Blowout in Oklahoma
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- Опубліковано 29 жов 2019
- A training video for the onshore drilling industry detailing lessons learned from the January 22, 2018, blowout and fire at the Pryor Trust gas well in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, that fatally injured five workers.
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The narrative style of this program makes it as gripping as unsolved mysteries
davidcosine the narrator I’ve heard on many investigation type documentaries. He’s pretty good.
That must be how this showed up in my feed. I watch a lot of true crime mystery
Imagine a detective story but with industrial accidents
like grandpas old war stories!
This shit is strange how interesting it is.
I worked rigs for two years. We were trained for blowouts. But, actually, I learned more practical safety advice in this video than I did in those two years.
For which drilling company,
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@@IA52000
Bomac. This was in Williston Basin, in western North Dakota, way back in 1980 and 1981. Thanks for asking. Yourself?
James McGinn I haven’t worked on rigs sir, I’m a pumper for pioneer resources
What y'all don't get unless ya been there.. In the old days the safety standards pretty much were at the whims of drillers n pushers. You did as ya was Damn well told or they'd run your ass off. Period. Its a world you don't know about and no amount of tv can show you what its like out there. We used to smoke on the rig.. Looking back ... Balsy.
This reminds me of air traffic accident investigations. There is rarely one thing that was ignored, but a whole series of safety procedures that were ignored.
I've been in a driller's cabin before and it felt about as safe as an old mobile home. It felt like the operation had a "cross your fingers" approach.
No matter where u go be it plants, mills, or rigs those lil rooms aren't really safe. They are put in bad locations and there's no reasonable way to build them that would save lives in a massive failure. There needs to be studies done to design their locations better. Right now they are usually in the danger zone bc of employees needing to see. That's not necessary now with the camera tech we have. A lot of plants, mills, and rigs are old and outdated. Companies will do updates that make them money but not updates that don't. I know this bc my family owns and operates and electrical contracting company that works on mills and plants. Mainly mills. We are the ones called in to build mills and update them later. It's rare that we have a request for updating the lil control rooms for safety reasons. When we do get a request it's for comfort reasons and bc some supervisor has been moved to that spot and he's crying about something. We update these rooms to include new a/c systems often but not for safety advancements. We've had one customer this year that has decided to move their control room to a safer location and add in cameras and sensors so they can work from a safe distance. My dad started the contract with them when I was a small child. About 30 years ago. This is the first time they've requested safety updates for that control room. We've updated multiple times for comfort and luxury tho. One customer forked out the cost of having us add on a lil bathroom, new a/c, and new personal computer set up to one of their control rooms to make a new sup happy. In the long run it would've been cheaper to do a new control room in a safer location and tell him to walk to the bathroom like everyone else and tell him he didn't need a personal computer. Companies often throw away money making supervisor happy. Employees know but the public doesn't. When horrible accidents happen that could've been avoided with a lil money, the public would be furious if they knew how much companies waste in keeping supervisors happy and in the luxury they think they are owed. They'll drop a million dollars luxury upgrades and new trucks for supervisors without hesitation but when we make suggestions for safety upgrades they shrug them off if they arent required by some law. They won't do optional upgrades of new tech. They wait until someone in one of the mills dies and OSHA gets all worked up. Then they'll do it after the tech has already been available for years. We had one that added the laser lights on the back of the fork lifts, the light that points on the ground for safety reasons, after one of their employees was backed over and killed. A very cheap upgrade that had been available for years and would've saved her life. The accident was partial her fault bc she was wearing headphones and didn't hear the beeper but if that had put the lights on she would've seen it bc she was bent over picking something up when it happened. She would've seen the light on the ground. U can pass up safety upgrades and expect employees to be as careful as they can. They arent going to. That's just the truth of things. Companies have to protect employees from themselves bc they get too comfortable in their environment and think it won't happen to them. It can and it will
I've never been in a drillers cabin before. I spent a lot of slow drilling night shotin the shit with the driller in the dog house😎
@@lolasmom5816 sounds like a good company
It’s not any protection but close to excape slide
Well the full procedure is cross your fingers, stick your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye. But close enough.
Alarm fatigue is a well-known problem in hospitals. Sounds like oil rigs have the same problem. Thank you for this video!
Heavily known in the tech industry, as well. I think it's safe to assume that alarm fatigue will occur at any location with improperly calibrated and configured alarming systems.
@@ShimrraJamaane , or (as is sometimes the case in a hospital) with alarm systems that are working correctly, but staff levels not sufficient to deal with them all.
Funny you say that. As I was watching the video I kept imagining hospitals. I've been to visit a few people in hospitals lately and I kept seeing alarms go off on the machine that measures vitals. I would see many nurses/assistants come in and not really do anything other than just turn it off and walk back outside.
@@dsandoval9396 , an alarm can indicate something like "the patient scratched their head and partly dislodged the pulse oximeter taped to their finger" or "the IV fluid bag is almost empty"--requiring attention but not necessarily high-priority action. So it's hard to tell from an observer's point of view whether the nurses/CNAs are acting appropriately or not.
in oil and gas there is a lot of work to manage alarm priorities, rationalization, and nuisance alarms.
"No one on the crew had ever done the procedure before, nor did they have any written procedure on how to do it. So they decided to do it." What
I think he was saying that the Patterson drilling company crew - that is the actual technical workers - had never done it. But the representatives of the Red Mountain company, who were directing them to do it, had. In other words, only a small portion of the people actually understood the overall procedure, the rest were just following direct instructions
Just a some bull crap there is not that much of a difference in Calculated fill and continuous fill turn the pump off and on every x amount of stands vs leave it a on but I do like the way they were able to blow enough smoke up these guys ass about the pressure in the well was to much for that trip tank Centrifugal pump was not able to over come it “ pump was not working and went undetected “
Joel Brown switch over the 2in let the pump run baby man we never had a problem tripping but it sounded like they fucked up trying to trip on a live well they should have killed in first there was something wrong was anyone trained in BOP it didn’t sound like it
@@joelbrown7485 There is not a volumetric difference at first sight but there is a huge difference in the piston effect of the both methods of tripping out that you mentioned.
