The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
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- An investigation by FRONTLINE and ProPublica into how the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico was preceded by countless safety violations. Could the spill have been prevented? (Aired 2010)
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Long before the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf, BP was widely viewed as a company that valued deal-making and savvy marketing over safety, a “serial environmental criminal” that left behind a long trail of problems - deadly accidents, disastrous spills, countless safety violations - which many now believe should have triggered action by federal regulators.
Each time, BP acknowledged the wider flaws in its culture and promised to do better. But from the refineries to the oil fields to the Gulf of Mexico, BP workers understood that profits came first.
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CHAPTERS:
Prologue - 00:00
Beneath a Ball of Fire - 00:59
On The Hustle - 10:06
Keeping Silent - 15:17
Disaster in Alaska - 23:33
Deeper Water, Bigger Risks - 33:05
"The Well From Hell" - 46:04
Credits - 51:38
Good on Eva for taking a stand instead of taking silence. Her forcing those documents to be released is amazing.
i live in Pensacola FL, on the Gulf Coast that was affected by this oil spill. i was a junior in high school and watched our tourist industry die essentially overnight because of it. 10+ years later, we still have oil washing up on the shore on occasion. i will *NEVER* forget this event, nor forgive BP for this tragedy.
Corporations aren’t people. BP does not deserve forgiveness.
Also oils going to wash up on beaches forever. It's called natural oil seepages
I was living in Destin FL when the deep water horizon blew and I know exactly what you're talking about BP fu#$@d up and they knew it
You can't imagine how much is still down there
How is Pensacola now more than 10 years after the spill? Do you go swimming there? Are there as many fish as there used to be?
Props to Eva Rowe for not settling and fighting back. BP executives must've felt really stupid in their high-rise corporate offices when a 100k plus odd fix ended up costing them 1 billion.
Nothing heroic about her. She wouldn’t have done any better if she had been in charge
@@d.j.2068 What is the correlation? I recommend thinking before talking 👍🏾
@@d.j.2068 How lol
1 billion doesn't matter to a 40+ billion company... that's equivalent to the average American dropping a dollar! Their corruption and how those 2 high ups got off Scott free is what infuriates me.
More than 1b. They paid like 1b in just penalties😭
My dad was one of the survivors of the fire. He had major burns and was in the hospital for months. I was 2 years old at the time
What’s his name?
I'm sorry to hear this and hope he's made a full recovery since then! What an absolute travesty this event was, it's a shame these things have to occur in our world.
Wow
Dude with the NDA did a bang up job of getting his opinion on video without violating his order
His report was already a part of the public record, so legally he can confirm its contents..
I think this should have gotten a mention:
The oil giant British Petroleum (BP) actually hired PR professionals to invent a concept designed to blame individuals, not fossil fuel companies, for climate change. And it was BP that revealed the phrase "carbon footprint", along with a "carbon footprint calculator" in 2004.
And u can pay carbon tax to offset your carbon footprint lol
Wow thanks for posting that. Amazing just how bloody greedy these giants are.
@@joeroganreviewexperience9964 dumb
Just imagine if our K-12 schools & colleges *actual taught the truth* of the many manipulations like this RATHER than teaching them as fact. Imagine if comprehensive US gov was a required subject in high school & college thus making sure graduates are able to see through the government’s smoke screens & also known how to force real changes.
Imagine if history was taught in a comprehensive way to have students understand why things happened in history, how we got where we are now, how history can be used to predict the outcome of various events & not only things to avoid but how to change the outcomes of things occurring. Imagine if age appropriate anatomy, physiology, how to stay healthy, common ailments, basics of how medical treatment works, etc was taught K-12th meaning graduates would actually know & understand how their body works, how to take care of it & how to better communicate/understand drs & treatments. Which could radically change the medical industry & help reduce cost of healthcare to the gov, insurance comps & citizens.
- But none of that will ever be implemented by the US gov. Why? BC a poorly educated &/or ignorant populous is easier to manipulate, keep divided & to control…in order to continue allowing the gov as a whole & its members to do whatever they want without consequences. And to allow the gov, gov officials, big business & the top 1% continue profiting off the suffering of the rest of the country. FYI that applies to politicians on BOTH sides of our gov.
The entire system in corrupt to the core & the ONLY way it can be brought in check is if the American people ban together & force real change. But currently America has & continues to allow our government to harshly divide us. So the question is…how bad does it have to get, what exactly has to happen before the population wakes up to reality, comes together & force real positive changes to benefit average Americans over making the mega rich richer?
I recently learned that food and beverage companies have been paying fitness influencers to make videos saying that artificial sweeteners are safe and promoting certain foods as healthy or good to eat. That’s why most companies are coming out with zero sugar drinks.
Ms. Rowe single handedly took on BP more than any state, government office or anyone else like no other. What a courageous and strong woman. She got more from BP than any other source including documents!
Ok
gRrRrL pOwEr. It's almost as though you're not systemically oppressed or looked down upon.
She should have continued on to criminal court and brought down the whole company. Unfortunately instead, she did eventually settle.
