I figured it was because of some effect caused by the unit entering the oil flow. Maybe the oil being less dense than the watwr caused a the cylinder to suddenly increase in weight? Or perhaps it acted as some sort of nozzle for the oil as it went out the other side? Maybe some weird low pressure areas surrounding the pipe? In any case I don't blame the controller. It looks like the engineers expected and designed for such impacts.
Just want to point out that the ROV's and other equipment used in this video are from Oceaneering. Oceaneering was awarded the contract to do the repair because BP did not have the technology or capabilities to perform the operation on their own.
@@Boyso5407 Contractors. They let companies outsource both responsibility and blame, BP pushed it off on haliburton, who pushed some of it off on some other contractor, and so on. These companies have very little in-house expertise left. Any non-financial experts are just too "expensive" to keep on staff.
This was a disaster that should of never happened. That said, the engineering creativity that went into getting control of the well is the best of humanity and shows we can solve crazy problems when we get enough smart and talented people on an issue.
The same can be said about all accidents, but the universe is fraught with peril, and it's not practical to expect that mere mortals can anticipate every single possibility while engaged in any endeavor, in full understanding of every possible variable that may affect the outcome throughout the entire universe. Accidents happen. It's a part of life. You have them yourself, every single day. People do their best, but nothing is perfect. The only solution is to do nothing, which is a profound waste of life. We accept certain risks so that we don't have to live in a pathetic, hopeless, unproductive prison bubble from cradle to grave where we are safe, but unable to live and move and create in the magnificent reality that surrounds us. The benefits outweigh the risks, and we understand that sometimes accidents will happen. We have to accept this, because the only alternative that is totally safe from harm is to never be born and to never exist in this universe! At which point you have to ask; what good, then, is a universe?
@@paulmadsen51 What you say is true for sure, but there are also situations like this where greed and cost cutting make accidents more likely and put people at risk that may have not signed up for said risk. We cannot excuse all accidents with this rationale. Like most things in life its a little of both columns - we take risks to better ourselves and mankind, but we also need to not lose site of the dangers and get sloppy.
The little r2d2s moving around is so entertaining honestly I'd love to see more of them working together it's amazing how they can move a 10000lb chunk of metal yes I know it's underwater or just grab a tiny roap
Important to note that they're just adjusting the metal. I suspect there's a big crane on the water surface that is lifting the metal, and the rovs (r2d2s) are there for precision placement
It's a better bandaid than the THOUSANDS of uncapped wells spilling all sorts of crap into the water/air in the states, not to mention the ones sitting under the massive environmental disasters they call "reservoirs" held in by dams, or how about Chernobyl or Fukushima that will continue leaking LONG after the human race is dead lol...
I remember me watching this spilling devil for many days. It was such a relief when they were finally able to cap the well. The enormous damage that was already done to the environment by that day isn't forgotten, tho.
@@TunnelSnake-es7tu Apparently they did it on purpose because they thought they could find another way to still exploit the line, even after the incident.
I'm a mechanic working for the Alaska north slope oilfields in Prudhoe Bay. In July 2010 was watching the spill after the remote robots cut the bent section away from the piping. I noticed a section at the top where several inches below had a pipe flange. I designed a caphead that would be installed and use fins to lock onto the flanges and wouldn't seal until closing the valve. Learning BP had a horizon helpline I called and spoke with the personnel and stated I had a design that could be used. I submit my design but neglected to patent my design. By this time the responding crew was attempting to drill into the line at a 45 degree angle and advised them to stop as if drilling a relief hole in the line would create an out of control leak. I advised them to use the caphead design which used a high pressure hose that would recover crude and once under control yo close the line slowly as stopping the flow of crude and gases at the volume of leak if stopped to quickly would cause a hydraulic hammering effect. Once stopped a cement/slurry mix could be injected until the line was full enough that once hardened would seal the line. The rate of spill response was then at the 80 day mark. I was emailed back by the horizon helpline and informed my design was unusable. Two weeks later my design you see here was used to stop the leak. What a slap in the face as I wasn't compensated nor accredited for my design and told the design was theirs. I still have copies of the design I submitted as well as emails. I do have plans of starting my own deep water repair company as none exist. The blowout prevention valve design being used isn't meant for offshore drilling platforms and here verifies that is an utter failure. Too much sediment,gases leave the valve unusable. My design blowout prevention will cost if they want !
@@FacitOmniaVoluntas. yes as I've stated that I have copies of my caphead design I submitted as well as emails back and forth from the horizon helpline. Who is alpha?