Dorin Radu Well there should be no difference in the amount of volume the hole is going to take on a trip. Only difference in the swabbing of the well is filling every 5 stands or so when you swab the mud has time to fall back down . Continues fill when you stop the mud will fall and be replaced. It just baffles me that some would believe that open ended 2” hose placed at the top of the well bore some how over pressured a centrifugal pump? That pump was just not working for some reason or another. Should of been caught at the first 5 stands.
I had to watch this particular episode as I used to work in Oklahoma doing that exact same thing. I can see exactly how the series of events could have unfolded the way they were described here. We used to work some very long exhausting hours. We eventually started working 12 hour shifts , 2 weeks on , 1 week off to reduce exhaustion. The wells there were pretty deep and after hours of tripping pipe I can understand how lapses of concentration can occur. I left specifically because I thought safety measures weren't observed as strictly as I thought they should have been. It's sad a tragic event like this has to be the reason for any industry to make appropriate changes. I didn't care how good the money was it wasn't worth my life. After being pushed past my breaking point I quit towards the end of my shift and caught a flight home.
All regulations are written in blood. Stuff like this is why I hate libertarians.
About 15 years. Front Range in Western Wyoming to the Texas Panhandle. 17lb mud in a 15,000psi gas field to wells that were completed without a BOP. I enjoyed the work. Sad event here. Just a series of mistakes.
these animations are fantastic. Glad to see hard earned tax payer money being invested into effective, educative, and essential safety adherence. The artist/data analyzt coding these animations deserves a raise, the physics is astonishingly accurate.
I'm just really impressed by the quality of the mud splash simulations
Not that hard to do. It’s just a simple simulation
@@TheRealCheckmate what?
@@TheRealCheckmate first of all I don’t know how to do computer generated graphics but I would use blender
@@Akotski-ys9rr correct, blender is pretty good at simulating fluids, except when it isn't
@@arandomguy4478 Just ask people the people that make porn, those bastards know damn well how to make fluid simulations
I love the addition of the timeline.
Agreed! Also like the little schematic at the left highlighting the location of each event/problem as it's discussed.
me too! i cant imagine how we made do without it!
@@VeganV5912 If someone was selling human breast milk I'd buy it
Leo Licht no one takes you seriously when you use that many emojis
The two "consultants" are called the company man. They call the shots on the well plan. The problem with this well was the mud weight was not thick/heavy enough. The driller and company man can monitor the amount of mud going down hole and the amount coming back. Since they were in the horizontal, there would also be a Directional Driller and MWD hand that also would see those numbers. There should be a balance. More going in than coming out means you have a leak and need to run a sweep (fibrous material or nut shells to clog the leak). If more is coming out than you are pumping in, you immediately circulate (stop drilling and just pump mud) to see if it stabilizes, usually you would thicken up the mud at that time and continue to thicken it until the well was balanced. There are formulas that can be used to calculate the hole pressure by the amount of mud returning and what mud weight is needed to regain the balance. This is very basic and happens every day. To say they were not trained is inaccurate, they just didn't do it. The company man and drillers screwed up. You don't send mud down hole from the trip tank, all mud going down hole goes through the mud pumps. That is just misinformation.
They new there were issues, they were getting kick backs and had to run a flare. If they did not significantly increase the mud weight then that is on the Company Man. Adding weight to the mud costs money and can plug up the whole requiring extra circulations and possible reaming. There is no logical reason that the well over-pressure was not addressed except expense or some company dogma that you had to follow a plan irregardless of the reality of the well information.
The alarm thing should not really be a factor. There are not that many alarms, especially while tripping. Pull weight and mud flow are the only ones that matter. You don't really need an alarm on these as you should be watching them constantly. If other alarms were going off, then they were likely set wrong.
There already are formal procedures to address this, they just weren't followed. The company man and driller already failed to follow the basics, they would not have followed even more procedures. The warning signs were clear, it seems they were completely ignored and it cost 5 people their lives.
That about covers it quite well.
my dad drills wells, and he was giving me a lesson on that today about how the mud needs to be heavier and if it's not add steal balls to make it heavier as well as more mud. i'm not too fluent in this with being him just giving me 1 lesson but i can see where he's going from this.
@@ohBluur steel is not the usual weighting material, but the point is accurate: the mud needed to be heavier, and that condition should have been convincingly solved before the trip out ever began.
@@SpamSucker agreed
If you’ve never filled the well with a trip tank while tripping, you are lacking knowledge in that area. You should not be gaining volume while pulling out of the hole as well. You aren’t 100% wrong, but missing information and slightly mistaken.
"The night shift driller had turned off the alarm system..." Pass me an oven glove, this is gonna be an epic face palm.
The next day shift driller came in and did the same thing. The majority of the alarms weren't relevant to the procedure they were implementing and as the video describes were of little use to prevent this from happening even if they were on. Unfortunately there was no way to turn off the alarms that could be ignored and focus on the ones they needed.
Bulk carriers in the Great Lakes have so many alarms going off from assumed redundant systems during offloading of material. I'm surprised I haven't been killed yet from my superiors ignoring them. They literally go off every second. So people just turn them off because nothing extreme has happened. :/
My old workplace did that all the time for turning off the alarms. Only that the machine I was working on could not disable the alarm and someone had to manually override warnings EACH time so someone sat next to the button 8 hours a day overriding the machine for each job
"The day shift driller also turned off the alarm system" There is something wrong with whatever training these guys are getting.
People turn these off to be able to get 1 or 2 hrs of uninterupted sleep.
These jobs are not your usual 9-5.
And that's what happens when you have an incorrectly configured system giving you useless alarms. The alarms coming up were irrelevant most of the time due to the wrong configuration, people got used to them, nothing ever happened, the habit of turning the sound off got passed down to new employees..
