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

It appears that the blowout preventer did not have a true deadman mechanism. In such a device, one would need power to keep the well flowing and any failure would close it. Comments?

Since  BP has the ability to insert a pipe or tube into the cut off pipe, a devise, the opposite of  "a Chinese finger" , inserted into the pipe, and then compressed to form a plug may very well work.

Mike, you make a good point for alternative resources.  Please consider, as so many do not, that petroleum products do more than fuel our vehicles.  Indeed, the casing of the batteries you mentioned is a petroleum product.  Take a look at a few more of the products we would no longer have if the use of petroleum was eliminated:  

Ink, dishwashing liquids, paint brushes, telephones, toys, unbreakable dishes, insecticides, antiseptics, dolls, car sound insulation, fishing lures, deodorant, tires, motorcycle helmuts, linoleum, tents, sweaters, refrigerator linings, paint rollers, floor wax, shoes, electrician's tape, plastic wood, model cars, soap dishes, trash bags, permapress clothes, hand lotion, clothesline, soft contact lenses, shampoo, panty hose, food preservatives, fishing rods, oil filters, transparent tape, anesthetics, upholstery, disposable diapers, TV cabinets, cassettes, sports car bodies, salad bowls, house paint, toys, dolls, tires, glue, skis, dyes, cameras, combs, dice, mops, purses, dresses, pajamas, pillows, safety glass, hair curlers, synthetic rubber, eyeglasses, vitamin capsules, movie film, ice chests.  I am tired of typing so I'll just say there are dozens more.  Let's just tell the hundreds of thousands of people that work in these plants that we no longer need petroleum or their products.  

i like how people give out there ideas. It intrigues me to see how you guys think it happened.

Somewhere, out there, is an engineer, a company man who was actually in the position to make the decisions on that rig, at that moment, when the "mistake" was made. If that individual can be isolated, he would, as in most rig problems, be able to answer the question. However, the "lone gunman" will never be found, and the shady figures that handed over the necessary disaster to cause a crisis to increase the governments control over our lives will not be found. The only "disaster witness" to most of Americas crisis is Jamie Gorelick. She always seems to be just around the corner, with her cell phone in her hand....

It is unlikely Halliburton is the one at fault here unless the density of the cement they pumped was widely above or below the scheduled density.  If the cement density was too low (ie watered down) then the hydrostatic pressure could have been insufficient to control the reservoir pressure; and if the cement density was too high (ie accidentaly added too many sacks of cement for the volume of water) then the hydrostatic pressure downhole could have been excessively high (ie over the fracture pressure) and a zone could have drank all the ceement, leaving lighter fluids in the well which would be insufficient to hold back the reservoir pressure.  In either of these cases, Halliburton personel would have known if either situation was occuring as they do pariodic checks on the cement. The real questions to ask is why did BP replace the heavy ~14 ppg (pound per gallon) mud with the 9 ppg salt-water before capping the well?  BP made the shot to do this and MMS backed their decision ( and Transocean managment followed this unsafe practice).  Also, why did the BOP not close?  To those who are not familiar with the oilfield, Halliburton is likely the most respected company when it comes to cementing services in the oilfield.  Cementing was the foundation on which the company started.  I'm a petroleum engineer who works in West Texas and work with Halliburton frequently....they perform their work effectively and are extremely judicious on safety. 

Let BP make all the effort stop oil spillage.The damage caused to the environment is very big,people have lost jobs like fishermen,aquatic life has been lost,its absurd

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Are you smoking funny cigs,or just a foreigner,maybe a saudi.We,The USA should have been of gas 30 years ago,then we wouldn't be in this mess,And all our money wouldn't be everywhere else except here.Thats why its almost not worth the paper it's printed on!!

Check: Halliburton bought Boots & Coots for a way-over-the-odds price just before the expolsion.  B&C is contracted to BP to provide dispersant chemicals.Check: Ex BP CEO now Goldman Sachs top man sells 44% of the GoldS BP stock; these very same shares plummet nearly $100M days after the explosion.Check: BP CEO Tony Hayward sold his 1.2M stg shareholding in BP days before the explosion.Check: BP are setting themselves up as the global leader in collecting carbon tax (if they can keep Obama and the Banksters on side at Cancun...).  Check: If we fall for the Deepwater Horizon False Flag operation, we can kiss goodbye to all our so-called freedoms.  The World Government looks after Itself... They'll get rid of USCheck on PrisonPlanet.com uncover the latest conspiracy

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Hello idiot America.....wake up and smell the....!! You fools did all the work on this well period!!!! If US law would have permitted a British company to do the work in the first place, you lot wouldn't have blood/oil on your hands now! Shameless USA!!!

This is all so different from youtube comment arguments.

Do citizens of USA realise that a number of years ago ,there was a huge disaster on an oilrig off the shores of Scotland that killed 167 people (Piper Alpha). Owned by an American company (Occidental). The UK government did not react with the paranoia and bloddlust that the USA administration is showing . Instead they held a properly convened inquiry that led to new laws and regulations. As I understand  BP has stated its intention to meet its obligations. Nobody should die at work ,but in the quest for fossil fuels  ,(think coal mines also) there has been too many lives lost - Shall we all go back to caves and fires?

their is no point in blaming someone . each accident is warning that our concern towards safety should be increased.