[QUOTE=CPTdrillersails;37133]Bullshit. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. Complete bullshit. I’m not even directly in your small sector of the field and I know that is bullshit
Regardless what a drilling contractor does, a blowout (or any well failure) is not preventable if the completion design is fatally flawed. Unless you are saying that all blowouts are preventable if the well is never drilled in the first place, and then, we finally find something to agree on. If a well’s casing design and construction is so flawed that it can’t handle reservoir pressure at the BOP, then regardless of what the drill crews do, it is doomed. In this case, by all available information, the casing design and well completion were just that fatally flawed.
Ask any well control school if they disagree.
To also use your words ‘one aspect of any failure that’s detrimental to honesty surrounding’ drilling is pretending that the lowest level of drill crew (and government) should either understand or have veto power over the well design created by their clients. Especially when their clients are the 'smartest guys" at the biggest multi-national, multi-billion dollar petroleum company in the world. What is TOI or the government expected to know that bp doesn’t?
Your entire premise is that everyone should assume bp is staffed by reckless morons who don’t know their job, or don’t care about anything. Hardly comforting. Hardly worth defending!
Your last sentence though really makes me laugh so bad my side hurts. Now you are really grasping at straws. Expecting a drilling company to take on the liability for downtime for their client’s poor design and fuckups? Are you freaking serious? Though I’m sure you have significant experience in the industy, you can’t possibly hold the job you say you do (independant drilling company staff) after saying something that freaking moronic. As I’ve said before, I don’t work in this particular aspect of the geologic/drilling business, but I am a geologist, I have worked in the engineering consulting field for decades, and I do own a drilling company. If I said something like what you just said, I might as well put a “please kick me, I love it” sign on my back. Then I would put in my application to flip burgers at McDonald’s.[/QUOTE]
All well control schools will tell you that all blowouts are preventable. It’s a very simple statement. Operators and drilling contractors have to anticipate the highest pressures that the well can throw at them. And act accordingly. I repeat, all blowouts are preventable.