@Gambit22003 she wouldn't have won. American courts are not going to shut down a billion dollar corporation just because of unsafe conditions and a few employee fatalities.
She did far more than our government did. That's the point. One woman did more to hold the company accountable than the most powerful government in the world. Just like how no one ever went to jail over the financial crisis. Instead the CEOs made millions off the government bailout.
I live in Texas City, Texas. I'll never forget the day our BP plant blew up. I was at school on Galveston island, about 16 miles from the plant. We were outside walking to Chapel that morning and it sounded like a bomb went off in the distance. The noise stopped all of us in our tracks. My mother was in Texas City at the post office. She said the noise was so loud it made her ears ring and the windows of the building literally rippled. It was a horrendous, heartbreaking day. We knew several people there that day, one of whom was a team leader that lost every single person in his group. He was the only survivor. The survivors guilt eats him alive to this day. After the Texas City Disaster of 1947 that is generally considered the worst industrial accident in U.S. history, injuring over 4,000 and killing over 500, you'd think that the oil refineries would have taken note to ensure nothing like that happened to them. Seen just how easily a small, simple thing can cause so much destruction and large scale fatal consequences. I've lived in Texas City all my nearly 29 years of life, and it was just common knowledge that the BP plant was a mess. My father worked for another refinery nearby when he was young and has said that safety is often put on the back burner at refineries; profit is the primary focus at many companies. That BP plant in particular was in desperate need of repairs, and a few parts had barely been touched since the 1940's. They had been warned REPEATEDLY, over a period of YEARS, IN WRITING that if the safety issues were not addressed, there could be, and likely WOULD BE, a catastrophic situation. But, they continued to ignore them and cut costs by cutting safety standards. I've become so accustomed to the numerous refineries in my city that I often forget just how quickly something even more catastrophic than BP could happen. I also have to wonder just how many things I've been exposed to after hearing that bit about them releasing toxic gases for 40 days without telling anyone. With their reputation, who knows what all they did over the years. BP no longer has a refinery here, but I sincerely hope they have finally learned their lesson after all the death and suffering they've caused over the years. But it's hard to be optimistic with their sordid history. I mean, they obviously didn't learn enough because Deep Water Horizon happened just several years after Texas City. I also hope that the remaining refineries here took note from BP's failures and are not so reckless and not so quick to brush off serious, legitimate concerns about safety... even one accident is tragic. But BP has had far too many for it to be called coincidence. And several had significant loss of life. It wasn't like they were all minor accidents that didn't seriously hurt or kill anyone. It boils down to pure, unadulterated greed at the expense of the lives of those that do the hardest, most dangerous work: not the suits and the big wigs at the top of the company, but the people that work their assess off every day on the oil rigs and at the refineries; people just trying to make a living and provide for their families, who shouldn't have to worry about their loved dying on the job because of negligence.
Thank you. We need to have stiffer (and sweeping, across roles & responsibilities, BUT especially all the way to the top) civil and criminal penalties for these bad actors. Jailtime tends to change exec behavior, and there are standards in other developed democracies that have these. US is regressive.
Thanks Frontline, I'm currently writing a paper for a class all about this event right now. Great timing! Always look forward to watching these.
Outsource the task to me
Me too is your paper for school or to be published? B
@@bipolarmomandnowwhat Just for school. I'm not at the level where I'm ready to publish anything, but my professor is helping us get to that point. This is perhaps our first real trial. Thanks for your interest!
@@danyat6446 I THINK THAT IS CALLED PLAGIARISM, MY FRIEND.
My go to when it comes to truth time lined.
so at 6:25 the paper says $150 million but the narrator said $150k and within the next couple of scenes the 150M was changed on the so-called paper to $150k. did anyone else catch that?
Caught it. surprised it wasnt picked up on in editing.
Noticed the same. Was likely a fabrication (not a lie) for b-roll content and not a scan of an actual document, but still sloppy.
Yes I noticed and backtracked to double check what I saw. That's a lot of money for such a minor mistake or typo. Those could not have been a copy of the original documents.
I noticed that too
That's not the only thing I noticed. I'm not one to defend Big Oil. But there are several inaccurate representations being made.
For one: BP did not make any grand discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico. The US already knew about the oil deposits. The Gulf has been a major hotspot for oil production since at least the 1930's. In the mid 90's, the government placed an exploration and drilling ban in the Eastern Gulf region; to limit the ecological impact from an ever increasing expansion in Gulf oil production. The Eastern region was consequently designated as a federal oil reserve.
Fast-forward to 2009 and 2010: diplomatic tensions with Iran over its uranium enrichment programs finally reached a boil. In the years leading up to that point, Middle Eastern oil prices continued to rise as a consequence of those strained relations. That, of course, in combination with a variety of indirect consequences of the War on Terror.
With American dependence on Middle Eastern oil, we were facing a growing list of domestic crises as oil became more and more expensive. The Bush administration made early efforts to soften the blow by expanding domestic ethanol production as a supplemental energy source.
Obama administration also had its share of challenges with unaffordable foreign oil. So it took the additional step of opening federal oil reserves to expand domestic production.