I'm the designer of the caphead spool valve that was used here. I submitted on July 20 2010 to the horizon helpline. Due to not having patented my design and was claimed by BP as theirs. I never received compensation or recognition for my efforts. I still have copies of my design submitted to the horizon helpline as well as emails to and from the helpline. I'm the actual designer of the caphead and am employed as a mechanic on Alaska's North slope oilfields in Prudhoe Bay at the Kuparuk river unit Conoco Phillips. On Nov 18 2018 received an on the job injury and after surgery left 6 months of healing and therapy. This left ample time to look over oilfield equipment designs to find the same blowout prevention system that failed the deep horizon still in use by all major oil companies that have ocean based oil production drill platforms current 2019. This type of blowout prevention system defects are highlighted in incident leading up to the deep horizon oil spill. On that design at the top of the blowout prevention system is the annular valve which uses a doughnut shaped seal that is forced down to cover the supply port between the wellhead and riser pipe. It failed due to the doughnut seal face being damaged and failed to stop the pressurized flow of crude. Once realized by the topside horizon crew activated the blind shear rams which are designed to be hydraulically force cutting jaws to cut/crush the wellhead pipe closed. The wellhead and riser pipe being bent from a blowout/ hydraulic hammer caused the piping to be out of alignment with the blind shear ram jaws and was only partially cut/crushed closed. We now have a total blowout prevention system failure and all the topside crew can do is run like h$!#. This type of blowout prevention is not designed for a blowout prevention. It cannot be tested periodically to verify proper operation when needed and cannot isolate pressure under the blowout prevention assembly. Even if this design worked properly still Leaves a cut/crushed wellhead pipe sitting on the seafloor sealed by only the cut/crushed pipe. Any attempt to abandon or repair will result in a spill. I have a design blowout prevention system that will effectively reduce oil spills. Pressure can be isolated if the blowout prevention system needs repair or maintenance and returned back to production after repairs are made. This system can be tested to verify proper operation. The wellhead and riser piping tested by double block and bleed. Since a well is pressurized my design doesn't need sand sealant to buffer blowouts. But pressure and flow controlled by the set of ball valve and gate valves located at the seafloor and another set of ball valve and gate valve located top side. If a blowout pressure surge is detected the ball valve closes along with the ball valve slightly behind. This chokes down the flow as in the old type design doesn't and stopping the flow instantly is like a train hitting a brick wall. My newer design can be viewed here on UA-cam by " blowout prevention system 2019". It is patented and costs will far outweigh costs in environmental damage and spill cleanup cost. Suggest that this design is mine and suggest major oil companies buy together .
What always gets me about working in these environments is the amount of pressure inside that well. The pressure at this depth (1500m) is approximately 148.6 ATM or 2184psi. One ATM is 14.7psi for reference. For the oil to be pouring out of that pipe, it has to overcome that amount of "inward" pressure. Looking at it from this perspective makes it seem trivial, but the power still alive there is immense. The US Coastguard estimated the pressure inside the well to be 8000psi. Like man... and 110psi coming out of an air compressor can be powerful... imagine this... it would rip your existence to pieces.
Proof once again that given enough time and money, one can fix anything... Edit: For those who missed it, this is a fairly obviously ironic comment....
I feel so badly for all of the people who have ongoing issues with respiratory problems, memory problems, skin problems, etc etc from the BP Deepwater spill and subsequent "cleanup". And of course the damage to all of that wildlife. Such a huge disaster and so avoidable if not for the greed leading to poor decisions.
Clarence One faulty mechanism on the shearing bladed was a wrongly wired DC battery and the other was a faulty installed solenoid valve for an ultimate fall back....
The blind shear ram actually had properly closed (2 wrongs equaling a right ironically), but the pipe had buckled so the blade couldn't completely close the well.
damn! This is like having a hole in a huge pressure cooking pan, but UNDEWATER and then you have to kind of seal the hole while the pan is still cooking and after that you have to make another hole, a controlled one, just to prevent more leaking from the first one.
So, everyone has seen WWII shipwrecks and how they are rusted away to nothing; what happens in 50 years when that cap rusts away to nothing? We’ll start noticing oil washing up on shore but not know where it’s coming from!
There was an oil spill containment company ready to deploy, stationed with all the equipment and man power in Houston , TX. The company was Swiss. They have experience working in the North See. Obama refused to allow them to deploy. Look it up.
I figured some kinda pay back from someone, good thing I don't see Obama cause I would make people's dream come true for sure fucking trader and back stabber, good thing I'm not seal yet cause I would turn mission juronomo to the real problem we had him not bin Laden he would be second in line.
i rmbr all of us huddled together and cheering some crying cause after 87 days FINALLY ..its off and we had figured out the technology and a way to capp off future wells .. thank god
True - just frustrated by this mess and since watching it with ROV you’d think they’d know. But with current I’m sure it’s just random luck when get it right.
What made me so mad at the time was they did not have a fix already thought of and in place for the type of scenario disaster that became reality. So it spewed oil into the ocean until they could come up with their solution. That is called being unprepared.
igoski1 that's your opinion, and while you are certainly entitled to it, I highly doubt you have the expertise of even an offshore oil roughneck. You aren't a petroleum engineer. There were safety redundancies, and they all failed. That's like saying that everyone should have a plan for how to deal with being struck by lightning.
IF humans created lightning, only then would you have a valid point..everything BOP was human crafted and recklessly strewn and wired together in failed eventual form. There;s just NO Dam excuse for those solenoids to be faulty like that!
You do realize that debris had to be cleared away and the BOP had to be removed a new well head ETC all had to be done first ,,,all at depths where only ROV`s could be used to do it all
They were not faulty, the power supplies were not wired correctly and only one ended up working. That was still a fail due to the drill pipe being bent.
Like how what looks like ROV 2 finally decided to get involve around the 2:09 mark by moving the rope out of the way for his buddy to land it better then backs off.. Then shakes his little hand when he has to help his buddy guide it..looks mad because he wanted to just film.. That is amazing tho
It seems the blowout preventer would have never worked completely, and did not work correctly anyways, due to a design flaw in bending pipe and someone miswiring a closing coil, probably years before it was taken off the shelf to be used. This spill was destined as soon as the preventer was lowered into place and bolted down, whenever that was.
It’s lucky that when the rig collapsed and sank, it didn’t crumple overtop of the valve. Can you imagine the effort it would have taken if they first had to shift hundreds of tonnes of steel framing to plant the cap overtop?!
Well seeing that the Deepwater Horizon vessel was already drifting and out of control at the time of the tragedy and probably sunk miles from there the chances of that happening were very small.
I am still trying to understand exactly how they were able to take something that was spewing out at what I am assuming is a good volume of oil per minute since it was all over the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and place that cap onto it.
