Many familiar terms, BOP, DP, Rig, kill pipe, mud, etc.; there are also many familiar equipment, top drives, slips, iron drillers, drill pipes, blowout preventers, vibrators, etc.; there are many familiar position, footman, driller, toolpusher, supervisor, electric engineer, etc.; familiar operation process, cementing, logging, drilling, etc.
I have also worked on land drilling platforms, and I know that the conditions in various aspects are incomparable to those of offshore platforms, but there are still many similarities. In reality, as the supervisor of Party A, he also attaches great importance to the drilling progress, because drilling is charged on a daily basis. If the well is completed in advance, a large amount of cost will be left, and the supervisor will also receive bonuses. The cost of offshore drilling platforms is higher. The daily rent is also more expensive. After a rough search on the Internet, the daily rate of a deep-sea drilling platform like the Deep Sea Horizon is estimated to be around US$500,000. If there is no drilling operation, the rate will be reduced accordingly. Therefore, the film is 43 days behind schedule. It's really stressful. Although the drilling party can get rewards for completing the well ahead of schedule, it is only a small amount compared to the daily fee. If the drilling is not stopped due to Party B's reasons, the daily fee will still be paid. Therefore, there is a conflict of interest between Party B and Party A in the drilling progress. , so when encountering difficulties, Party A generally does not follow the advice of Party B’s team leader and driller, but makes decisions entirely by itself.
Drilling operations generally involve three parties. For example, in the film, the owner of the oil well is BP, which is a large party. It has the ability to process and sell oil, but is not good at engineering operations; Halliburton is the contractor who is the party A. , has rich and professional petroleum engineering operation capabilities and engineer reserves, but no hardware equipment; Halliburton subcontracts the drilling operation to transoceanic drilling, and subcontracts the cementing operation to Schlumberger. It's strange that Halliburton is not mentioned in the film, which is a little strange.
Drilling still pays great attention to safety, and there should be no blowout caused by human error as in the film. Although the drilling engineering has been developed for decades, there are still many unknowns. There are too many risk factors when it goes deeper than 4,000 meters underground. But there are only a handful of big accidents like blowouts. After all, there are still many insurance measures, but none of them took effect in this movie. The rubber of the annular blowout preventer was punctured, and the shear ram was also punctured. , resulting in the inability to follow-up operations such as well killing. I can understand the high pressure, but why there are so many solid objects, and even the shear ram is interrupted.
There is no HSE position in the film, but the platform manager has taken on such a responsibility, which is somewhat different.
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