night.
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Just goes to show how all those safeguards we allow for in a HAZOP or similar assessment can be defeated by a few key strokes or turn of a few keys.
It's been seen many times before that when all hell is going on that operators can't cope with it all and usually the only thing that shuts down properly is the system which hasn't been "inhibited" or locked off or requires someone to press something. Not that it made much difference in the end, but the scene where they wouldn't press the button to activate the shear rams because they "didn't have the authority" rings fairly true and is unfortunately reminiscent of Piper Alpha when the neighbouring platforms kept pumping gas and Oil despite seeing the flames and not being able to get hold of the control room because they didn't have approval of "the beach".
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Lack of sufficent character development and the director's almost total use of "unsteady" cams made me feel like I was watching somebody else's video game while riding a camel. Go see it on Nov 8th.
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For anyone who hasn't seen it, the documentary 'Fire In The Night' about the Piper Alpha disaster is well worth a watch and a sobering reminder of how easily things can go wrong. It's on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PcDNRSsM24
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Debt
Divorce
Drink (this is onshore remember)
3weeks on/off is for offshore pussies
Try 13/3....
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When the boys with the redwings start talking about "the missus", the first question is which number is this one?
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ScottyUK ... this IS the Failure and Disaster Forum.