All options were fraught with protests from various interests. The end result was the selection of the Eastern Gulf region. But American Big Oil was unable to finance the expansion out of pocket, as revenue had been greatly diminished from years of foreign oil dominance. The government was needed to step in and fund the efforts. As such, the federal government does what it always does. It put out an RFP and selected the cheapest bid.
Turns out, BP was the lowest bidder. So BP was awarded the first round of leases from the recently opened Eastern Gulf reserves.
This video is intentionally misrepresenting facts in an effort to over-exaggerate BP's poor history. Realistically, there's not a single player in Big Oil with clean hands. BP is just one of the gang.
What this video really is about? It's a continuation of those special interest groups who vehemently opposed Obama's decision to open the Eastern Gulf for oil production. They want BP out of there. It's not about the company. It's about the Gulf of Mexico.
Watched this when it first aired,BP is a very dangerous corporation,and this is the best investigative news program on television.
Refinery's are terrible esp for the people in the fields . Great job if your corpate and work in the buildings but the people in the fields i hailing all those fumes and toxins such a dangerous job too
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@lisavanderpump7475 I work in industrial (mostly powerplants), and with a lot of people that come in off of refineries and pipelines. They don't really have to deal with any fumes, but there is a lot of risk when on those job sites. A truck driver was killed a few years ago at one nearby from negligence... You have to rely on others to do their job and pray they didn't mess up or miss a step.
I refuse to work at refineries because of the risks. All it takes is a mistake or faulty equipment to get someone killed.
*adds to downloads immediately so I can sleep to this*
It's that voice
Just put it at the end of the video, wait until it stops, than hit replay, and there will be no adds
The problem is if it's interesting I find I'm listening to it instead of going to sleep.
Me too.
@@whatabouttheearth There will be ads.
My dad worked for Amaco @ the TC facility in the 70's. He developed COPD 10 yrs ago in his 60's, which has ruined his retirement. No Dr or anyone else will admit this is linked to his exposure to toxic chemicals in the refineries.
Amoco***
The medical "professionals" denials in this error is stunning. There are a number of medicos in the oil zone along the Texas coast who've denied the effect of known carcinogens on their own patients. AND in public discourse. It's like being in China (where on some topics, people literally would repeat, word for word, the party line, two or three sentences long, from the state run China Sun - it was soooo weird). Had lots of "doctors" do the same from Galveston, S Houston to Beaumont re: health and wellness, environmental factors. I'm sorry about the price your family has to play while so many people are ... lying.
BP: "The other lines still in operation aren't showing this problem at all."
Narrator: "Two days later, there was another spill."
Anyone with any common sense knows that unless there was something super special about that spot, that the entire line where the same material and age would be in the same shape.
My dad's vessel was one of the first to respond to the Deepwater Horizon explosion. He was a captain on a supply boat at the time. He spent a month offshore helping with the cleanup. He started working in the Gulf of Mexico in the mid-70s and said this was the worst thing he's ever seen. He said it was a nightmare come true.
Your father is a hero. I couldn't have done that. Too dangerous
Hats off to him and to you for letting us know.
Yeah I worked on it
Sure...
My mom was there too. On her sea doo
"Hey let's give corporations the rights of individuals"
Well as a result shouldn't they face consequences the same way an individual does?
"Hell no, they're corporations, not individuals"
Logic checks out
Hahaha our world.🤷🏻♂️
Yes indeed! Giving corporations the right s that were written, and intended for individuals is a major problem in the US. This is true not just for BP, but for many, if not all corporations. The movie, "Deepwater Horizon" exposed how BP skipped safety checks in order to save a buck. Disgraceful!
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Don’t blame the company. Blame the government. They set it up this way.
Wanna go after the leaders of companies that screw up, tell government to get the fuck outta business
That day was a panic day until I found out it wasn’t the rig my uncle worked on!! Then it was heartbreak thinking of the families that had to endure such sadness and grief!! My heart goes out to them!!
A lot of already very wealthy people made money off of this incident in Louisiana (dodging fines, getting rebates for the cleanup of an accident they caused). Please don't get the story twisted. This was an absolutely devastating incident for the seafood and wetlands industry but the oil industry never really paid the price.
@@Andre-sj5ii “We will make BP pay for the damage their company has caused. And we will do whatever's necessary to help the Gulf Coast and its people recover from this tragedy.” Another obama lie
@@Johnny2Feathers The man was all feelgood PR and empty mouth noises. Watch the "Business of Disaster" documentary on here too, they interview and follow the people he promised to help when he did a photo op in the hurricane sandy area.
I worked on land as one of the few females even on the drilling location (mud logger) end. When I heard what happened I said when they evacuated the mud I would have had the coast guard coming to get me. When you put your life on a BoP you have already thrown your hail Mary!! I call my son I had the privilege of 'breaking out' & this is the first time that has been mentioned. Thank you!!
@@tinahall9591 ???
As a safety coordinator this is a clear example of no safety culture! Shame on BP!
We can say shame on you all we want but still continue to use their oil. Pretty shameful isn't it? I don't know where the heating oil for my home is coming from. Do you think I even ask? Bad on me.
@@BarnaliD and what is your point?