It's easy feeling smart watching the whole picture from outside.
9:19 Workers in CSB animations always have such a pimp-ass strut to them.
Thats the pride before the fall
Dude just got laid...
@@louisimisson9065 ?
Paul Brown the 'pimp ass' strut makes the animated people look very proud, and the fall is the accidental death and injury that happens to them in these videos
Huge balls just saying...
"The Oklahoma laws are not focused on safety, but rather on maximizing production"
Imagine that
Hold up, you're trying to tell me the laws were written to benefit the corporations over the workers? Oh that's just rich.
@@samsngdevice5103
>The CSB
>Misleading and junky content
Pick one and only one
REALLY!
@@samsngdevice5103 The commentator is repeating almost verbatim what the CSB said in the video. I think they are pretty trustworthy.
red state politics for you
I love watching these. I’m a nurse in the Scottish highlands but I have lots of friends who work offshore in the North Sea and one guy I went to school with is in charge of the mud on an oil rig.
You're Scottish. Do you believe in leprechauns 😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😢
I was a driller for Patterson for five years during the slow down they put me on that rig (219)about a year prior to this preventable disaster and i had mentioned to the superintendent (Jacob)and areamanager (chad) that it was dangerous out there and how nobody was killed or seriously injured would beat all I know I parted ways with Patterson one of the five guys I knew well from Patterson 132 my heart goes out to his family..and to the other four that lost there lives that day
Regulations are written in blood.
And checks are written to politicians to repeal or weaken those regulations.
@@rocketraccoon1976 Yup.
It has always been that way. It is difficult to foresee every possible problem that can occur in an operation of any kind. Experience is the teacher. Unfortunately the teacher can be severe.
And erased with money.
This had nothing to do with evil corporations, this was some typical cowboy clown hotshot behavior that got people killed.
I have no clue about the oil and gas industry, nor do I have a remote clue on why this showed up on my recommended videos, but I was still glued to this video. Excellent production and very good information. I have found a new channel to binge watch
Jorge Fernandez The production values are excellent and the explanations are clear and logical. Applied science at its best.
Welcome to the community. Where we share each other's wives... Woops! Sorry, wrong community.
... Welcome to the horrific accident voyeurs community.
Yeah, there we go. That's nice.
Welcome to the csb community
@@Kuzyapso I prefer the accident voyeurs/swingers moniker.
Self-depreciation is a medicine.
Im repairing a Hydraulic Bottle Jack (its super rusty) and searched Hidrolik blow out because im retarded and cant spell.
Thats how i got here
What gets me is that there is an option to turn off life saving alarms
As the video mentions different modes of operation. I would guess that removing the drill involves dozens of things that shouldn't happen while the drill is running normally, so the alarm would go off the entire time even when everything was working as expected.
It's probably more of a silenceing option. So as to not distract the operator.
An alarm isn't really effective if it fails to alert you to anything serious, due to it being silenced OR due to overexposure because it blares at absolutely everything.
@@Soandnb The latter can be termed the "Boy who cried wolf" problem. It's the reason car alarms are of little use anymore.
In situations like this have an alarm always going off if everything is normal. If everything suddenly goes quiet you'll notice a lot more than if another noise is added to normal operations. Where I work is a warehouse with some automation. Several horns, sirens, mechanical noises, pallets slamming, et cetera are constant. When no alarms are going off, and there's no noise from machinery... I get very concerned. It makes me want to ask why everything *appears* to suddenly be running very smoothly. Usually it is due to something being shut off for a restart... But disaster only takes one misstep...
The sound design in this is so well done too. I generally prefer criticizing the government but damn they do a good job here.
It's disappointing that these kinds of videos need to be made, but the quality of these videos is so good.
can you imagine getting trapped in that shipping container with 4 other guys and not immediately dying but being surrounded and trapped by fire then cooked and cremated? Lord almighty, that was not fun.
Well its inevitable regardless of how safe we try to work just by the complicated nature of getting these high pressure hydrocarbons out, but they are always preventable in hindsight..
It seems kind of obvious: but a back door and covered/sealed stairwell to outside and away from rig. Emergency egress from an initial point of safety should always be considered in the engineering of rigs.
The thing that irks me, is the professors doing the investigations and writing regulations have never worked one minute on an actual rig.
@@kowalityjesus lack of back route escape door is really baffling. Well, it is easy to say now, but location and escape method from the drilling control room really needs improvements.
Wait wait wait. You're telling me I get 2 USCSB videos in the same month!? I remember seeing the preliminary animation y'all posted of this one. Very happy to see it finished!
I wish we had none every month
@@grrmonkey Right. They're just so expensive to make. Not so much the video but the expensive disaster for the story. Lol.
I wish we could all be part of the team for production
I love them. I am hoping for one of the ITC tank fires in Houston.
Having been watching a lot of these videos lately the “time frame” at the bottom makes things 100% better. Not that they were bad to begin with.
Agreed, the narrator calling out the time of the different events doesn't give a great sense of the intervals between them. Without the "time bar" filling in conjunction, I am constantly taking a moment to do the math on how many min have passed since the last callout, and then to calculate how long the whole situation has been unfolding. While this is not difficult, it has become tedious, and sometimes I skip it. Without it, the whole exposition might as well only have one timestamp.
Anybody else binging these highly informative and well produced animations?
I started watching one video yesterday, now it's been 6 hours watching CSB videos, even though I don't work in dangerous places. These videos are excellent, very professional and informative. I would say mandatory for people who works in dangerous places.
Alarms are usually turned off or muted. The mud man should have been looking at the tanks also. I worked on a couple Patterson, Ensign, and Nabors rigs - and most are a death trap. At least H&P rigs has the drillers house facing transversely to the rig floor leaving the rear exit open - and they all have spring loaded “no touch handles” where you could just kick it open.
