High-pressure methane gas from the well expanded into a drilling rig operated and owned by Transocean (support company that specialized in deep water drilling). However, the blowout preventer failed since a flawed well plan did not include enough cement between the 7-inch production casing and the 9 7/8-inch protection casing which was done by Halliburton.6 The aftermath was horrendous, for 87 straight days, oil and methane gas were emitted from an uncapped wellhead spilling approximately 210 million US gallons, 1 mile below the surface of the ocean. The clean-up effort was as large as well containing two drilling ships, 835 skimmers and approximately 9000 vessels were involved in the cleanup with over 47,849 personnel/responders assigned to help with the efforts.4 These findings insinuate that a series of engineering failures with lack of consideration of the consequences and weak government oversight of the complex technical challenge of drilling deep lead to the Deepwater Horizon
High-pressure methane gas from the well expanded into a drilling rig operated and owned by Transocean (support company that specialized in deep water drilling). However, the blowout preventer failed since a flawed well plan did not include enough cement between the 7-inch production casing and the 9 7/8-inch protection casing which was done by Halliburton.6 The aftermath was horrendous, for 87 straight days, oil and methane gas were emitted from an uncapped wellhead spilling approximately 210 million US gallons, 1 mile below the surface of the ocean. The clean-up effort was as large as well containing two drilling ships, 835 skimmers and approximately 9000 vessels were involved in the cleanup with over 47,849 personnel/responders assigned to help with the efforts.4 These findings insinuate that a series of engineering failures with lack of consideration of the consequences and weak government oversight of the complex technical challenge of drilling deep lead to the Deepwater Horizon