Companies brings everything to us ,for convenience, fast,quick comfortable life....do you have a choice to choose what kind of human print you want to leave in the planet?
You ( need) = car,food,job plastic, gas,ect ect ect...
Absolutely! I worked for a company that was all about the Safety Culture and it showed. I would be truly frightened to be an employee of BP or any one of their contractors.
Shut up
Watch the Boeing documentary
The saying “you can have it cheap, fast and good but you can only pick two out of the three” applies here.
I remember this back in high school like it was yesterday.. witnessing the explosion from the rig and then the orange fluid leakage affecting sea animals in the river, especially the cranes and fishes.. and then many people and fishermen gotten sick from consuming them
Dear Frontline:
Please keep this narrator forever.
Best narrator ever
Will Lyman
@@floridanative7105 was he also a narrator for forensic files at one time or am I my mistaking?
Eva Rowe, good for you for standing up against them and doing what you did. You almost certainly saved many lives !
She (Eva Rowe)is the real hero here. I can only imagine that they have faulty plants all over the world. I bet the other 3 big oil companies have conditions that put lives at risk. Profits...all they care about is bottom lines. Pathetic. Despicable.
This guy sounds like joney depp
How dare you ruin my life I am too old and dumb and gay and stupid
She wanted money. She’s not a hero, she didn’t take a settlement up front and fought in court for more money.
@@jayosexy45 She also maintained the ability to publicly shame BP. The fact that BP had to go to court is kinda... ya know. The whole damn point
As a retired union industrial painter America's industry is severely corroded. I've worked in chemical plants (Rubber town, Louisville, KY) or, Dupont, Rohm and Hass, BF Goodrich, among other's. These plants were a ticking time bomb. Severely corroded steel supports, piping, tanks. I've seen painting over pipes that were leaking, in an attempt to hide the leak. I've been retired for year's, and, I think most of the Rubbertown plants have changed ownership. We use to call this area the Russian front. I've worked in Pasadena Texas, Houston area, the chemical plants, oil refineries, this was year's ago, and these plants were nothing but a rust bucket. An accident waiting to happen. Just look at our country's water lines ( Flint Michigan) , sewer pipes, electric grid. I painted high voltage towers and substation steel for several years. OSHA cracked down on these companies over safety issues, I'm not sure how much maintenance is done these days. Our country's infrastructure is rotting away. I haven't even mentioned bridges. It would be the most massive undertaking to update our country's infrastructure, no previous project would come close. Never in our history. But, we better get started, it's rotting away more each day. One small example, at DuPont, they had some very highly toxic acid, HF Acid I think. They watched these tanks with cameras around the clock. In safety meeting they said, if you got one drop of this acid on you, it would burn down until it hit bone marrow. Some wicked stuff.
I wont change industries now after reading .... sounds like a Russian roulette with taking on a contract . I don't have a death wish...........dam ......Good Thing you made it out to talk about it !
We have a Dupont plant in town (used to be First Chemical), sometimes usually late at night you can smell this pungent smell all in the air, all across town.
Distressing!! Corporate management is incentivized by profit not safety.
Another stellar documentary from PBS
I 100 % stop buying from BP years ago after I seen the deep water horizon movie and watch the survivor's interview on TH-cam so sad that BP will not pay for the survivor's medical need.
BP is not a good business/ company.
People need to stop giving BP business.
We are supporting them in many other ways
BP was bought out in 05 they probably could care less they are now owned by ineos I might be spelling it wrong but they're a worldwide respected company
Persecution
Discrimination, favor, gifts an influence all have this in common , money, the extraction of the earth, those who have title, but have not worked, those who are favored, feared, influenced by its current medium power of force on others. Ethnic ( or common principles) persecution , hostages and tribulations of its power and control, buying the flesh and manipulating minds, dividing one and the people, labeling them with a Tax between temples for earth. But profit is not alone and the public eye need not be a subject to self interest, interest rates, debt tax; entrapment to indebtedness, for it will not bring peace nor happiness to each others lives; Its feeding misery (court, square circuit). Reason holds the reins to horse power; strong feelings runs a mad horse who, is working like an animal. One does not possess influence (force) it possesses one , making it unjust to sell it, for its creates debt , but just to possess it, likewise oil, money or earth bound commodities , a property with rate of change with circulation and direction (force) . Moreover the use of such commodities needs the confidence vote of the people of the land, for the land follows the people and vise versa. The conscious is consciousness of others, but ignorance takes from one to give to another for acceptance, at a cost. But sharing promotes kindness and the intellect pleases another.
Who is in their legal department over there? Yeah, as much as I'm able, not a dime in this lifetime. I don't support cartels.
"70 million in fines" for Texas City... That's laughable. That's a "business tax"... that's like paying a toll on the way to work... that's just a fee of doing business for BP. Apparently it costs them less to pay government fines and bereaved families hush money after major accidents than it does to perform preventative actions and maintenance.
When the company makes yearly revenues measured in the hundred BILLIONS, a few tens of millions of dollars is chump change, it's a f*king rounding error...