Stay safe my fellow oil patch brothers - if you see something wrong, say something & Everyone has stop job authority!
Nabors x-rigs especially, gotta run down 4 flights of stairs to get outta there lol
If mud started pouring I'd run far away from possible explosion
Hmmmm, everyone has job stop authority, I highly doubt that. I bet you open your mouth about safety issues and you're replaced immediately. The SLAVEMASTERS are only concerned with profits.
James Smith - - It’s obvious that you don’t know what you’re talking about, and never worked on a rig. My guess you’re probably not an employer either (or as you would call it, “slavemaster”).
Also, the oil patch “slavemasters” happen to employ millions - both blue and white collared employees that are compensated very well - w/degrees or not. One of the few industries that open doors to move up, transfer, and endless learning.
Now move on elsewhere with your little Bernie Bro comments and do something productive with your life instead of bitching how oppressed you are.
@@TheDnlnext thanks, don't really care how compensated they are, or about endless learning. Guess there's lots to learn after accidents, especially when preventable. Kinda like them clowns at BP learned when they destroyed the Gulf. Oh, don't assume I feel oppressed, but as for mankind, yes we are oppressed. They won't teach that at oil school.
Announcement: No corporate "suits" were harmed in the making of this video.
5 workers killed... Corporate most affected.
they weren't able to get a new yacht that year 😥, and some even had to find new positions!
What a dumb, hateful comment. Great idea, let's have all upper management on-site at all times.
@@ondrahalouzka8572 you miss the mark completely. Let's not have as much upper management with bonkers salaries being paid out to watch others work and then turn around and "pearl clutch" when something happens.
@@ondrahalouzka8572 Imagine simping for suits 😂
If they thought they could get away with 5 deaths a year as "acceptable loss" and increase profit margins 10% they wouldn't hesitate for a second
Anyone that has worked in an industrial setting knows how easily this accident could happen. When you're tired and under a deadline, it's safety 3rd. What a terrible way to leave this world.
Is it just me, or are these videos about industrial accidents more fascinating and suspenseful than most feature length films these days?
Chernobyl?
It is more fascinating because you know it's real, it's presented perfectly, and you aren't getting jarred loose from your eye-teeth by Dolby 2000 Surrounding Earthquake Sound System!
I like how they put the experts involved in the investigation on camera.
As a Control Systems Engineer who works on live refinery systems, I greatly appreciate these videos. I carry the lessons learned and recommendations with me. There are many others out there like me. Thank you CSB for helping prevent more tragedies like this one.
Me too and alarm overload was a big problem when we started to move to DCS systems as process engineers like to alarm every thing.
Outstanding video. I work in the IT industry and learned things I can apply to my profession (state based alarm profiles). Rarely do you come across informative videos of this quality. Thank you!
As IT worker what kind programmer coded you need to learn to create software programs like in this video?
Alarm management has also been an issue in nuclear power control rooms; it definitely seems like this is a problem across multiple industries. As mentioned in the video, there definitely should be different sets of alarms for different activities. However, there should also be different levels of alarms for those activities. If a driller was getting annoyed by all the alarms, they should be able to turn off the lower-level alarms and/or mid-level alarms without disabling the high-level alarms.
Oklahoma should be proud they are the only state to get over 10 recommendations from the csb
Everything about these videos is extremely high quality, and the narrator deserves a standing ovation.
This has to be probably one of my fav channels now. I appreciate seeing these free safety-hazard videos even though I dont even got a job yet.
I love these accident assessment videos. I learn so much and they are quite engaging.
Your check engine light is on - nah, the engine is still there.
hilarious!!! Never heard that before...hilarious!
DM4LX in a nutshell..
I gotta tell Dad that joke!
I just checked, still looks like an engine to me!
It's just a bulb; it'll burn out.
LMAO @ 8:50 - "they worked to clear the blockage" ... dude's just going ham on it with a wrench
that's about all you can so except try to wash upward with a hose.
Just the other day I went in to my night shift for the boiler room, and the guys I was relieving told me about an alarm that kept going off for low/high water levels in the deaerator tank. For about 4 hours all they did was manually operate the valve every 10 minutes, but they just couldn't be bothered to actually look for the cause.
I went to look and it was literally the first thing I checked: a loose set screw on the shaft that linked the float to the valve. Took not even 5 minutes to fix.
Some people just don't think
I have some stories about Deaerator storage tanks.. but it is only too often something very simple that is mucking.
I remember once a Turbine wouldn't run once you put load on it, even 500kw (10 mw steam turbine. So here are all the experts poking around trying to figure out what's what.. and this new kid (no exp) shows up, and picks this bolt up and it was the pin that was the pivot on the inlet control.. He just asked 'What's this for? Found it on the floor.' 2 minutes later, we were pushing full load.
I know exactly what your talking about.
When i have men’s life in my hands I will listen to every alarm,and make sure they make it home to their family.
That is very noble of you, but in a poorly managed system, you may not be able to keep up. 1 alarm/10 minutes is considered the threshold rate that an operator can handle, but most alarm systems do not achieve this.
The blame lies squarely on management. Videos like this remind us that management must ALWAYS have a plan to develop an adequate alarm system.
@@Don2006 i appreciate that you left this comment. it's very easy to lay blame at the foot of the operator, and in fact, for many companies, the system is designed to offload risk, externality, culpability, etc all onto the operators on the ground; a replaceable fall guy that can be pilloried when things go wrong. in reality, though, blame lies with the safety environment in the workplace, and that lies solely at the feet of management. things like ever-present alarms that get disabled are commonplace. people don't realize that in a lot of industries like oil & gas, taking prudent action in the interest of safety is PUNISHED if it interferes with production. that becomes a larger workplace culture issue that hugely influences how people do their job, and can silence that internal voice of reason that says "wait, this isn't right".
I am so glad to see the CSB have the budget to make videos like this.
There is no doubt you are saving lives and promoting postive change in industry!