Not sure how strong the pressure was more or less just looks like a gaping hole but even if the pressure was strong that cap is probably so heavy the oil foesnt stand a chance
@@Boot_185 1. They had to drill a relief well in the formation to reduce the pressure before they could cap it. 2. There was a whole pile of twisted pipe lodged in the BOP valve. They're at 5000ft depth, they had to saw all that out of there with robots so get a clean connection for a cap. That takes a long time.
@@TMJ32 thank you for explaining this and not being a jackass like so many on UA-cam that think everyone that ask questions are dumb. I had no idea about drilling another well and the pipe that was in the way. The video they showed on the news at the time didn't so all that pipe in the way
I don't understand why the Deepwater Horizon wasn't allowed to just sit there and function as a flare platform. It would have been simple to attach a BOP anywhere along the intact riser and shut down the well. And the intact rig could then have been towed to shore for a proper investigation.
@@asbestosfibers1325 ROV pilots are the laziest fuckers you will meet offshore. They are all fat as fuck. They sit around on their chairs, with their little joy sticks and care nothing else about other operations. I worked with many offshore and cannot stand most of them. Ignorant as fuck!
Ignore the 1 year late reply. Not everyone is fat nor uninterested. Here in Brazil we make around $2.000 a month. Over the north sea and US the paycheck is about $300 a day.
@Russell Coleman ya but that is the natural part! we that made it double the amount of leak in just 60 days... Because we want more right! We will do anything for money! Even destroy our own planet!??!?
@Russell Coleman don't call me a genius pls. and the oil leaks is the same for what the earth produces of co2 we just make it worse. look those oil leaks are all around the world. this was all on one spot and that's why it's bad get it!?!?!
In July 2010 seeing the disaster after the Rob's cut bent sections of the line and left a section of the line sticking up from the seabed along with a flange designed the caphead and had submitted to the " horizon helpline", unfortunately I didn't patent my design and was email back by the " horizon helpline stating the design I submitted was unusable and that the design had always been theirs. I still have copies of the caphead submitted as well as emails. I am serious and am an oilfield employee on Alaska's North slope and have over 30 years experience in pipeline repair and maintenance. For my efforts I was given a slap in the face.
..horrible awful accident, amazing to watch this though.. just listening to a radio program on bbc radio four with people involved in this, they said it was five thousand feet down! ..good job..
It’s crazy watching this knowing that oil rig bolted onto that pipe and all it took was that engine to runaway to cause everything that happened. The engine was diesel and ran away because when the oil and mud shot up from the drill line the air filter was pulling in the natural gas and the engine over reved and it exploded, it only exploded because of all the heat in the engine ( they don’t turn off so it was extremely hot) and the natural gas lit so when it caught fire it lit the oil. Rip all the fallen people of deep water
They had finished drilling. Were in process of disconnecting from well. The cement job didn't seal the casing, allowing gas to enter enter the well. That gas went UP the drill pipe which then was sucking into the engines powering the electrical generators. It was a chain reaction. Unfortunately they had serious issues early in the drilling process they tried to patch over by using an experimental cement process. Didn't work. I guarantee you BP & Haliburton NOW know exactly what went wrong but won't publicize it. IF they had run the cement log they would likely have seen it wasn't done correctly. Just a ton of mistakes all adding up to a huge disaster.
Notice the velocity up-hole is about a thousandth of what it was to begin with. Like corking a champagne bottle that has slowed down to a gentle flow of champagne. You ain't gonna put that cork back in that bottle after you pop it!
Ma Ar it was a temp fix. They drilled a relief hole and cement plug the tight way the whole thing. That's what happened here the cement failed and bop failed.
Why did they not send a huge suction pipe over the leaking oil to collect most if not all of the oil. Why after 87 days they capped it. It could take 3 days to get a huge suction pipe over the leaking oil pipe.
What’s coming out of the pipe they’re lowering onto the well? Drilling mud? Drilling mud is what they usually use in the pipe to control the pressure of the oil coming up. Is that right? Is there now a rig over this well harvesting the oil? Also, what’s the scale of this unit? Is it huge? Are the ROVs small or large? I can’t tell.
Yeah, man and capitalism are just never going to learn. Its always $$$ first then safety and life concerns. At some point we are going to have to stop and say that it is not worth the risk. Why is the human race such a tawt ?
Deepwater Horizon was the worst US offshore oil leak, I think the one in the Persian Gulf was worse because it was done on purpose by Saddam. The US has to bomb the pipelines feeding the terminal to stop the flow.
Blake O’Shaghennesy you idiot deep water was the worst accidental oil 206 million gallons. The worst oil spill in the world was kuwait spilling 380-520 million gal of oil.
So like... It took almost 90 days of oil and natural gas dumping into the environment to think about crafting a fitted heavy metal bucket and plop it right on the pipe? Do I have that right?
What took all the time was removing the debris from the initial event ( there was a lot) and each piece had to be cut, rigged, and brought up or moved by a surface crane. Then cutting back the well pipe to find a usable section, taking precise measurements because the casing was, of course not round anymore. Fitting and aligning the transition to the casing and only then "dropping a bucket" on the pipe. I used to operate a ROV, (not on the Horizon though) and all of these things take a lot of time.These guys were doing the best, safest fix they could. Thank you for allowing me to clarify.