Fines should be a DETERRENT for detrimental activities, not a "cost of doing business". If government was really interested in affecting change, it would impose fines and sanctions that would make screwing up MORE COSTLY than the capital expenditure to actually fix the thing in the first place...
Total JOKE. AGREE WITH YA 😉
Hear, hear!!
Completely agree. The fines should START at around ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS. Can't do business safely? Then you will NOT do business. Period.
I say it all the time and I will continue to say it, Frontline are the best journalism on TV. And that includes the intercept propublica and all the Affiliates that Frontline works with.
Not to mention a c Thompson who was one of the best reporters for propublica. I trust PBS and I always will
Ok dont say it again - joking Mat
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That iconic voice of Will Lyman, an American treasure.
I’m a contractor for a pipeline company in the south east, we watch that CSB ( chemical safety board) video during annual training. We are always at odds with corporate and the field. What sounds good in an air conditioned office doesn’t always translate in the field. Luckily the company I contract for does a great job with maintenance and attention to the environment. Not pigging the line is insane, a temporary savings now?? With all the degrees in a room where these decisions are made no one invested in common sense, or a back bone????
That's because there are rarely personal consequences for these executives. If something bad happens, the company and its shareholders are the ones left holding the bag. There is a little shame in getting fired, but otherwise executives get to leave with a payout. Like the lady told Haywood at the beginning of the hearing, he should have been charged with a crime. Disasters that occur due to cost cutting are not accidents, it's deliberate risk taking and betting the odds don't catch up to you. Start locking these folks up and not just walking away, then you'll see them suddenly start making more common sense decisions.
Kind of telling about American business schools, yeah? Since the 90's we knew there were some serious ethics issues coming out of business school. Reading a P&L sheet and scuttling meaningful metrics that would measure real risk and losses doesn't seem to have gone much beyond some pretty flat arithmetic. Saw this in high tech as well.
Some exec would say, I can save us $50M a quarter if we just stop doing some of this quality and customer service spending. company loses 13% of market share while doing so, refusing to support or repair (or replace) problem hardware with their logo on it after it's been deployed. Left small-medium business owners in the lurch. Saved $40M a quarter, lost $100M in sales and new customers, not just in that segment, but K-12, kids going off to college and other consumers. Because people will tell their friends and family (rightly so).
That same exex was gone after a year. And guess what he's selling at his new company? I can save us $50M a quarter if we just ...
Yeah, there's no accountability for execs and C-suite. And it really isn't brilliant.
Please keep uploading your docs PBS!! 🎯
My dad worked for Amoco all his life and this BP buyout caused him so much stress it ruined him and a family man got on heroin and crack to cope with the stress and I lost everything. I became a homeless 14 year old because of the evils of this company and the stress they put on their workers.
That's still no reason to turn to drugs or to go get on dang crack all because of some stress from a dang job man,just go find another job and DON'T go find crack!!!🤔🤔🙄🙄🙄🙄
Okay
Made up story, Bro.
@@DavianSinner if you only knew...whiting refinery whiting indiana
@@LONEWOLF-rq5tl hey friend, your life seems to be going well, and I'm glad for that. But you haven't walked a mile in this man's mocassins, so ease up on the judgement.
Can’t cut into those executives bonuses. A tenth of those bonuses would have paid for all safety fixes.
I was living in Destin FL when the deep water horizon blew and it killed the our tourist industry overnight within a couple of days the Beaches were a ghost town and I will NEVER forgive BP for what they did
Thank you Frontline, keep up the excellent work
I love how the called the CEO congressional hearing political theater. It's true and it's just useless PR grandstanding though you don't hear most new sources ever calling that out.
I want BP out of U.S. territory permanently...
Wonder how many politicians have accepted big bribes to look the other way...?
Persecution
Discrimination, favor, gifts an influence all have this in common , money, the extraction of the earth, those who have title, but have not worked, those who are favored, feared, influenced by its current medium power of force on others. Ethnic ( or common principles) persecution , hostages and tribulations of its power and control, buying the flesh and manipulating minds, dividing one and the people, labeling them with a Tax between temples for earth. But profit is not alone and the public eye need not be a subject to self interest, interest rates, debt tax; entrapment to indebtedness, for it will not bring peace nor happiness to each others lives; Its feeding misery (court, square circuit). Reason holds the reins to horse power; strong feelings runs a mad horse who, is working like an animal. One does not possess influence (force) it possesses one , making it unjust to sell it, for its creates debt , but just to possess it, likewise oil, money or earth bound commodities , a property with rate of change with circulation and direction (force) . Moreover the use of such commodities needs the confidence vote of the people of the land, for the land follows the people and vise versa. The conscious is consciousness of others, but ignorance takes from one to give to another for acceptance, at a cost. But sharing promotes kindness and the intellect pleases another...
Funny how BP keeps running ads on Facebook, and the comments are full of people bringing up the spill in the Gulf. BP responds to them with how they are "helping" to restore the economy and nature that they destroyed. They make their responses sound like they are doing a favor to the Gulf region, while never admitting guilt. This company hasn't changed one bit.
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the edits of the well sinking to the cost cutting measures was amazing.
