PICS OF TRANSOCEAN HORIZON DISASTER

[SANCHOBA]

hits a little close to home. the last pic is of the rig we tie off to,and a pic of the boat i'm currently captain of. take a close look at the rig i run to.....notice the pilings? we are working in 15ft. of water! they placed pilings next to the rig for us to tie off too! LOL! only in louisiana!

 

[Scrambler1]

A friend of mine captains a supply boat out of Port Fourchon. Titan something. Anyway he runs right past the Horizon. A bit too close to home for him too.

 

[RedSrt007]

excuse the ignorance here...but what the heck is that? something to repair ships? or maybe something dealing with oil?

 

[Wifey]

excuse the ignorance here...but what the heck is that? something to repair ships? or maybe something dealing with oil?

Morning Pat

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/f...-disaster-as-oil-rig-sinks-20100423-tjce.html

 

[YellowFeverNo28]

Wow...the pics of the oil rig aflame are just insane. Do they have any idea of what could have caused the explosion yet?

 

[DevilDawg3097]

Wow...the pics of the oil rig aflame are just insane. Do they have any idea of what could have caused the explosion yet?

According to the news, they hit a gas pocket and had a blow out. I'll Let the guys who do it for a living explain. Only way I can describe it would be like using a post hole drill and hitting a gas main.

 

[RedSrt007]

Morning Pat

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/fears-of-environmental-disaster-as-oil-rig-sinks-20100423-tjce.html

Wow...I must be living under a rock

 

[Tooloe]

pretty much what happend.... and i drilled for a year or so and have worked on a rig for 4 years..... anyway heres what i think happend


when a rig has a blow out or a "Kick" its a simple deadly process your drilling a hole in the ground and you hit a gas pocket. if the mud is not weighted enough to hold down the gas the gas simple goes to the surface. there are many ways it could have happend... but i think the driller got lazy and didn't see the signs that you normaly see before a kick.. i've personally seen a kick and be on a rig when we took one it's not fun... but you have to have the crew trained to shut it in fast.

 

[YellowFeverNo28]

pretty much what happend.... and i drilled for a year or so and have worked on a rig for 4 years..... anyway heres what i think happend


when a rig has a blow out or a "Kick" its a simple deadly process your drilling a hole in the ground and you hit a gas pocket. if the mud is not weighted enough to hold down the gas the gas simple goes to the surface. there are many ways it could have happend... but i think the driller got lazy and didn't see the signs that you normaly see before a kick.. i've personally seen a kick and be on a rig when we took one it's not fun... but you have to have the crew trained to shut it in fast.

Gotcha, I understand it much better now. What can a drill operator do to prevent something like this from happening? Sorry for all the questions, I just don't know anything about that line of work.

 

[Venom Power]

I've gotten so many calls from people thinking I was somehow on that rig because I've been working in Lafayette, Louisiana recently. I am sure tools I've built were on that rig though. This situation is really bad all around and my heart goes out to the families of the 11 missing.

 

[Django]

Thanks for your sacrifice and sincere prayers to all those wholse loved ones are lost.

D

 

[Yellow venom]

The BOP valve must not have worked? Thats gotta be some intense situation!

 

[Yellow venom]

How close to shore is the oil spill now?

 

[viperhauler]

it's on the shore in some places....

 

[bigike]

OIM of the rig i was on in brazil thinks that maybe they saw the kick, and tried to hold it down with mud to avoid blowing out at the sea bed, but it was one hell of a kick..... They will have to drill control wells now to try and get it back, i can't imagine how they can hit the well but those directional drillers are the shit.

 

[Prof]

I have a friend that retired to the coast of Louisiana just before Katrina hit...they have had to rebuild totally...just finished, and now expect their property to be coated in oil this morning when they get up. Best projections are that if the blowout is capped immediately their fishing paradise will not be back to normal for three years...but now BP is saying it might be three months before they can get the leaks stopped.

This is possibly a huge ecological and financial disaster that may rival the Exxon Valdez accident. Heart breaking in lots of ways.