Deepwater Horizon: A Systems Analysis of the Macondo Disaster
In 2010 BP’s Deepwater Horizon catastrophe spiraled into the worst human-made economic and ecological disaster in Gulf Coast history. In the most comprehensive account to date, senior systems engineers Earl Boebert and James Blossom show how corporate and engineering decisions, each one individually innocuous, interacted to create the disaster.
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Deepwater Horizon: A Systems Analysis of the Macondo Disaster
In 2010 BP’s Deepwater Horizon catastrophe spiraled into the worst human-made economic and ecological disaster in Gulf Coast history. In the most comprehensive account to date, senior systems engineers Earl Boebert and James Blossom show how corporate and engineering decisions, each one individually innocuous, interacted to create the disaster.
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Deepwater Horizon: A Systems Analysis of the Macondo Disaster

Deepwater Horizon: A Systems Analysis of the Macondo Disaster

Deepwater Horizon: A Systems Analysis of the Macondo Disaster

Deepwater Horizon: A Systems Analysis of the Macondo Disaster

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Overview

In 2010 BP’s Deepwater Horizon catastrophe spiraled into the worst human-made economic and ecological disaster in Gulf Coast history. In the most comprehensive account to date, senior systems engineers Earl Boebert and James Blossom show how corporate and engineering decisions, each one individually innocuous, interacted to create the disaster.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674545236
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 09/06/2016
Pages: 280
Sales rank: 1,083,834
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Earl Boebert is a retired Senior Scientist at the Sandia National Laboratories.

James M. Blossom gained his engineering experience at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the General Electric Corporation.

Peter G. Neumann is Principal Scientist in the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI International.

Table of Contents

Foreword Peter G. Neumann ix

1 Introduction 1

2 Controlling Macon do 16

3 From Rig to Well 24

4 Weighing Macondo's Risks 36

5 The Struggle with Macondo 47

6 Planning the Production Tail Phase 65

7 The Production Casing Plan 78

8 The Cementing Plan 95

9 The Test and Displacement Plan 104

10 A Reconstructed Plan 123

11 The Systems of the Horizon 140

12 Up to the Edge 151

13 The Final Day 157

14 Going Over 171

15 The Lessons of Macondo 181

Afterword: Evidence, Reports, and Conventional Wisdom 185

Appendix: Technical Notes 209

Notes 259

Acknowledgments 281

Index 283

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