The ramifications will be felt by exploration and production companies, oilfield services companies and oilfield equipment manufacturers, both in the united states and around the world, for years to come in the form of a more difficult political environment, a more complex and intrusive regulatory regime. Deepwater horizon was a fifthgeneration, rbs8d design i. The movie focuses in on the real life story of a catastrophic oil rig. Animation of april 26, 2018, explosion and fire at the husky energy refinery in superior, wisconsin. In its guilty plea today, bp admitted that, on april 20, 2010, the two highestranking bp supervisors onboard the deepwater horizon, known as bps. Beyond finger pointing safety culture and the deepwater horizon incident.
Deepwater horizon is a 2016 biographical action, drama, thriller, directed by peter berg. The deepwater horizon is about to return to the public consciousness with the release of a movie by the same name. Why deepwater horizon sank at the box office while sully. When i went to see the movie deepwater horizon with some of my graduate students last week, i did not expect accuracy. Deepwater horizon is disaster flick that takes on corporate greed. Deepwater horizon ends with a moment of extreme heroism. Portraits of the 11 who died on the deepwater horizon. Nine years later, the bp oil spills environmental mess. With vernon wells, ashley featherstone trigg, summer selby, ruthie bolton. The new movie deepwater horizon depicts the blowout that triggered the 2010 bp oil spill in the gulf of mexico. The deepwater horizon environmental disaster was even worse than previously believed new study says the effects of 2010 bp oil spill were 30 percent larger than calculated.
The deepwater horizon environmental disaster was even. Deepwater horizon is a movie that succeeds on two levels. The aftermath of deepwater horizon harvard law school. While most adultskewing films would generally be made on a conservative budget in order to protect themselves financially, deepwater horizon was produced for. Left behind on a giant burning oil rig, electronics technician mike williams, played with everyman restraint by.
Drilling for oil and gas is not typically viewed favorably or depicted. Hearing before the subcommittee on oversight and investigations of the committee on energy and commerce, house of representatives, one hundred eleventh congress, second session, june 17, 2010 deepwater horizon joint investigation team report. Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the offshore oil rig deepwater horizon april 21, 2010. For the most part, deepwater horizon, which was a typical fast moving action and suspensefilled disaster movie, was true to judge barbiers percentages. A sea creature is terrorizing a small gulf coast town. The creature is a mutation from the deep water horizons oil spill in the gulf.
Watch deepwater horizon 2016 full movie goat 2016 free. This can be problematic in deep, highpressure wells for two reasons. Bp shortcuts led to gulf oil spill, report says the new. The role of bp in the deepwater horizon explosion and oil spill. A dramatization of the disaster in april 2010, when the offshore drilling rig called the deepwater horizon exploded, resulting in the worst oil spill in american.
The central cause of the explosion aboard the deepwater horizon drilling rig was a failure of the cement at the base of the 18,000footdeep well that was supposed to contain oil and gas within. Welcome to our new and improved comments, which are for subscribers only. The budget was out of control, says boxoffice analyst jeff bock. Summary of criminal prosecutions enforcement us epa. Deepwater horizon 2016 financial information the numbers.
One year after the fire and explosion on the bp deepwater horizon rig in the gulf of mexico, we round up the main points so far. A dramatization of the disaster in april 2010, when the offshore drilling rig called the deepwater horizon exploded, resulting in the worst oil spill in american history. Short portraits of 11 who died on the deepwater horizon. The story is based on true events, and berg makes it. Cover memo volume i us coast guard report volume ii us department of the interior report deepwater horizon report appendices. Deepwater horizon 2016 mark wahlberg in deepwater horizon 2016 kurt russell and ethan suplee. It was years of cutting corners, not one careless mistake, that caused the explosion. The budget was far too high for a topical film with built in controversy, even if all.
The way berg directs the sequence of events is well paced and purposefully developmental for a good chunk of the movie. Its the story of the bp oil rig that exploded and contaminated the gulf of mexico. Deepwater horizon ar en amerikansk biografisk katastroffilm fran 2016, regisserad av peter berg och skriven av. The film depicts the challenges that mike williams mark wahlberg and the rest of the rigs crew faced as they fought for survival. Eight years after the deadly deepwater horizon explosion, a safety watchdog aims to prevent another disaster. The producers of the movie contacted mark wahlberg and told him they wanted a screen combo. But if you are expecting a deep account of who was responsible for the environmental disaster and why it occurred, you wont get it from this film. Bp is to blame for deepwater horizon, but its mistake was. Nine years ago, bps deepwater horizon drilling rig exploded off the coast of louisiana, causing the worst oil spill in us history.
The vidrine character spends much of the film complaining about how many millions of dollars over budget the rigs drilling operation is and. A professor of petroleum engineering assesses what the film gets right and wrong. A story set on the offshore drilling rig deepwater horizon, which exploded during april 2010 and created the worst oil spill in u. Filmen handlar om deepwater horizonexplosionen och oljeutslappet i mexikanska golfen 2010. Financial analysis of deepwater horizon 2016 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and. The disaster on april 20, 2010 killed 11 workers as the. Bp, behind schedule and tens of millions of dollars over budget, had taken shortcuts and ignored safety test results, ultimately leading to a failure of the cement base in the 18,000footdeep. Deepwater horizon joint investigation team report bureau. Telling the true story of the heroes behind deepwater. The deepwater horizon joint investigation team concludes bp, transocean and halliburton violated federal safety regulations and compensated employees based on how quickly not how safely they could bring in a well. The deepwater horizon incident is a seminal event for the offshore oil and gas industry. Lone survivor director peter berg helmed this docudrama about the deepwater horizon disaster, the 2010 oilrig explosion in the gulf of mexico that resulted in the largest offshore oil spill in u.
In his new film deepwater horizon, director peter berg takes a drastically different approach in his disaster movie. If you like deepwater horizon you are looking for factual, emotional and compassionate movies about with natural disaster, trapped, oil rig, sea, rescue, explosion and survival themes of action, drama and history genre shot in hong kong or usa. Start with the fact that although deepwater horizon focuses on those who survived the huge explosion on a deepsea oil rig in 2010, the premise. Deepwater horizon oil spill in the gulf of mexico marine.
Beyond finger pointing safety culture and the deepwater. The bigger problem is the kind of movies spawned from the framework of films like hours, most notably deepwater horizon. Why deepwater horizon sank at the box office while sully soared. Deepwater horizon oil spill in the gulf of mexico the deepwater horizon explosion and oil spill response efforts. The vidrine character spends much of the film complaining about how many millions of dollars over budget. New orleans like most bigbudget docudramas, the newly released film deepwater horizon takes some liberties with the facts in the. Deepwater horizon 2016 mark wahlberg in deepwater horizon 2016 mark wahlberg and dylan. It is based on a true story which caused a large natural disaster in the united states. The director of the deepwater horizon film had a replica rig built in a water tank holding 2.
As i said, much of the movie will light a fire in your soul that will have your patriotism in full force. Overview mark wahlberg leads an allstar cast in this unforgettably powerful film inspired by a thrilling story of reallife heroes. When this was communicated to the halliburton crew, they evaluated their next action based on the values of the culture. In hollywood, films like deepwater horizon are not supposed to exist. Start with the fact that although deepwater horizon focuses on those who survived the.
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