@@rickracedog3838 Oh no, this isn't on the workers at all. I'm 100% sure they did the best job possible. This is on whoever designed the contingency plans and didn't account for this type of break happening. There were contingencies in place, but none of them accounted for the fact that a break in the line could have occurred above the failsafe mechanisms. For the amount of money that industry makes, and considering the extreme potential dangers inherently present when working with reserves of oil + natural gas, yes I do think they should have contingencies for every possible scenario possible. This shows they had absolutely nothing prepared to deal with a break above those malfunctioning mechanisms. I mean after all, if an earthquake or volcanic event produced shockwaves, what part of that pipeline is under the most tension and susceptible? The firmly rooted pipe end at the bottom of the ocean floor? Or the end that has an oil rig built around it? Or the middle of that pipeline, suspended in nothing and at the mercy of motion from something happening to the rig, or the bottom of the ocean floor? My 2 cents.
just can't imagine the sheer amount of engineering skill and knowledge and experience that went into solving this. So many unsung heros
That's what I lm saying. People are insanely smart.
if they were that smart then they wouldnt have had 4 important pieces of equipment fail from gross negligence of maintenance @@thelaxlair6727
That initial drop: "Have you never played a video game!?!"
The ROV operator definitely couldn't pass as an astronaut - you only get one chance to latch the shuttle ;)
Reminds me of virginity and the girl saying "that's not it." "Yo, baby, you got a shoe horn or something?" (courtesy: Eddie Murphy)
I figured it was because of some effect caused by the unit entering the oil flow. Maybe the oil being less dense than the watwr caused a the cylinder to suddenly increase in weight? Or perhaps it acted as some sort of nozzle for the oil as it went out the other side? Maybe some weird low pressure areas surrounding the pipe? In any case I don't blame the controller. It looks like the engineers expected and designed for such impacts.
It's a whole different game when there's only 1 life, no reset button, and no memory card with "last save point" for do-overs.
@@everydaygear3730 I always wondered can you explain? Why couldn't they just use their thrusters to adjust and fix the error?
Come on little robot buddy...you can do it !!
ceedaddy cute asf right?
Just want to point out that the ROV's and other equipment used in this video are from Oceaneering. Oceaneering was awarded the contract to do the repair because BP did not have the technology or capabilities to perform the operation on their own.
crazy you can run a company that can't work in the environment their money is made from.
@@JJM2222 +
How does a billion dollar company not have the ability to fix something they broke? And yet they’re still in business to this day.
@@Boyso5407 Contractors. They let companies outsource both responsibility and blame, BP pushed it off on haliburton, who pushed some of it off on some other contractor, and so on. These companies have very little in-house expertise left. Any non-financial experts are just too "expensive" to keep on staff.
@@Boyso5407 Billion...? Hahaha it's €1.325 trillion
This was a disaster that should of never happened. That said, the engineering creativity that went into getting control of the well is the best of humanity and shows we can solve crazy problems when we get enough smart and talented people on an issue.
Should have*
@@americandissident9062 yawn
The same can be said about all accidents, but the universe is fraught with peril, and it's not practical to expect that mere mortals can anticipate every single possibility while engaged in any endeavor, in full understanding of every possible variable that may affect the outcome throughout the entire universe. Accidents happen. It's a part of life. You have them yourself, every single day. People do their best, but nothing is perfect. The only solution is to do nothing, which is a profound waste of life. We accept certain risks so that we don't have to live in a pathetic, hopeless, unproductive prison bubble from cradle to grave where we are safe, but unable to live and move and create in the magnificent reality that surrounds us. The benefits outweigh the risks, and we understand that sometimes accidents will happen. We have to accept this, because the only alternative that is totally safe from harm is to never be born and to never exist in this universe! At which point you have to ask; what good, then, is a universe?
@@paulmadsen51 What you say is true for sure, but there are also situations like this where greed and cost cutting make accidents more likely and put people at risk that may have not signed up for said risk. We cannot excuse all accidents with this rationale. Like most things in life its a little of both columns - we take risks to better ourselves and mankind, but we also need to not lose site of the dangers and get sloppy.
Anyone else get frustrated watching them constantly lower it too soon and keep hitting the edge of the cap?
I get what you mean yes I do too but like, if you and me tried operating those ROV’s on an operation that size it’d still be going
If it was easy, it wouldn’t have taken them 3 months
Why don’t you do it?
Yeah, they could’ve just shut off the spigot.
Y’a why are they fiddling with robots, could of sent a diver down there to shut the valve. Idiots
The little r2d2s moving around is so entertaining honestly I'd love to see more of them working together it's amazing how they can move a 10000lb chunk of metal yes I know it's underwater or just grab a tiny roap
Important to note that they're just adjusting the metal. I suspect there's a big crane on the water surface that is lifting the metal, and the rovs (r2d2s) are there for precision placement
Roap
worlds biggest band-aid
You better re-evaluate ---- ever heard of Chernobyl?
Much less of consequences. Better remember Fukushima mybe?
Fukushima is by far the worst.
Though there's no band-aid for that.
Justin Long says the person who’s whole live revolves around oil..
It's a better bandaid than the THOUSANDS of uncapped wells spilling all sorts of crap into the water/air in the states, not to mention the ones sitting under the massive environmental disasters they call "reservoirs" held in by dams, or how about Chernobyl or Fukushima that will continue leaking LONG after the human race is dead lol...
I remember me watching this spilling devil for many days. It was such a relief when they were finally able to cap the well.
The enormous damage that was already done to the environment by that day isn't forgotten, tho.
It should never have happened, end of and it never lasted days it was 6 plus months leaking into the sea.
How did it take 7 months to do that? Bunch of idiots
@@TunnelSnake-es7tu
Apparently they did it on purpose because they thought they could find another way to still exploit the line, even after the incident.
@@TheGreatLight3 87 days. More like 3 months, not 6
@@EarendilTheBlessed Then they changed their company name in an attempt to separate themselves from their bad reputation.
'Think Twice, Act Once' would have been a good idea in the first place.