My in-laws own a pipe fabrication in Texas and whenever we have a job (usually a turn around) for BP our crew are still to this day worried 😟
I bet. It’s a hazardous job under the best of conditions.
Don't worry BP is now owned by ineos was bought out in 05 after this happened so their literally just a logo now
@Danang Alta me too I thought they went bankrupt and disappeared but I saw one a couple months ago when I got lost in the middle of no where lol so I looked it up
@@alexandriarennie5992 how is '05 after - this happened in April 2010? This documentary is very clear on who was running BP thru 2010.
Excellent presenation - the epitome of Profits first, safety last - but preach the gospel at every turn, "Safety First". Spent 35 years in the oil patch, got gassed, poisoned, mistreated, and not a single acknowledgement from management.
A lot of people in my area worked on the rig. It has affected so many people. The survivors could not work due to their serious injuries and burns. They received settlements that didn't even cover ongoing heath care. The coastline is still effected.
Martin you have done a superb job with the journalism in this piece!
Is this video not working for anyone else?
This video won’t play. I have tried for a couple of days. I can play any other Frontline Video. Strange?
Thanks frontline, your program is an American treasure. I still do not eat any seafood from the gulf in 2022. A follow up would be great. I'm sure they are doing nothing different since this aired in 2010. They are criminals.
Please keep uploading your videos, these are masterpieces
This story hits very close to home
The company should be barred from doing business in the US for these kinds of infractions and pattern negligence.
Managers are not in a position to override science and standards.
Watching this made me ill and scared me quite severely. That ANY company producing any product with such an enormous potential for environmental impact (good, or bad), to have such a cavalier attitude towards safety is shocking. That said, I find it difficult to believe that the 5 competing oil executives would have preformed much differently if they had a Clearwater Horizon of their own.
This is why everyone hates democrats and doesn't take them seriously anymore. All they do when they riot is destroy their own and other private citizens stuff like a spoiled brat temper tantrum. Useless pawns just playing into the hands of these corrupt people. Nothing is going to change until they start turning their riotous targets torwards these politicians and officials. That BP CEO should've been stormed and lynched on the spot. These crooked billionaires need to start being afraid again.
Yeah I wouldn't worry about it
Thing is *none* of the other big oil companies who have rigs in the Gulf have had *NO WHERE NEAR* the leaks, spills, fires, explosions, sunk rigs or *deaths* as BP…even when you account for them having less rigs. And *nearly ALL* of the incidents & deaths on *both* BP’s Gulf rigs & their land sites have been proven to have occurred due to refusing to make repairs, cutting corners/rushing workers & ignoring safety protocols to save money.
Yes…I’m 100% sure the other 5 companies cut corners to save money. *However* unlike BP they seem to realize that…if nothing else…that spending the money to insure major disasters & preventable deaths don’t occur is *FAR CHEAPER* that the government fines, payouts to employees/their families & lost income due to damaged public image…not to mention settling state, community & ecological groups lawsuits. I read an article where the author added up *only the KNOWN* payouts & fines for each disaster along with the estimated costs of things they failed to pay for that caused/contributed to each one. In *almost every case* it would’ve costs BP LESS to have made the needed repairs, replacements, safety checks than what they were forced to pay out PUBLICLY… *not counting* the billions in undisclosed payouts. I could maybe understand having to learn that lesson the hard way… *ONCE*. But to *continue* to do it for short term profits…is just stupid. But like the one guy said the laws in place have virtually no real consequences to deter BP from repeatedly breaking them. Why is that the case? BC a significant percentage of those BP shareholders they mentioned pressuring the company to raise profits *are members of our US Congress*!! And BP along with all the other major oil companies & other major industry companies have lobbyist in DC who spend billions making sure they face as little restrictions & consequences as possible.
@@carpe_poon5761 send a link. I'd love to see it.
@@bhumphries1360 I watched it on firestick, should be on your provider. Im sure theres probably some on here if you search
I remember that during the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico you could smell a strong burnt grease smell all the way over in the town of Lake Wales, Florida, which was in the middle of Florida and about 300 miles away. The wind often blew from west to east, directly across the open water of the Gulf without anything to block it and then across Florida which is also flat. The air made you cough, and your throat and eyes felt very irritated. The smell even came inside your apartment with the windows shut. The local TV news would downplay it because Florida depends a lot on tourism, and they would show pictures of the spill site on a map as if it was very far away. The reality was it was not that far away, and it was directly in line with the direction of the wind. My apartment maintenance man who was outside a lot said he had started gobbling cough drops to sooth his throat. It was like breathing directly from a giant exhaust fan from a big greasy restaurant kitchen, when there was no restaurant anywhere nearby, just the huge amount of spilled oil baking in the Florida sun in the ocean water in the Gulf of Mexico.
Sadly, Trumps decision to further weaken regulations in this industry don't help at all. It's only a matter of time before there's another preventable disaster
Interesting! How long did the smell last?
Lived in Miami during Hurricane Andrew, now Texas.
Can’t view it. I can see other videos except this one.
Been on a huge Frontline binge recently - every single one has been fantastic.
Thank you TH-cam premium keep bringing Frontline episodes of documentaries from the history past future and present
Frontline does the investigation and research that our Federal, state and local governments fail to do.