They just need a covered emergency escape slide out the back of the cabin. I used to work for a company that made airbag propellant and we had breakaway walls and escape slides. It shouldn't be too much of a problem to fit an existing model.
@Quantum Passport But the "gas company" doesn't own the rig. There is a reason why drilling contractors exist - to take on the risk.
These are so interesting and well put together... Reminds me of watching history channel after school in early 2000's... Ahhh nostalgia
Thank you for a great video!
I've seen a hundred or so people killed in thirty-five years of heavy construction/pipeline. That was nearly me a dozen or so times. It was almost always due to lack of adherence to safety procedures. They have those procedures for a reason. Keep your witts about you, eyes and ears open, and watch out for your coworkers.
I always just start crying when i hear "had turned off the alarm system"
its always the same
'had over ridden the safety mechanism'
'had turned the alarm off'
'had ignored the systems warning'
etc
What is worse is that they said the alarms were useless.
@@niyablake thats true, RIP to the 5 workers terrible accident
@@BYOJuan Ugh!
I help in a workshop. And i dont have a lot to do with the work thats going on.
But i do tell a lot of people to "next time, wear goggles" and "a face mask would be in order when you're creating that much dust" because XYZ hazards.
They would probably also fire me if i wasn't the IT guy upstairs.
No warning or safety mechanism should be over written, thrown off, turned off or other wise tampered with. Those alarms have one job and they do them well. Keep your ass safe. No matter the job or money. Your safety should always be top priority, even if the company doesn't think so.
Having worked both on- and off-shore rigs when young, I know the hard, physical labor of the hands and the mind-numbing grind of the monitors/operators. The work is in all kinds of weather and the dirt, mud, and grime covers you and gets into places you didn't know you had. The pressure for progress/results from the suits above is as constant and relentless as the noise of the machinery.
However, things can get real fast when near the "pay zone". When tunneling blind into the hot, gassy bowels of the earth, every subtle change must be noted, interpreted, and responded to quickly. Everybody needs to on the ball, trained and prepared to deal with whatever comes out of that hole, especially during a trip.
I feel great sorrow for all the families, and especially for the three doomed roughnecks on that freezing, slick drilling floor who tried to find cover in that death-trap cabin.
My take is this -- jackleg drillers, jackleg operators, a jackleg contractor, and a jackleg corporation conducting an extremely hazardous jackleg operation in a deregulated jackleg state run by pro-industry jackleg politicians.
The poor, piteous victims were burnt offerings to the gluttonous Gods of Greed.
Well said.
i'd call it akin to working on an aircraft carrier goin full tilt in persian gulf :)
Pogue Mahone you have a picture of trump committing suicide. stfu you never worked on a rig, only stories you’ve heard that you’re repeating
I didn't know all oil rig workers are trump supporters!
scose yup pretty much, if you worked in the oilfield you’d know
The CSB makes me almost want to pay taxes, that's a feat that i thought wouldn't be possible
@@justinepaula-robilliard That would be wonderful. But until then, taxation remains theft.
They are funded 13 million a year. They should have a few more videos a month
@@patjohn775 the videos accompany their investigations. They’ve uploaded a video for nearly every investigation they’ve done as of late. Most of the time would be in the investigation, not the production of the video, although I’m sure that takes some time as well.
@@SkigBiggler what a dilemma. I simultaneously want more videos, but less accidents. The tragic irony
After watching this video it shows more training is needed for all the drilling works. The loss of life is always sad. I did learn some new things about the drilling industry thank you.
This is fantastic work done by the USCSB. The quality of your rendition and the user-friendliness thereof is fantastic. Thank you so much.
That was well said, and I 2nd that! 👍
So I was only ever a rough neck on a single ... but I remember stopping periodically in a trip... the boys would go for a smoke.. and someone would watch the trough to see if any mud was coming out of the hole. At night you would throw a little sawdust down to see if it moved. If there was any flow coming out you would notify the driller that you were taking a kick. A simple precaution but it would seem that was not followed.. and I was on a rig from 2007 to 2011. Besides that the derrick hand would be responsible for mud ... an increase of 200 barrels of mud which would be over 30 cubes... I can not see how the derrick hand would not have noticed his tanks gaining such volume?!! On a single that would be almost double the total mud volume. Also I was a rig hand in Alberta Canada drilling for oil not gas... so the procedures are most definitely different. Ok... edit here... I wrote this at 15:00 into the video... so just a minute later they describe what i'm talking about.. a flow check. Only 2 of 27 required flow checks were done!! OMG.
This is a train wreck of no training and totally ignoring regulations. How the Derrick hand missed the well gaining that much mud I have no idea
Questions for ya, how long should the flow check have lasted? Obviously they didn’t preform enough; I wonder if they didn’t perform the flow check fir long enough
@@davyt0247 That would be determined by the consultant and the specs for that hole... but generally about 10 mins... long enough for the boys to get a piss a smoke and a fast bite.
Paul Carpenter so I wasn’t crazy thinking that 45 seconds wasn’t anywhere near long enough
@@davyt0247 45 seconds isn’t shit when checking for flow. Patterson stated that a flow check should be 15 minutes. But, I’ve had Rig managers tell me that 4 minutes was sufficient.
I work in a completely different field (networking) and I can attest to the fact that alarms don't mean much when they are drowned out by irrelevant ones. So much of my shift I spent chasing down pointless alarms when in fact only a few of them actually mean something that needs to be fixed, the rest are just normal events that don't even need to alarm in the first place. The problem is that if they turned off the hundreds of garbage alarms, then one or two actually needed alarms would be eliminated along with them. Its a tricky problem and only a complete overhaul of the monitoring system can solve that
Yep, I once had a job where all night some stupid alarm was being triggered from like 300 miles away (literally - a radio system). What was annoying was that because they made the alarm unsilencable we had to totally turn off the system which WAS a safety issue. False alarms are bogus and bad for safety.