You nailed it with that comment!
Yeah but think of ALL the loot BP would've made if this hadn't happened 😂 big risks big rewards in business 🤑🤑🤑
BP cornered themselves bringing the executives on board for the big closing in ceremony when they weren't ready.
See also: Go Fever.
I'm a mechanic working for the Alaska north slope oilfields in Prudhoe Bay. In July 2010 was watching the spill after the remote robots cut the bent section away from the piping. I noticed a section at the top where several inches below had a pipe flange. I designed a caphead that would be installed and use fins to lock onto the flanges and wouldn't seal until closing the valve. Learning BP had a horizon helpline I called and spoke with the personnel and stated I had a design that could be used. I submit my design but neglected to patent my design. By this time the responding crew was attempting to drill into the line at a 45 degree angle and advised them to stop as if drilling a relief hole in the line would create an out of control leak. I advised them to use the caphead design which used a high pressure hose that would recover crude and once under control yo close the line slowly as stopping the flow of crude and gases at the volume of leak if stopped to quickly would cause a hydraulic hammering effect. Once stopped a cement/slurry mix could be injected until the line was full enough that once hardened would seal the line. The rate of spill response was then at the 80 day mark. I was emailed back by the horizon helpline and informed my design was unusable. Two weeks later my design you see here was used to stop the leak. What a slap in the face as I wasn't compensated nor accredited for my design and told the design was theirs. I still have copies of the design I submitted as well as emails. I do have plans of starting my own deep water repair company as none exist. The blowout prevention valve design being used isn't meant for offshore drilling platforms and here verifies that is an utter failure. Too much sediment,gases leave the valve unusable. My design blowout prevention will cost if they want !
tg0071000 Can you send pictures or post a video to back up your story?
@@FacitOmniaVoluntas. yes as I've stated that I have copies of my caphead design I submitted as well as emails back and forth from the horizon helpline. Who is alpha?
I'm the designer of the caphead spool valve that was used here. I submitted on July 20 2010 to the horizon helpline. Due to not having patented my design and was claimed by BP as theirs. I never received compensation or recognition for my efforts. I still have copies of my design submitted to the horizon helpline as well as emails to and from the helpline. I'm the actual designer of the caphead and am employed as a mechanic on Alaska's North slope oilfields in Prudhoe Bay at the Kuparuk river unit Conoco Phillips.
On Nov 18 2018 received an on the job injury and after surgery left 6 months of healing and therapy. This left ample time to look over oilfield equipment designs to find the same blowout prevention system that failed the deep horizon still in use by all major oil companies that have ocean based oil production drill platforms current 2019. This type of blowout prevention system defects are highlighted in incident leading up to the deep horizon oil spill. On that design at the top of the blowout prevention system is the annular valve which uses a doughnut shaped seal that is forced down to cover the supply port between the wellhead and riser pipe. It failed due to the doughnut seal face being damaged and failed to stop the pressurized flow of crude. Once realized by the topside horizon crew activated the blind shear rams which are designed to be hydraulically force cutting jaws to cut/crush the wellhead pipe closed. The wellhead and riser pipe being bent from a blowout/ hydraulic hammer caused the piping to be out of alignment with the blind shear ram jaws and was only partially cut/crushed closed. We now have a total blowout prevention system failure and all the topside crew can do is run like h$!#.
This type of blowout prevention is not designed for a blowout prevention.
It cannot be tested periodically to verify proper operation when needed and cannot isolate pressure under the blowout prevention assembly.
Even if this design worked properly still Leaves a cut/crushed wellhead pipe sitting on the seafloor sealed by only the cut/crushed pipe. Any attempt to abandon or repair will result in a spill.
I have a design blowout prevention system that will effectively reduce oil spills.
Pressure can be isolated if the blowout prevention system needs repair or maintenance and returned back to production after repairs are made.
This system can be tested to verify proper operation. The wellhead and riser piping tested by double block and bleed.
Since a well is pressurized my design doesn't need sand sealant to buffer blowouts. But pressure and flow controlled by the set of ball valve and gate valves located at the seafloor and another set of ball valve and gate valve located top side. If a blowout pressure surge is detected the ball valve closes along with the ball valve slightly behind. This chokes down the flow as in the old type design doesn't and stopping the flow instantly is like a train hitting a brick wall.
My newer design can be viewed here on UA-cam by " blowout prevention system 2019". It is patented and costs will far outweigh costs in environmental damage and spill cleanup cost. Suggest that this design is mine and suggest major oil companies buy together .
perhaps stop crying about it on youtube ;) just a suggestion
@@Nebenthez87 Just a suggestion .... Try not being a prick. At least this guy has something to offer the world. Lets hear what you got :)
Damn iT, i shouldve gone down there, connected my own little pipe to that oil and took it all for myself. Missed opportunity there
*united states national anthem and marching sounds get closer*
What always gets me about working in these environments is the amount of pressure inside that well. The pressure at this depth (1500m) is approximately 148.6 ATM or 2184psi. One ATM is 14.7psi for reference. For the oil to be pouring out of that pipe, it has to overcome that amount of "inward" pressure. Looking at it from this perspective makes it seem trivial, but the power still alive there is immense. The US Coastguard estimated the pressure inside the well to be 8000psi. Like man... and 110psi coming out of an air compressor can be powerful... imagine this... it would rip your existence to pieces.
When a rig up on the surface starts spinning pipe it will make 4 or 5 rotations before the bit at the bottom starts spinning.
Dang that's crazy, and pretty cool
Depends on depth
Lmao the profile pic and username tho
@@I.Odnamra lmao rite 🤣
I liked how the little robot used his claw to help haha
Those robots are the size of cars. I work on them for a living 🤣
I can feel the frustration in the operator of the mini robot arm.
