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Deepwater Horizon 2020: Remembering BP's
2010 Disastrous Blowout—10 Years Later
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Deepwater Horizon 2020 combines two of the author’s
previously published books about BP's 20 April 2010 Macondo
blowout aboard Transocean's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
The tragedy has been defined as one of the most lethal, costly,
manmade, environmental disasters in history. As a career
drilling engineer and technical executive, the author’s mantra
has long been and remains: Only if we understand and care
about the cause of BP’s Macondo blowout will we know why it
should not have happened and why it should never happen
again. To this end, the author researched depositions, rig
reports, company documents, and public information about the
blowout and published “The Simple Truth: BP’s Macondo
Blowout,” in 2012. Based on his research for The Simple
Truth, the author made technical, academic, and keynote
presentations around the world about the cause of the blowout
and subsequently published “From the Podium: The Cause of
BP’s Macondo Blowout.” The nonfiction work compiles the
author’s drawings, text, Q&A conclusions, and
recommendations. Now, 10 years after the tragedy, with a new
generation of students, faculty, and technical and management
personnel across the oil-and-gas industry, “Deepwater Horizon
2020” combines the previous works, eliminates duplication,
and links footnotes, diagrams, and references between the
books. Post-blowout accident investigations—academic, legal,
regulatory, societal, forensic, environmental, financial,
technical, and presidential—evolved on two fronts: Root

Causes and Technical Causes. Root Causes include safety,
procedural, communications, cultural, human-factors, financial,
and other organizational processes that define the involved
companies. This book, Deepwater Horizon 2020, does not
address Root Causes, finger pointing, attorneys, deep
pockets, names, or companies. Rather, it focuses on the
Technical Causes of the blowout: specifically, what happened
on the rig and in the office on a minute-by-minute, decision-bydecision
basis that allowed the 3 ½ mile-deep, high-pressure
oil well to erupt without control onto the rig, explode and catch
fire, kill eleven, injure and disable dozens more, sink the rig in
a mile of water, and dump more than 200 million gallons of
crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. It does so in two parts: The
Simple Truth and From the Podium. em em
Deepwater Horizon 2020 combines two of the author’s
previously published books about BP's 20 April 2010 Macondo
blowout aboard Transocean's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
The tragedy has been defined as one of the most lethal, costly,
manmade, environmental disasters in history. As a career
drilling engineer and technical executive, the author’s mantra
has long been and remains: Only if we understand and care
about the cause of BP’s Macondo blowout will we know why it
should not have happened and why it should never happen
again. To this end, the author researched depositions, rig
reports, company documents, and public information about the
blowout and published “The Simple Truth: BP’s Macondo
Blowout,” in 2012. Based on his research for The Simple
Truth, the author made technical, academic, and keynote
presentations around the world about the cause of the blowout
and subsequently published “From the Podium: The Cause of
BP’s Macondo Blowout.” The nonfiction work compiles the
author’s drawings, text, Q&A conclusions, and
recommendations. Now, 10 years after the tragedy, with a new

generation of students, faculty, and technical and management
personnel across the oil-and-gas industry, “Deepwater Horizon
2020” combines the previous works, eliminates duplication,
and links footnotes, diagrams, and references between the
books. Post-blowout accident investigations—academic, legal,
regulatory, societal, forensic, environmental, financial,
technical, and presidential—evolved on two fronts: Root
Causes and Technical Causes. Root Causes include safety,
procedural, communications, cultural, human-factors, financial,
and other organizational processes that define the involved
companies. This book, Deepwater Horizon 2020, does not
address Root Causes, finger pointing, attorneys, deep
pockets, names, or companies. Rather, it focuses on the
Technical Causes of the blowout: specifically, what happened
on the rig and in the office on a minute-by-minute, decision-bydecision
basis that allowed the 3 ½ mile-deep, high-pressure
oil well to erupt without control onto the rig, explode and catch
fire, kill eleven, injure and disable dozens more, sink the rig in
a mile of water, and dump more than 200 million gallons of
crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. It does so in two parts: The
Simple Truth and From the Podium. em em