Offshore Fossil Energy Update

Offshore Fossil Energy Update
Last week I watched the Deepwater Horizon movie ➊. I found it to be a worthwhile entertainment but I became quickly frustrated as unanswered questions kept piling up: What exactly were they doing? What went wrong and why did it have those specific consequences. Above all I wanted to know how close to the truth the movie was and, actually, the movie is surprisingly close for both the story ➋ and even the person's faces involved ➌.

The internet being such a great resource I quickly found all my answers and much more ➍, also a technological update where lessons from the Macondo field catastrophe were drawn ➎.

All in all it was a good reminder about what we are willing to do in terms of capital and technology investments in order to tap into that 150 million years old solar energy, stored deeply underground as hydrocarbon.

This must be right up in your alley Olivier Malinur though you probably already know most of this stuff.
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➡➊ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1860357 (IMDB entry)
➡➋ https://youtu.be/qnrIE8TrgSA (extended version of Mike William's interview)
➡➌ http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/deepwater-horizon/ (Real people vs. actors)
➡➍ https://youtu.be/aN2TIWomahQ (Standford's Roland Horne, Professor in the Department of Energy Resources)
➡➎ https://youtu.be/KDTeWxIRwgg (Eric van Oort, Professor of Petroleum Engineering)