Amazing what ROV'S can do!
Good job guy's!!
Great when you have R2D2 and his buddies helping out.
It’s amazing how they did this
Proof once again that given enough time and money, one can fix anything...
Edit: For those who missed it, this is a fairly obviously ironic comment....
Adrien Perié here again
It's still leaking up to 5000 gallons a day
@@phantomwraith1984 source?
@Lurking Carrier spurce?
Should have used flex tape
So TransOcean had time to get a company sticker on this new never made or used before equipment...UNREAL!!!
what?
Wow something that takes all of about 10 milliseconds to do. CRRAAZZZZZYYYYY
it goes to the root of the way they think/ Would you want your co name plastered on this disaster moron?
I feel so badly for all of the people who have ongoing issues with respiratory problems, memory problems, skin problems, etc etc from the BP Deepwater spill and subsequent "cleanup". And of course the damage to all of that wildlife. Such a huge disaster and so avoidable if not for the greed leading to poor decisions.
sooooooooo avoidable, why don't you become an engineer and design something better idiot.
Adam Miller The design was genius only due to the faulty mechanisms. The only idiot here is you.
Clarence One faulty mechanism on the shearing bladed was a wrongly wired DC battery and the other was a faulty installed solenoid valve for an ultimate fall back....
I do too but what about the gulf war oil spill victims I mean for God sake it fuggen shot from the ground
The blind shear ram actually had properly closed (2 wrongs equaling a right ironically), but the pipe had buckled so the blade couldn't completely close the well.
Stevie Wonder clearly at the controls.
They didn’t do this to help the environment they did it for the all that coin flowing into the ocean
I'm glad they didn't play techno or tech-house music tracks to this operation
Agreed
Wasnt Halliburton behind this? It wasnt all BP owned equipment or personnel, a lot was outsourced and run by various companies.
Transocean owned the rig BP owns the well
Halliburton poured the cement for the well….
I was hoping to see a deep horizon monster. Just lurking into depth of darkness creeps me out. Imagine the life there.
I saw like a pair od eyes i think in the back but idk if its a creature or not
... the oil spill killed most of it
damn! This is like having a hole in a huge pressure cooking pan, but UNDEWATER and then you have to kind of seal the hole while the pan is still cooking and after that you have to make another hole, a controlled one, just to prevent more leaking from the first one.
So, everyone has seen WWII shipwrecks and how they are rusted away to nothing; what happens in 50 years when that cap rusts away to nothing? We’ll start noticing oil washing up on shore but not know where it’s coming from!
If you educated yourself before you speak then you would know this was temporary and they shortly filled the hole and relieved the pressure
There was an oil spill containment company ready to deploy, stationed with all the equipment and man power in Houston , TX. The company was Swiss. They have experience working in the North See. Obama refused to allow them to deploy. Look it up.
I figured some kinda pay back from someone, good thing I don't see Obama cause I would make people's dream come true for sure fucking trader and back stabber, good thing I'm not seal yet cause I would turn mission juronomo to the real problem we had him not bin Laden he would be second in line.
Looked it up, turns out you're full of shit.
www.factcheck.org/2010/06/oil-spill-foreign-help-and-the-jones-act/
@@penguin12902 Never allow facts into a good political conspiracy. Besides...it was president Hillary that did it.
Hook this up to an Xbox controller an my son would have it done in 5min
Sounds like you need to get out in the world more often..
Sounds like you need to get out in the world more often
Your son cant do jack shit
actually, it wouldn't surprise me.
Deadpool Lee these people be r/woosh-ing hard
i rmbr all of us huddled together and cheering some crying cause after 87 days FINALLY ..its off
and we had figured out the technology and a way to capp off future wells .. thank god
Environmental impact, devastating. However, let's not forget that hard working, family providing, non-millionaire men died in this disaster.
Thats wild. The way its just spewing..
Okay it shouldn’t be hard to realize that lowering cap before it’s completely over the well!
It’s a miles down with huge current and swell
Its like a mile under water
True - just frustrated by this mess and since watching it with ROV you’d think they’d know. But with current I’m sure it’s just random luck when get it right.
What made me so mad at the time was they did not have a fix already thought of and in place for the type of scenario disaster that became reality. So it spewed oil into the ocean until they could come up with their solution. That is called being unprepared.
igoski1 that's your opinion, and while you are certainly entitled to it, I highly doubt you have the expertise of even an offshore oil roughneck. You aren't a petroleum engineer. There were safety redundancies, and they all failed. That's like saying that everyone should have a plan for how to deal with being struck by lightning.
IF humans created lightning, only then would you have a valid point..everything BOP was human crafted and recklessly strewn and wired together in failed eventual form. There;s just NO Dam excuse for those solenoids to be faulty like that!
You do realize that debris had to be cleared away and the BOP had to be removed a new well head ETC all had to be done first ,,,all at depths where only ROV`s could be used to do it all
They were not faulty, the power supplies were not wired correctly and only one ended up working. That was still a fail due to the drill pipe being bent.
When hope is the plan :(
Like how what looks like ROV 2 finally decided to get involve around the 2:09 mark by moving the rope out of the way for his buddy to land it better then backs off..
Then shakes his little hand when he has to help his buddy guide it..looks mad because he wanted to just film..
That is amazing tho
It seems the blowout preventer would have never worked completely, and did not work correctly anyways, due to a design flaw in bending pipe and someone miswiring a closing coil, probably years before it was taken off the shelf to be used. This spill was destined as soon as the preventer was lowered into place and bolted down, whenever that was.
