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 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...
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.
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
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.
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?
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....
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.
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.
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 TH-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
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!
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.
@@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!?!?!
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.
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.
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
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.
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 TH-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 .
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.
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.
..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..
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.
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.
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.
I really don't understand why they didn't figure out a way to use the production? They put a new BOP on it so why not connect to that and run it to the surface? Or connect to the other holes they drilled to pump concrete into this hole. I suppose biggest issue is controlling any gas entering. That's a hella big torch if done wrong. Maybe they just decided/learned the formation was too unstable to trust. Probably true. The well from hell wasn't meant to be.
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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
Come on little robot buddy...you can do it !!
ceedaddy cute asf right?
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?
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
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...
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
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
'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.
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.
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*
Amazing what ROV'S can do!
Good job guy's!!
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.
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?
Stevie Wonder clearly at the controls.
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 🤣
It’s amazing how they did this
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 can feel the frustration in the operator of the mini robot arm.
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
Great when you have R2D2 and his buddies helping out.
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.
Thats wild. The way its just spewing..
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'm glad they didn't play techno or tech-house music tracks to this operation
Agreed
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?
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 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.
That BOP is friggin' huge.
So is this a cap or does it lead to something to else to hold the oil?
At least there were 3 ROVs for this operation alone.
0:53 me after eating Taco Bell
the tether management must have been fun on this one
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
Im amazed the pressure of oil and gas keep flowing out with deepwater pressure
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 TH-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
Beautiful, great job. How long before that iron cap rusts into pieces 😂
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
How much oil must have flown
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
Pivot, pivot, pivoooooot!!!
🤣
Thank God.
Wish I had a funnel going right into a septic tank. Would resell it back to Arco.
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
Now we need soundtrack from interstellar dock scene
🤣🤣
Environmental impact, devastating. However, let's not forget that hard working, family providing, non-millionaire men died in this disaster.
Come on TARS!
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.
1:06 hold my bier
whoever on the controller must take forever in the bed room lol
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!?!?!
i wonder on how long the fix will last
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
Is this well still being drilled?
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.
Next : Accidental firing of nuclear missiles leads to Apocalypse.
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
Can it handle for too long?
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 :(
This isn't deep horizon. That well was much bigger. This is possibly really close nearby though.
How much oil have spilled out?
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 TH-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 :)
Where is that closing ?
The guys handling the ROV's can get you a plushie from an empty claw machine.
Nevermind how, they'll get it out, guaranteed.
Finally.
John C G finally what? this was nearly 7 years ago
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.
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.
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.
how much pressure was pushing the oil out of the ground?
bowlweevil 1400psi crude and natural gas mixed.
@@rayrandy41 SHIT ton more than that. Over 5,000psi.
How many decades pass before they rust out and blown wide open again?
Listen to interstellar docking scene theme in background. Play video. Enjoy
haha that rocks! - Great idea!
..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..
That was quick and easy. What's the big deal?
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.
What happened to all the oil that leaked?
You just said it lol. Leaked. All in the ocean. Killed everything near it. Terrible
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.
Remember: successful negative pressure tests start at zero, stay at zero, and end at zero
Are the people responsible getting out of jail soon?
This piece in my opinion saved the oceans and the world!
Uh- well- kinda. most of the damage was already done, though.
Incidents like this make nuclear energy seem a lot safer
Fukushima
Bro nuclear is already safer in the first place bruh💀💀
i remember alex jones's coverage of this scaring the shit out of me.
The fishermen of the Gulf Coast wish they could have a spill like that one every 2 or 3 years
The little robots that could
How does it not fall over?
Cable from the boat in the surface
“NOW”
“sorry sir not far enough”
“NOW!”
“nope missed”
“DOWN NOW”
“wait theres a pvc pipe in the way”
Watching underwater videos gives me anxiety. Not sure why
Submechanophobia or thalassophobia maybe?
My god, cant they solve an oil spill faster then that??? ffs....
YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT THE DESIGNER INVENTOR OF THAT CAP IS A SICILIAN.
Visibility was not too bad underwater otherwise it would be much more complicated
where's masterflo at?
Watching this you just wanna yell right there you had it but it’s not easy doing it underwater
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 why we have drawings...
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.
cant imagine how much those operaters were making
Brian True, I worked for Oceaneering.
Y'all didn't try flex seal??!???!?
They didn’t do this to help the environment they did it for the all that coin flowing into the ocean
What I want to know is how long can metal last before it disintegrates into dirt and wouldn't the oil keep shooting out for all time?
They plugged it many mny meters down into the ground.
Looks like a good well
I really don't understand why they didn't figure out a way to use the production? They put a new BOP on it so why not connect to that and run it to the surface? Or connect to the other holes they drilled to pump concrete into this hole. I suppose biggest issue is controlling any gas entering. That's a hella big torch if done wrong. Maybe they just decided/learned the formation was too unstable to trust. Probably true. The well from hell wasn't meant to be.