Facts! However it’s sad that we can’t trust our own government and media anymore!!!
😂 the government allowed all of this. Then they act like “how’d this happen” when it blows up
Video doesn’t seem to work. Says no connection?
Same here
Oddly, works in browser. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Those NCSB investigation videos are really amazing. Credit to you all for using the footage.
It's USCSB, they have a TH-cam channel by that name with videos about many accidents
Thank you for what you do frontline!
This gentleman’s voice is so soothing thx Frontline I enjoy watching these documentaries 👍🏾
I've never bought gas at a BP station for the last 15 years because of how they treat their people.
Having managed PMS, safety and environmental for a natural gas processing company I know the pain in preventing these events. Multiple times I expected to be fired for backing engineers including the VP of engineering into a corner to get answers regarding project issues or to prevent drive by engineering (those who know, know). In the end I had 1 person between me and the company president and had his ear 24/7. For those still in EHE never let something slide if life is on the line, don’t let your pride be purchased.
I went on family vacation to gulf shores alabama a few months after the oil spill. We were there maybe an hour when the water started turning black and washing up oil everywhere on the beach. I was there when they shut the beaches down because it was so bad.
I live in a gulf state where our food culture is seafood and fishing is a massive industry. It's been years and we are still seeing some fish come up with mutations. It caused me to stop eating seafood.
Anyone else having issues trying to watch the video? I get a message saying, “ No connection Tap to retry”.
Also, not interested in a spam/scam respond.
It says no connection. Can you fix this please?
What blows up my mind is that companies in various complex industrial areas prefer paying billions in fines an settlements, to the normal maintenance of their facilities, which would cost WAY smaller amount of money.
Short-term thinking at its worst.
This is a perfect example of when management doesn't listen to the people actually doing the work.
Thank you for fixing this doc! It is available for me now!!!
Persecution
Discrimination, favor, gifts an influence all have this in common , money, the extraction of the earth, those who have title, but have not worked, those who are favored, feared, influenced by its current medium power of force on others. Ethnic ( or common principles) persecution , hostages and tribulations of its power and control, buying the flesh and manipulating minds, dividing one and the people, labeling them with a Tax between temples for earth. But profit is not alone and the public eye need not be a subject to self interest, interest rates, debt tax; entrapment to indebtedness, for it will not bring peace nor happiness to each others lives; Its feeding misery (court, square circuit). Reason holds the reins to horse power; strong feelings runs a mad horse who, is working like an animal. One does not possess influence (force) it possesses one , making it unjust to sell it, for its creates debt , but just to possess it, likewise oil, money or earth bound commodities , a property with rate of change with circulation and direction (force) . Moreover the use of such commodities needs the confidence vote of the people of the land, for the land follows the people and vise versa. The conscious is consciousness of others, but ignorance takes from one to give to another for acceptance, at a cost. But sharing promotes kindness and the intellect pleases another.
Journalistic Integrity - Thank you Frontline 😊
Persecution
Discrimination, favor, gifts an influence all have this in common , money, the extraction of the earth, those who have title, but have not worked, those who are favored, feared, influenced by its current medium power of force on others. Ethnic ( or common principles) persecution , hostages and tribulations of its power and control, buying the flesh and manipulating minds, dividing one and the people, labeling them with a Tax between temples for earth. But profit is not alone and the public eye need not be a subject to self interest, interest rates, debt tax; entrapment to indebtedness, for it will not bring peace nor happiness to each others lives; Its feeding misery (court, square circuit). Reason holds the reins to horse power; strong feelings runs a mad horse who, is working like an animal. One does not possess influence (force) it possesses one , making it unjust to sell it, for its creates debt , but just to possess it, likewise oil, money or earth bound commodities , a property with rate of change with circulation and direction (force) . Moreover the use of such commodities needs the confidence vote of the people of the land, for the land follows the people and vise versa. The conscious is consciousness of others, but ignorance takes from one to give to another for acceptance, at a cost. But sharing promotes kindness and the intellect pleases another.
this happened when I was just 5 years old. I never knew that people were killed due to BP's incompetence. truly unbelievable. proud to say BP has never made a cent off of me
Gosh I remember when this happened. I’m originally from the gulf coast but moved several hours away. Once a year we would travel back down to visit family and a beach trip was a must. I remember this ruining that trip for us because I, 13 at the time, was devastated we couldn’t go to the beach that year.
To call this a "spill" is dreadful.
Frontline does American history better than anything on cable news.
Another big thank you to Frontline.
I have an issue with this video, it says no connection tap to retry every time I try to watch it. I can comment and watch other videos, but this one only will not load or anything.
Back up now!
I absolutely LOVE your documentaries! Greetings from beautiful Belize!
Thank you Frontline for your excellent reporting. I am weary of the perpetual corruption to save small amounts.
I would really like to watch but it only plays on my phone. The video doesn't play at all on the TH-cam smart tv app, and the volume is muted on the PBS smart TV app. Anyone else having this issue?
Not able to play on my phone or computer web browser. First time I've encountered a video that doesn't play like this.
