What Caused the BP Oil Spill 2010? Halliburton, Cementing Issue?

33 1/2 years as mud/completion/workover fluid engineer & drilling consultant doesn't make me & expert but a poor cement job may have been the 'ORIGINAL' problem, but It didnot cause the blowout. 'BAD DECISION/HUMAN ERROR' after cementing will be the blowout problem. Was the casing hanger set & tested? Was there already gas in the riser & no one knew it? When was all the +/-14.3ppg mud displaced with +/-8.55ppg seawater, before or after differentially testing the casing hanger? Was the casing hanger running tool, drill pipe tool joint or casing itself opposite the BOP shear rams preventing them form closing? So many unanswered questions!! 

Here's the deal! First off, we need to always remember that accidents happen. When an accident happens, we need to recognize that people suffer. God Bless the families of the lost hard working people that suffered this tradegy. There have been more than 30,000 wells drilled in the GOM since they have started drilling. This is the first significant disaster! Although it is the first and largest, oil companies need to prepare for this each and every time. No exceptions! They will and have prepared for this to this point. They will prepare again! It's easy to say that they are greedy when something like this happens, stop that! They are delivering the product that we use most and we desperately need it. Whether you like companies making money or not, most of us are glad that we don't have to ride a bike or horse anymore. Now, a blowout almost never happens when drilling is completed unless these things happen. First, drilling mud is extracted before bottom hole plug is placed and tested. Second, drilling mud is extracted before second plug is tested. So forth and so on. Most all blowouts happen when drilling is ongoing and higher psi is encountered and it is not prepared for. Evidently this is not the case with this well. My perdiction is that someone dropped the ball with the cement plugs, mud weight, fault fracture(meaning that after drilling was complete and cement was tested, a parallel fault/production sand ruptured the targeted sand which overcame all drilling mud, cement with psi, etc...). Just my thaughts, and again my heart goes out to the working people that lost their lives and their families. We need to pay attention to the working people lost and we need more of them in this country, TAX PAYERS! Continue on American oilfield, we can't lose you!!

Fine I respect your experience but let's let an  inquiry determine that. Some factsAround 40% of BP shares are held by UK shareholders, and 39% in the USA. The UK dividends represent approximately one-seventh of all dividend payments in the UK and form the basis of many pension schemes. British Petroleum merged with Amoco (formerly Standard Oil of Indiana) in December 1998,becoming BP Amoco plc. In 2000, BP Amoco acquired Arco (Atlantic Richfield Co.) and Burmah Castrol plc. In 2001 the company formally renamed itself as BP plc and adopted the tagline "Beyond Petroleum," which remains in use todayThe rig was :-US BuiltUS OwnedUS OperatedSo how come BP or "British Petroleum" as Obama likes to refer to it still, comes in for 100% of the blame before all the facts are in?Piper Alpha in the North Sea, when that blew up killed 167 people - owned by Occidental - Maggie Thatcher did not demonize them as Obama/CNN etc is trying to do to BP

If the cement didn't fail the blowout preventer would have had no job to do, had it not failed.Your argument is invalid.You should be aware Halliburton are involved in 18 proven or suspected cement failures out of 36 deep water projects.

Definitely a "False Flag Operation".If this was not the result of faulty cement, then one has to ask ones self, why, after so many different drilling disasters, with the billions if not trillions of dollars spent on the very best high priced consulting and management, could this NOT be the INTENDED outcome.And IF this was an INTENDED outcome, then WHY would they want this to happen?Could it be that they want to ratchet up the desire of Americans to accept a "Carbon Credit Taxation System"? Obama and many others have been pushing for such a thing..... something that will tax the very breath you exhale.Did you know, that BP directly profits from such a system and they have been lobbying for Cap and Trade for years now?Did you know that the CEO of BP cashed in a HUGE number of his stock in his own company just prior to the spill..... did you know that Goldman Sachs (remember them from the "toxic asset" Bank Bailout?) sold over 40% of THEIR stock in BP just prior to the blowout in the Gulf?Did you know that Haliburton, who was in charge of the Blowout Preventers and Well Head construction bought an oil spill cleanup company (Boots & Coots) just days prior to the disaster?Did you know, that while we were all concentrating on this, that our Senate is ginning up another bill that will restrict our free speech on the Internet by blocking sites we go to and that the Rumsfeld era spying on Americans is about to resume under a different name?Wake up people... the news is not the news... it's a video blindfold that enslaves you.How long are we going to ask questions and not get answers? What happens when we don't get answers? Do we start retaliating or do we just slink back into our easy chairs and pop another cold one, raising hell at one side or the other?We will keep getting the same results unless we take a stand. All at once. Take down the banks, the bankers, the corporations and the politicians that have allowed this on their watch. Read, learn and listen and stop allowing these profit mongers to influence you with chump change... we want REAL CHANGE!Raise Hell in YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD NOW!

To you and the arrogant "Drilling Supervisor" above --The day of the blowout I heard from several "oil rig workers with X years of experience" who (after screaming at the 'tree hugging libs') said that it was IMPOSSIBLE for oil to leak out of the well since it was 'obviously' only a Natural Gas well...  Is it politics or the smug overconfidence that comes with experience that leads people like you to pontificate with 100% SURETY about things that you are not 'in the loop' about?  How can you say "I KNOW that this was not the cause"???If you are not sure, perhaps you can have the modesty to say "I do not BELIEVE this was the cause" because we don't believe you anymore.  Fool me once, shame on me, etc.Try modesty for a change, it would sure help the world know who to listen to and who NOT to.Now, check out this link, Mr. Smart Drill Superintendant and tell us what you think of the Halliburton Powerpoint presentation WARNING that methane crystals + deepwater cementing can lead to blowouts!!!!seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/44349At least you didn't call me a "godless libtard" yet.... YET.

 By "checking the pressures", would that have anything to do with Accenture, the baby company of Halliburton who builds network security systems and who's website (www.accenture.com/Global/Services/Accenture_Technology_Labs/R_and_I/IndustryIndustries.htm) talks about how they make sensors for oil rig use for just that reason? "Whether they are placed on oil rigs to provide a continuous report of conditions or within chemical tanks to measure temperature and weight, sensors' ability to gather and communicate data remotely have already added efficiency and value to these high-touch areas of the business." Were they just "taking the day off", or something?

 By "checking the pressures", would that have anything to do with Accenture, the baby company of Halliburton who builds network security systems and who's website (www.accenture.com/Global/Services/Accenture_Technology_Labs/R_and_I/IndustryIndustries.htm) talks about how they make sensors for oil rig use for just that reason? "Whether they are placed on oil rigs to provide a continuous report of conditions or within chemical tanks to measure temperature and weight, sensors' ability to gather and communicate data remotely have already added efficiency and value to these high-touch areas of the business." Were they just "taking the day off", or something?

Kent, you godless libertard (at your request...!), believe it or not, there ARE many experts in the area of drilling operations (myself being but one). Many may "say" that they are in blogs as this one to try and give false creedence to their loony arguments, but others may actaully know what they are talking about.  It is obvious that you have zero technical knowldge on these matters.  The fact is that a combination of problems and failures created this event - it is NEVER a single event or problem because there will ALWAYS be backup systems and procedures designed to prevent this from happening (as there always are) but that multiple failures occurred. Why after all of this time has Obama NEVER even talked with the CEO of BP?  Now THAT is unimaginable mismanagement of the first order!