I don't know what it says about me that since I saw the first CSB video in my feed yesterday I have been binge watching videos where bad things happen--I can't get enough of this stuff,it is just so damn interesting watching videos about how refineries work etc,just great ,man if I pay $6.99 a month for Prime I would happily pay that for this stuff.-and as for the animation quality-well that speaks for itself-incredible.Thank You USCSB. cheers from Australia.
I'm actually glad these videos are monitized, if the government won't give you the funds you need then please take it from where you can get it. We get high quality videos and valuable lessons / insight and you get some $$$, win win.
As a government agency, I highly doubt they can collect non standard incomes like UA-cam money. Or if there is a provision for accepting the money direct from UA-cam, I would wonder if it still didn't extend to things like patreon cause I'd totally pay
@V. V wtf
@V. V Are you ok? Absolutely nothing in your crazy rant makes any sense.
You'd think a fire escape would be pretty high priority on an oil rig
Had one, but door was hinged in a way that impeded its use. (swung out left, blocking access to the stairs on the left also. Simple things are often hard to see at first withoout a design standard/checklist.
@@driller43 exactly! You often dont think about the little things untill you need them, which is often too late. Thats why I believe its important to have a set of safety standards across the drilling industry as the USCSB recommends
Pfft. The derrick man has a zipline from the top of the rig to the bottom of the rig at a 70 degree angle where at best he will break his legs during an emergency. They do alot of safety, but this in particular and several other things still need to change.
@@texasfossilguy I kinda miss workin derricks, i guess thats why im here.
@@greatalaska6429 Being a derrick hand like I was then you know this blow out could have been prevented. As a derrick hand we watched the pits, mixed mud and if they're gaining well that's a sign. I enjoyed the work, money too.
I can't stop watching at these videos. Binge watching before sleep. I work in construction so i have interest in safety
Can’t wait to see any investigation on Baton Rouge construction collapse
The way H&P designs their drillers cabins, they're positioned straight out away from rig and have rear exit and stairway. Far safer and on a whole different level than Patterson
Silencing Any Alarm is Extremely Dangerous ' Even When it Keeps Tripping '
That was my rig and my crew thankfully I left to go to H&P right before this happened. Anyway, we almost never did flow checks, the alarms were almost always deactivated while tripping, and Josh the day tour driller really liked cold beer... He was a great guy. But, drank almost every day when we knocked off. I believe all of these things are responsible for this terrible incident. I reported the slow descent device in the derrick was locked up and it was never fixed this caused the Derrickhand who was working over to get 3rd degree burns over half his body. He wound up sliding down the geronimo line by wrapping his arms and legs around the cable then reportedly let go about thirty feet from the ground. I don't know how the fall didn't kill him. Y'all stay safe and God bless.
Michael Parks: I'm confused why didn't they close the blowout preventer??
Guys I don't trust God, I think he did this and other things. Stay safe and trust no one.
@@jesusisreal3209 They tried. But, the rubber hoses burnt up before the rams closed all the way.
@@electronicpizzaparlor I promise you. Jesus is exactly who He said He is. Jesus is my Lord.
@@michaelparks7563 ohh man. Watching that video brought me into perspective how dangerous that work is based on the flammable gas released while drilling, the whole protocol to deal with it seems like a big compromise.
I'm surprised there isn't more blowouts. the danger of fire and literally being burned alive trapped, would have assumed the driller and worker's would take their job with the utmost prudent impartial discernment professionalism
I've watched a number of these and am always impressed by the high quality CGI.
The problem with safety rules at most organizations is that a lot of times they're annoying to comply with, and just make busy work for no reason.......so you have to design safety systems that are only in place for serious dangers, and are as simple as possible to comply with. If it involves a lot of unnecessary stuff, it will get turned off or ignored on a day-to-day basis.
Without rules no matter boring you get these kind of accidents hapening
OK, I'm going to tell you some truth. First, I worked for Patterson UTI for a year. Yes, I was new to the industry, and really had no idea what 'roughnecking' was when I started. I tripped pipe on my first day. Over 3,000' worth. Anyhow - five months into my employment I noticed my that our lead tong, motor man, and derrick man where all avoiding me and the driller. I just thought, ok, it's another 'you're the new guy' thing they did. Nope - all high as hell on Coke and whatever else you wanna say. All I know is I've never seen someones eyes that dilated in my entire life, for hours on end. Had to be coke... anyhow, when I said something about it I was told to shut up and do my damn job, "worm". The usual uneducated response from any Patterson UTI employee. The VERY NEXT DAY I was working with some guy who spoke 0 english and we were moving pipe from the stand deck to the slip, prepping for a teardown and relocation. I stepped onto the pipe rack and standing carefully started moving pipe into place. This non-english speaking employee grabbed the all terrain fork truck and tried to grab a stack of pipe, spilling the pipe all over, and one landed directly on my leg. Snapped it like a twig. The company sent out their 'company man / safety man' from Levelland, TX to take me to the hospital in Hobbs where they agreed I had a broken leg. Not that it was pointing in the wrong direction or anything. I told the safety man about the drugs and the unsafe practice and was told not to worry about it, they would take care of it and my leg. Well, yes, I had surgery and my leg was healed. Patterson UTI then stopped sending me my checks at my house, forcing me to drive an hour to Hobbs, NM from Carlsbad, NM to get my check every other week. I went to every doctor check up, followed procedure, etc. but was yelled at and berated every single day as a 'pussy' or worse because I had a broken leg (that I could NOT stand on) and that I was dead weight. The driller even tried to fire me the day after the accident because I was in surgery and didn't make it to the drill site (not that I could anyhow....). The safety man showed up and fired 3/4 of the crew. Piss tested every single one of us, and all that was left was me and the biggest asshole driller I've ever met in my life. (and the company man who would get mad and throw tools and sharp objects at you)
Hired a new crew and got back to work. Driller threatened me with my life at knife point right outside the porta-jons. I told Patterson UTI who basically said, "who cares".