I haven't seen an oil major that works any differently from BP. Everyone I have worked for tries to cut costs and most of that is in areas of safety or worker's salaries excluding upper management
“No connection tap to retry” has shown ever since the video was uploaded… looking forward to watching this one.
Keeps telling me NO CONNECTION. All the other videos work. This doesn’t play
same thing for me. this is the only video i can’t play
@@kbeck303 any specific reason?
@@salmanGT4 no clue. i wonder if youtube flagged it for some reason and that’s what is causing it not to play 🤷🏻♀️
@@salmanGT4 i just tried again now and the video is playing! maybe you can watch it also
@@kbeck303 Thank you ma'am. Will check it out tonight
Anyone else getting a no connection error on only this video?
What country are you in? It could be blocked. Like maybe in Great Britain 😁
I’m in the US and it won’t play for me. I’ve tried to watch it on 3 different devices.
Same. And many others in comments are saying the same thing
Video is not playing, no issues with internet connection or the device. Other videos are playing fine.
I've been having the same issue today but it has finally played. Weird 🤔
How in the hell did those charges of manslaughter for the Deepwater Horizon get dropped!!!!!!!!!! 😡 My little brother has PTSD from the explosion in Texas City. 😡
Why you booing and put mad emoji?
Wonderful documentary . Keep it up
That backwards check valve is a design issue. It should be made in a way that makes it *impossible* to install incorrectly.
Greedy oil thugs! Sickening! Lock them up..instead of everyday people that can't afford bail for minor offenses!
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They should have held BP chief executives on the board responsible who put profits over safety…
I was digging a whole in the sand at st Joseph's bay for my daughter3 weeks ago. 10 inches down,oil . had to make my daughter get out of water. you could see oil floating. so sad.
I hope you reported it to the EPA.
I live on the Gulf Coast and still hear about oil being found. Those chemical "dispersants" used caused the oil to clump up and sink. It does not just disappear or evaporate.....
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Another good documentary 🙏🙏🙏
DOING THINGS RIGHT FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!! IS ALWAYS BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is so informative! Great job, fantastic reporting!🌻🌼🐝 Keep it up 🙌
Heck yeah. Love me some FRONTLINE ❤️
I remember all soo well when this devastating incompetent catastrophic man's fault incident happen.
It cause me to had to depart from a job which I was there for 21 years.
And BP have yet to compensate me for their SCREW UP.
I can't believe oil is actually rare or running out. If that was the case oil companies wouldn't let oil spill out of tankers, pipe lines and rigs like it was worthless.
Cost cutting higher profits.
Oil is a finite resource. it will run out.
@@curtismartell7959 It regenerates in the ground. Peak oil was a lie.
@@jakebredthauer5100 It matures in the ground. Regenerate is the wrong word. Are you into chemistry?
It's not rare or running out but rather these fuckers are greedy and evil as hell and it's honestly that simple!!
Write safer laws and enforce them. Stop letting them deny accountability. They lie and their decisions should be on their backs. Money does not heal.
i was just looking for a documentary on this a few months ago, cool!
That's not even profits over people anymore. It's sheer stupidity and incompetence.
Persecution
Discrimination, favor, gifts an influence all have this in common , money, the extraction of the earth, those who have title, but have not worked, those who are favored, feared, influenced by its current medium power of force on others. Ethnic ( or common principles) persecution , hostages and tribulations of its power and control, buying the flesh and manipulating minds, dividing one and the people, labeling them with a Tax between temples for earth. But profit is not alone and the public eye need not be a subject to self interest, interest rates, debt tax; entrapment to indebtedness, for it will not bring peace nor happiness to each others lives; Its feeding misery (court, square circuit). Reason holds the reins to horse power; strong feelings runs a mad horse who, is working like an animal. One does not possess influence (force) it possesses one , making it unjust to sell it, for its creates debt , but just to possess it, likewise oil, money or earth bound commodities , a property with rate of change with circulation and direction (force) . Moreover the use of such commodities needs the confidence vote of the people of the land, for the land follows the people and vise versa. The conscious is consciousness of others, but ignorance takes from one to give to another for acceptance, at a cost. But sharing promotes kindness and the intellect pleases another.
No connection, tap to retry
The mud slinging undertaken by the other oil CEOs is embarrassing. I have no doubt that Exxon, Shell and Chevron have done the exact same things as BP but they just don’t get caught. They’d already paid those politicians to look the other way whereas BP hadn’t had a chance to buy those politicians just yet.
There needs to be stringent regulation and serious enforcement for this industry. When corporate profits take priority over human life and safety as well as environmental consequences, then accidents like this are to be expected. Where were the inspectors and the regulators in this scenario? Where was the EPA? We can’t rely on private corporations to regulate themselves.
Not all companies act in the same standard as BP, on any given day there are thousands of wells being drilled around the world and yet they are being drilled safely and efficiently. To say that this industry needs more oversight is laughable considering the overwhelming changes made to the industry already. We fall under government oversight on multiple levels already. It was absolutely a tragedy and 100% BPs fault, but to limp all companies into the same group is harsh
"It was mostly political theatre."
Hasn't really changed in 12yrs, has it?