It’s lucky that when the rig collapsed and sank, it didn’t crumple overtop of the valve. Can you imagine the effort it would have taken if they first had to shift hundreds of tonnes of steel framing to plant the cap overtop?!
Well seeing that the Deepwater Horizon vessel was already drifting and out of control at the time of the tragedy and probably sunk miles from there the chances of that happening were very small.
I am still trying to understand exactly how they were able to take something that was spewing out at what I am assuming is a good volume of oil per minute since it was all over the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and place that cap onto it.
even better question why did it take so long to do it from the start of the spill
Not sure how strong the pressure was more or less just looks like a gaping hole but even if the pressure was strong that cap is probably so heavy the oil foesnt stand a chance
@@Boot_185 it took so long because no plan was in place for such a catastrophic failure so far deep in the ocean.
@@Boot_185 1. They had to drill a relief well in the formation to reduce the pressure before they could cap it.
2. There was a whole pile of twisted pipe lodged in the BOP valve. They're at 5000ft depth, they had to saw all that out of there with robots so get a clean connection for a cap. That takes a long time.
@@TMJ32 thank you for explaining this and not being a jackass like so many on UA-cam that think everyone that ask questions are dumb. I had no idea about drilling another well and the pipe that was in the way. The video they showed on the news at the time didn't so all that pipe in the way
Now we need soundtrack from interstellar dock scene
🤣🤣
0:53 me after eating Taco Bell
Hey guys, BP is really sorry about this. They apologize. Just wanted you all to know. Have a good day.
That's ok, all is forgiven. I hope their CEO got his life back 😂
Im amazed the pressure of oil and gas keep flowing out with deepwater pressure
Pivot, pivot, pivoooooot!!!
🤣
At least there were 3 ROVs for this operation alone.
Imagine if the oil down there made the water so dark you couldn’t see a thing. How would they ever have fixed it
Good thing oil and water don't mix, helps alot when oil floats
Oil floats, lighter than water
@@otfanimal lol, yep you only need to be just below the oil to see it
I don't understand why the Deepwater Horizon wasn't allowed to just sit there and function as a flare platform. It would have been simple to attach a BOP anywhere along the intact riser and shut down the well. And the intact rig could then have been towed to shore for a proper investigation.
This piece in my opinion saved the oceans and the world!
Uh- well- kinda. most of the damage was already done, though.
Beautiful, great job. How long before that iron cap rusts into pieces 😂
I want to know what the guy operating that ROV makes per hour
@@asbestosfibers1325 ROV pilots are the laziest fuckers you will meet offshore. They are all fat as fuck. They sit around on their chairs, with their little joy sticks and care nothing else about other operations. I worked with many offshore and cannot stand most of them. Ignorant as fuck!
Ignore the 1 year late reply. Not everyone is fat nor uninterested. Here in Brazil we make around $2.000 a month. Over the north sea and US the paycheck is about $300 a day.
I want to know how many birds an fish died that day I mean 7.900 000 liters of oil spilled out that's enough to kill the whole ocean....
@Russell Coleman ya but that is the natural part! we that made it double the amount of leak in just 60 days...
Because we want more right! We will do anything for money! Even destroy our own planet!??!?
@Russell Coleman don't call me a genius pls. and the oil leaks is the same for what the earth produces of co2 we just make it worse. look those oil leaks are all around the world. this was all on one spot and that's why it's bad get it!?!?!
In July 2010 seeing the disaster after the Rob's cut bent sections of the line and left a section of the line sticking up from the seabed along with a flange designed the caphead and had submitted to the " horizon helpline", unfortunately I didn't patent my design and was email back by the " horizon helpline stating the design I submitted was unusable and that the design had always been theirs. I still have copies of the caphead submitted as well as emails. I am serious and am an oilfield employee on Alaska's North slope and have over 30 years experience in pipeline repair and maintenance. For my efforts I was given a slap in the face.
call cnn? lol
These bog companies are just monopolies and will rob whoever they can of money
Listen to interstellar docking scene theme in background. Play video. Enjoy
haha that rocks! - Great idea!
The fishermen of the Gulf Coast wish they could have a spill like that one every 2 or 3 years
Watching underwater videos gives me anxiety. Not sure why
Submechanophobia or thalassophobia maybe?
This isn't deep horizon. That well was much bigger. This is possibly really close nearby though.
Visibility was not too bad underwater otherwise it would be much more complicated
..horrible awful accident, amazing to watch this though.. just listening to a radio program on bbc radio four with people involved in this, they said it was five thousand feet down! ..good job..
Incidents like this make nuclear energy seem a lot safer
Fukushima
Bro nuclear is already safer in the first place bruh💀💀
It’s crazy watching this knowing that oil rig bolted onto that pipe and all it took was that engine to runaway to cause everything that happened. The engine was diesel and ran away because when the oil and mud shot up from the drill line the air filter was pulling in the natural gas and the engine over reved and it exploded, it only exploded because of all the heat in the engine ( they don’t turn off so it was extremely hot) and the natural gas lit so when it caught fire it lit the oil. Rip all the fallen people of deep water
“NOW”
“sorry sir not far enough”
“NOW!”
“nope missed”
“DOWN NOW”
“wait theres a pvc pipe in the way”
Wish I had a funnel going right into a septic tank. Would resell it back to Arco.
the tether management must have been fun on this one
That BOP is friggin' huge.
Come on TARS!
Next : Accidental firing of nuclear missiles leads to Apocalypse.
why were they still drilling when they had hit such an enormous reservoir?
greed.