Oh - our BOP (blow out prevention) didn't work for the first two months on the rig. We where nearly 8,000' before they dug the exhaust fire trench because 'ain't nothin gonna happen'. I watched them pour motor oil down ground hog holes straight out of the engines when we changed over. I told their safety man about that... nothing happened. Smoking on the rig was permitted if you stayed in the dog house... because, nobody has time to walk off the pad.
Back to the leg - they kicked me to the curb once I was told I could walk again. I was told I would be contacted by them to settle for the damage they did to my body, but never did. Their office personnel kept loosing my checks (hoping to make me quit). When I didn't quit my driller (or someone, never got the full story) made up a story that I was neglectful and endanger everyone on the rig. Which surprised the ever lovin' sh*t out of me because I constantly tried to improve safety... never got the whole BS story.
Patterson UTI has a record of being neglectful. They lie, cheat, and steal from their employees. They don't follow safety LAWS and best practices, and go out of their way to ensure you are never compensated. Hey - must be great for the investors to screw over anyone you can, no matter what it does to their body because you can't follow the most basic rule of DONT DO COCAINE BEFORE WORKING ON A RIG!
If you are thinking of working for P-UTI, don't. Just about ANY other rig will be a better, more safe environment. Good luck guys. F*ck Patterson-UTI.
Par for the course for many of these companies. Thanks for relaying your story.
Aaron Kassaw Geez bro if you can’t get a long with ANY rig crews then you’re probably a bad hand. Thats how it always is, shitty hands are treated bad. Not saying it’s okay but thats how the oil fields are. You should have never got into the industry. You also shouldn’t have been standing next to the forklift when he was picking up drill pipe. That’s common knowledge. Or you should have hand signals to guide the forklift operator to pick the pipe up safely. Your best bet is a lawsuit. They’re free actually. But could win you lots of money, just be wary of statue of limitations.
Good luck and best wishes. Lawsuits take alot of time and energy, but you might consider it. Just telling your story to the "right" people makes a difference.
sounds like they need to be unionized
LAWSUITS ARE A VERY SERIOUS BAD
JOKE LESSON, SOMETIMES...
It’s never one mistake, it’s a series of errors one after another that in hindsight leaves you shaking your head like WTF!
Samuel Taylor: In industry, this is a common phenomenon known as "cascade failure". It is insidious and virtually impossible to trace to source in time to prevent disaster; which is why this video was produced after investigation (as is common) and took a year to trace the sequence of events leading to this tragedy. The video outlines the entire cascade failure, and hopefully will be an invaluable tool for industry correction, should they wish to put safety before profit.
Look up the "Swiss cheese" model of failure for some insight in to how these cascade failures keep happening.
After reading that, this will make sense "No matter how many layers of cheese you have, eventually the holes will all line up".
Such an atmospheric opening.. class fade to black after the logo, with establishing music you can just imagine this being the opening to a movie. I love the production values of the CSB
Great video! Shows what a complicated and high-tech business drilling is.
RIP those workers.
Thanks for the upload and breakdown USCSB.
I love these videos. So well done and informative I wish they’d release them more often
The quality of this video was all sizzle no steak. They never even mentioned it but the first thing that came to my mind was why didn't one of the 5 guys in the drillers cabin close the blind rams. Did the rig manager or the drilling supervisor attempt to close the blind rams using the second set of controls. And if rig manager or the drilling supervisor did not attempt to close the blind ram why not. Pinning this on the alarm fatigue and saying that it's the alarm system that needs to be fixed is a white wash. The fish stinks from the head. Shitty rig managers and well site supervisor it shouldn't come as a surprise to any one the crew was incompetent.
" irrelevant alarms." Maybe next time they'll install some relevant ones.
The work you people do is both necessary and worthwhile. It’s sad that these events happen to begin with and concerning the consequences of failure in our industrial systems.
You can't depend on alarms!
You need people that understand the process and are watching the gauges and listening to the team.
False alarms are still a very dangerous problem.... While from the little I know about what a driller sees what I do know is that its a fair bit of rapidly changing information, with out alarms there is a lot to keep track of.
@@andrewyork3869 Bad operators are a dangerous problem as well, like the type that disable alarms and don't pay attention to the equipment.
@@adamruck that is true.
My work is kinda similar in SOC, if you know the process well, there are better gigs for you than watching out for alarms.
You got it in one ☝️ when the boss came on the rig , he worked with us . On the floor, he would talk to each one. Then when he had his dinner.. then he would talk to Woodside people, not before. Mr Roy R , you are a true Boss . Mr R
Always have time for USCSB vids!
I think it should be impossible to turn alarm systems off; but also that the important alarms are displayed separately
I have no idea about this industry. But the narrators voice and the animations and sound effects are so captivating.
Worms!! I missed a rig burning down by a day. The burned out shell that was the rig was a sobering experience to see
This is just a train wreck of no common sense, poor training and not following SOPs....
the part where a couple of kids see the well is flowing and do not report that is the scariest. that company needs to be shut down and prosecutions of the training staff management need to happen.
yeah, that's two truck loads of mud in pit gain...WTF ?
@Clifton Green I agree, It was just the way the report was presented was like under/mis-trained personnel and not taking what would appear to be warning signs seriously... I work in engineering/manufacturing and the amount of SOPs for what seems like common sense is absurd; like don't stand under a heavy load- because people have stood under a heavy load and been crushed. No entering confined spaces without metering the air and having a fresh air supply... I encounter a lot of people that don't think for themselves or fully understand what they are doing. I may be pushing my standards on other people and just assume when something isn't going normally you don't just push ahead and shutting off warning alarms.
Crazy how they let them fully disable the alarms indefinitely though.
@@FragEightyfive if your rig is taking a kick and your hands see the mud flowing...they are undertrained about the dangers of drilling. if they had the slightest clue about what flowing mud meant they should have ran to the driller or push to report it, that is a lack of training and it got at least 5 guys dead.
