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In Reply to: RE: 'Deepwaater Horizon': "Slum-burger, democrat" posted by Billy Wonka on September 30, 2016 at 14:28:56
...from the reviews it sounds more like an action/disaster film.
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pronounced: Shlum ber jay
A real company, listed on the NYSE as SLB
Known for their services to the oil drilling industry. They supply parts and machinery for the purpose.
re: the movie. I haven't yet seen it, so I'll be interested in seeing what ties in that company to the "incident" on the DeepWater Horizon.
2010. I recall that cable news TV would just not let up on that continuing story for what seemed like a solid year of highly detailed reporting. A very big deal. I hope it serves to motivate all other big oil companies to clean up their methods and attitudes on the hazzards associated with deep water oil rigs. Never again would be a good motto.
-Steve
Marky pronounced it correctly and was corrected by a good, olde boyz.
Haven't seen it, but I think "democrat" would be a slag on Marky's character for pronouncing Schlumberger correctly, which one would expect any good Cajun would be able to do.
Schlumberger provided wireline logging services for the rig. I doubt they interpreted any of the logs, but rather turned the data over to BP or Haliburton and went home.
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"We are as gods and might as well get good at it." - Stewart Brand
who BP cut loose before final testing due to money.
I just did a little investigatin'...
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BP contracted Schlumberger to run the Cement Bond Log (CBL) test that was the final test on the well plug that was skipped before the April 20 explosion. The oil industry website, www.oildrum.com quoted Gregory McCormack, director of the Petroleum Extension Service at the University of Texas, as saying the CBL is the "gold standard" of cement tests. The website reported the CBL "records detailed, 360-degree representations of the well and can show where the cement isn't adhering fully to the casing and where there may be paths for gas or oil to get into the hole."
Schlumberger's contractors ordered BP's Deepwater Horizon operational manager to dump kill fluid down the well to plug up the well. The BP manager refused and. Schlumberger's team asks for a helicopter to evacuate all Schlumberger's personnel to shore. BP's manager replied that there were not more scheduled helicopters that week but the Schlumberger crew interceded with Schlumberger's front office, which sent a helicopter to evacuate their personnel at Schlumberger's expense.
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"We are as gods and might as well get good at it." - Stewart Brand
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It never quits. I was involved with the Exxon Valdez mess in Prince William Sound. As horrible as that was, and as much stupidity was involved in it happening, the Big Awl Boys were almost immediately at work spinning the event into something overblown by the media. They were being picked on.
Priorities were PR and CYA first; everything else second. Emergency actions were Coast Guard initiated; not by company. To date, Exxon has paid about a penny on a dollar for damages and recovery.
My point of view? If a movie casts an oil company in bad light, then I call it truth, not spin.
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