They had finished drilling. Were in process of disconnecting from well. The cement job didn't seal the casing, allowing gas to enter enter the well. That gas went UP the drill pipe which then was sucking into the engines powering the electrical generators. It was a chain reaction. Unfortunately they had serious issues early in the drilling process they tried to patch over by using an experimental cement process. Didn't work. I guarantee you BP & Haliburton NOW know exactly what went wrong but won't publicize it. IF they had run the cement log they would likely have seen it wasn't done correctly. Just a ton of mistakes all adding up to a huge disaster.
Notice the velocity up-hole is about a thousandth of what it was to begin with. Like corking a champagne bottle that has slowed down to a gentle flow of champagne. You ain't gonna put that cork back in that bottle after you pop it!
I remember, it took a very long time to put that capsule on the pipe . And everyday lots of oil were poluing everything...😖
Estimated at 50,000 barrels of oil a day spilled for almost 5 months.
YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT THE DESIGNER INVENTOR OF THAT CAP IS A SICILIAN.
Are the people responsible getting out of jail soon?
just wondering how long is this going to last and if they are keeping "an eye" on it
Ma Ar it was a temp fix. They drilled a relief hole and cement plug the tight way the whole thing. That's what happened here the cement failed and bop failed.
whoever on the controller must take forever in the bed room lol
Is this a permanent solution? How was a cap able to withstand the pressure from the oil gushing?
Why did they not send a huge suction pipe over the leaking oil to collect most if not all of the oil. Why after 87 days they capped it. It could take 3 days to get a huge suction pipe over the leaking oil pipe.
Remember: successful negative pressure tests start at zero, stay at zero, and end at zero
How many decades pass before they rust out and blown wide open again?
So is this a cap or does it lead to something to else to hold the oil?
What’s coming out of the pipe they’re lowering onto the well? Drilling mud? Drilling mud is what they usually use in the pipe to control the pressure of the oil coming up. Is that right? Is there now a rig over this well harvesting the oil?
Also, what’s the scale of this unit? Is it huge? Are the ROVs small or large? I can’t tell.
Jesus Christ dude use google even three questions is a bit excessive and no theres not another rig over it right now
Sometimes you read comments in YT and think, no people cannot be that stupid. But there is a suprise
Do you know when they did the cleanup you know they never got all that oil out of the ocean a lot of that oil is still down there
This is nothing in comparison of the Japanese Nuclear Reactor still pumping toxic nuke waste 10 years going.
Yeah, man and capitalism are just never going to learn. Its always $$$ first then safety and life concerns. At some point we are going to have to stop and say that it is not worth the risk. Why is the human race such a tawt ?
@@packratswhatif.3990yeh and communism blew up cernobyl
i remember alex jones's coverage of this scaring the shit out of me.
How come Chuck Norris wasn’t notified?
Who do you think finally got it capped? Kevin Costner??
Youd5 think they might want to have one of these on hand in case of BOP failure so it didn't take months of oil draining into the gulf
I hope no one goes to bp stations but now they have different names
The guys handling the ROV's can get you a plushie from an empty claw machine.
Nevermind how, they'll get it out, guaranteed.
Who's working this..Stevie wonder
we just learned the latching cap failed due to installing screws in the wrong place.
1:06 hold my bier
Definitely not as bad as *Gulf War 1991* oil spill which my dad helped clean up which released more than 5 times this amount of oil.
Deepwater Horizon was the worst US offshore oil leak, I think the one in the Persian Gulf was worse because it was done on purpose by Saddam. The US has to bomb the pipelines feeding the terminal to stop the flow.
Blake O’Shaghennesy you idiot deep water was the worst accidental oil 206 million gallons. The worst oil spill in the world was kuwait spilling 380-520 million gal of oil.
Blake O’Shaghennesy better take you're own advice and do some research dunbass.
Notice the rope keeping the little guy from doing the job? One of the pilots are eye level with it. Geez
cant imagine how much those operaters were making
Brian True, I worked for Oceaneering.
How much oil must have flown
Watching this you just wanna yell right there you had it but it’s not easy doing it underwater
So like... It took almost 90 days of oil and natural gas dumping into the environment to think about crafting a fitted heavy metal bucket and plop it right on the pipe? Do I have that right?
What took all the time was removing the debris from the initial event ( there was a lot) and each piece had to be cut, rigged, and brought up or moved by a surface crane. Then cutting back the well pipe to find a usable section, taking precise measurements because the casing was, of course not round anymore. Fitting and aligning the transition to the casing and only then "dropping a bucket" on the pipe. I used to operate a ROV, (not on the Horizon though) and all of these things take a lot of time.These guys were doing the best, safest fix they could. Thank you for allowing me to clarify.
@@rickracedog3838 Oh no, this isn't on the workers at all. I'm 100% sure they did the best job possible.
This is on whoever designed the contingency plans and didn't account for this type of break happening. There were contingencies in place, but none of them accounted for the fact that a break in the line could have occurred above the failsafe mechanisms.
For the amount of money that industry makes, and considering the extreme potential dangers inherently present when working with reserves of oil + natural gas, yes I do think they should have contingencies for every possible scenario possible. This shows they had absolutely nothing prepared to deal with a break above those malfunctioning mechanisms.
I mean after all, if an earthquake or volcanic event produced shockwaves, what part of that pipeline is under the most tension and susceptible? The firmly rooted pipe end at the bottom of the ocean floor? Or the end that has an oil rig built around it? Or the middle of that pipeline, suspended in nothing and at the mercy of motion from something happening to the rig, or the bottom of the ocean floor?
My 2 cents.
The little robots that could
My god, cant they solve an oil spill faster then that??? ffs....
How much oil have spilled out?
Finally.
John C G finally what? this was nearly 7 years ago