Macondo

John Morrison

Chapter Chapter 1 in The Social License, 2014, pp 5-11 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract At 8.50 pm the rig personnel felt “a kick.” They had been monitoring the cement pumped down to the bottom of the production casing of Block 252 of the Mississippi Canyon in the Gulf of Mexico, one of the deepest deepwater oil wells in the world. The rig was 48 miles off shore, in 4,992 feet of water and drilling to a depth of 20,600 feet.2 The jolt they felt was an imbalance between the pressure of the drilling fluid and the hydrocarbons in the reservoir at the bottom of the well deep below the sea. Within ten minutes these hydrocarbons had flowed up the riser onto the rig floor and caused the rig to explode—a chain of events that would kill 11 platform workers and cause the largest offshore oil spill in US history. The platform was the Deepwater Horizon, contracted by BP to exploit the “Macondo Prospect” (named after Gabriel García Márquez’s fictional Colombian village). The rest is a matter of recent history.

Keywords: Social Contract; Drilling Fluid; Public Relation; Deepwater Horizon; Social License (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137370723_1

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