And inexperienced or ineffective management on site. A pusher or operator who sees a well flaring hard with no circulation should have known that the mud was too light to control the well.
I would love to work for csb. I find these videos so fascinating.
Had few jobs on an oil rig where they needed survey for measurements from ground floor to KRB(?). I got to meet the riggers and company men, They were great people. Never met a group of men like them. I enjoyed conversating and meeting them. Nothing but respect to those guys.
The driller was probably related to one of the executives. Didn't know what he was doing, but he was being paid big bucks.
This was 100% preventable, I shake my head.
@V. V This was not a freak accident. Good drilling practices were not followed, which resulted in a series of predicable failures. The loss of well integrity here was entirely preventable, poor training and procedures killed these men.
Everything is 100% preventable with hindsight.
Almost all are, greed is usually the route too
Just the size of the flare should have been enough to tell the crew that the well was flowing. But they didn’t stop. Entirely preventable
Just like car accidents Bc of texting and driving, drinking and driving too.
I hate those kinds of deaths-avoidable, unnecessary deaths. Off the topic, tomorrow (New Years eve day) will mark my third funeral in 10 days. Covid19. ATP I don’t even want to go into the church.
Do you think covid19 deaths are preventable and unnecessary? Just curious 💭
Your videos are so interesting, intelligent and informative!
Im addicted to binge watching these for no reason
I work in this industry so I have a little insight. Stupid people will do stupid things.
wow . That s some insight bro . lol
Maybe not insight but if you think something bad cant happen to you, you are just bidding your time and thats pretty stupid thinking. Spend enough time in a high risk occupation and something bad will happen. Its all about you noticing it and reacting to it.
And they will take smart people with them.
The first problem to this is that you have to eliminate the "culture" on rigs where it's cool to get away with something if the safety man didnt see it... Those rules are there for a reason people, so why are you standing idly by and allowing cultures like this to be fostered without stepping in? 99% of all rule breaking or anti-safety rule cultures start with a total lack of proper and supportive management...
GreatDaneLoverz Amen, if you’ve got supportive management and supervisors it trickles down, the men have to know that safety is important and won’t be ignored.
Yeah, i dont want to know how many lives were lost because of the stupid "WE VS. THE MANAGEMENT + THEIR STUPID RULES" mindset,
There is an issue with heavy safety rule enforcement, the safety rules are not always relevant to the task at hand so enforcing rules that are not relevant just because they are rules enforces the perception that the rules are pointless.
One of the factors in this disaster was the alarm system constantly alerting the operator of conditions that were not relevant to the task at hand, which caused the operator to turn off the alarm system and thus miss alarms relevant to the task at hand.
@@AvNotasian this, information overload is a real thing.
NotAsian preach it we need REAL safety in industries NOT the BS safety handed down by governments or God forbid LAWYERS. Real safety doesn’t nit pick the small things it builds up the good things. Promotes the guys that believe in real safety not the guys writing JSAs. Remember WORK comes before safety! If you can’t pay for it then how are you going to have it.
I don’t know anything about these things but I’m addicted to this page.
This is very thorough.. As a mud logging field hand for 20 years this is negligence at an incredible level..
I worked for Patterson UTI for a while before I went to another company. I left because I remember thinking to myself that someone was gonna get hurt or killed on one of those rattle trap rigs they had in the Barnett shale. Scary man.
Mike105 i worked on the frac side and felt the same way so i left
I got hurt on a Patterson rig and was asked not to file a workers comp claim. When I did I was terminated.
Gotta love good old SPLATTERSON in the DFW. Them POS rigs were everywhere.
Patterson Is a good company I worked on their new 800 series rigs. Things aren’t the same these new rigs are well designed. What happened here was because of bad habits that for a while you can get away with.
@@JTTodd-pn5sd This happened in 2018 though
Amazing job as always! Sadly I've lived in a few buildings that have insane alarms going off randomly sometimes for days, a "cry wolf syndrome " happens every time.
I worked for deep well Energy Services and we would move that drilling rig like twice a week. That crew was outstanding and they work their asses off it sucks to hear that a bunch of those dudes got killed.
Brilliant PPT Thank you USCSB I will use this in my class for demo
Your graphics are getting better with every new video. Very impressive.
I have a friend that's been working on well rigs in Alaska for 20 plus years. This video is definitely getting linked to him.
Shutting off the alarm is a big no no when I worked as a DCS operator in a thermal power plant. But we had a very good alarm management and received a very good training.
12:00 Yup my dad, a roughneck, also always turned off all warning alarms on machines where I grew up. Never locked-out tagged-out either. Often disconnecting safety systems completely and the warning lights. I have no idea how I survived.
Your truly lucky to be breathing, those old school idiots were freaking braindead. 😒 😳 😣
The guys doing your 3D animation are awesome... The fire and smoke effects look great!
Finally a new video 🤩🤩🤩 will you guys do a video on the ITC deer park incident that happened a while back?
I'm sure they will. That was a disaster! That place has had a lot of trouble thru the years
Thank you for this training, I feel competent to work as an onshore driller now. I bet I could bluff any interview, if I talk about mud buckets and cripping
Tripping, not cripping… good luck with that interview
This is definitely one of favourite uscsb investigation videos.
This channel produces incredibly high quality and informative work and I would just like to say thank you for that.
Jesus... that must’ve been a gruesome scene inside the driller’s cabin after the fire burned out..
There probay wasnt evough to even bury.
I think they died almost instantaneously when all the gas flashed over, normally you suck in the flame which is a quick death at least. No, I would not have wanted to be the first responder.
Thank god there dead . Such nerd s . Who need s em . lol
at leasst it's pre cooked
@@kg4boj There'd be enough to bury, most of the fire would have headed upward after the initial explosion. Might be hard to identify who was who though, and those caskets would have been pretty light.
Right on. Thanks for sharing.