Director Peter Berg has moved into something of a storyteller of recent American history with Mark Wahlberg serving as his orator. The two initially collaborated on the story of Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell's incredible survival in a fire fight with the Taliban in 2013's Lone Survivor and will team again in December 2016 for Patriots Day, a cinematic re-telling of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and ensuing apprehension of the assailants. But now, they deliver Deepwater Horizon, which documents the horrors of what took place on the evening of April 20, 2010, more than 40 miles off of the Louisiana Coast, when a semi-submersible oil rig exploded into a ball of fire, resulting in the deaths of 11 crew members and causing the gravest environmental …show more content…
Jimmy and Wallace recognize right away that the executives have no interest in fixing countless and lingering problems with the ship, and both take specific issue with BP's Donald Vidrine (John Malkovich), a Cajun-seasoned snake of a man that the actor plays so animated and over-the-top, he becomes something of a cartoon villain. Wallace has a loving wife (Kate Hudson), a young daughter he never gets enough time with (Stella Allen), and the screenplay from Matthew James Carnahan and Matthew Sand makes sure we understand that Wallace and his co-workers take great personal sacrifice in agreeing to do this …show more content…
And he, Carnahan, and Sand seem to downplay the significant and unconscionable impact this tragedy had to the environment, relegating the fact that 210 million barrels of oil discharged into the Gulf of Mexico to basically a title card before the end credits. We have no mention of the well site leaking for two years after the well was supposedly "sealed." Oil was found as far away as Florida and while BP were subject to nearly $46 billion in fines and penalties, no one from the company has served any jail time for criminal negligence in the matter to date. BP emerges with little more than a few light bruises here. And that is frustrating to say the least. And so as Deepwater Horizon may be empty on emotion, it is nonetheless a visceral movie-watching experience. The sheer intensity alone is going to be enough for some to leave the theater and proclaim this is as one of the best movies of the year. Had Berg been brave enough to give us a wider look at the whole story, perhaps even an emotional buy-in that matched the shock and awe displayed on screen, he might have actually delivered
It shows us the beginning, entailing, processing and the consequence of the whole thing about The Gulf oil spill (also be called The Deepwater Horizon oil spill) of 2010. It latterly estimated as the second biggest oil spill happen on the earth and the most severe oil spill disaster happened on the earth.
As Drew Griffin states “The federal government estimated 4.2 million barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf, but BP argued in court that it was much lower. A judge ruled BP was responsible for the release of 3.1 million barrels. (Griffin, 2015) Regardless of the amount look what damage it has done and the many lives that are affected by this disaster. Many say for 87 days in a row due to an uncapped wellhead lead to this disaster. The loss of money, family seafood business, town tourist revenue, were affected by the oil spill. As Allbusiness eidotors states “For Voisin and other fishermen, the spill couldn’t have come at a worse time. “Processing plants are idle and we are in middle of spring larval season,”
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico occurred because “oil from the well shot up and out of the drill column under high pressure, extended on the drilling rig and exploded (wikipedia)”. The rig set on fire and later sank. BP, Transocean, along with government agency employer, all worked hard to avoid further spread of the oil.
After a long debate with the mangers of the rig, it was determined that the rig had a malfunction and overdue for a lot of updates and maintenance, but BP representatives did not believe it, and pushed the rig to its limits. The rig operated normally for some time, at least that’s what the BP representative were thinking, but they were wrong. The rig could not handle the pressure and it busted. Due to the negligence the rig eventually blew up, spilling a lot of oil. “The oil spill, the worst in maritime history, dumped 4.2 million barrels of oil, and officials released 1.8 million gallons of Corexit, a chemical depressant used to break up the oil, into the Gulf before the well was sealed.”(Marsa, 2016, para.
The Deepwater Horizon was a nine year old, ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible, offshore drilling rig built in South Korea. In 2008, British Petroleum (BP) leased it from Transocean to drill for oil in the Gulf Coast. In September 2009, the rig drilled the deepest oil well in history at a depth of 35,055-feet. On April 20, 2010 while drilling the rig exploded at 9:45PM (CST), killing eleven workers and injuring seventeen others. It was caused when methane gas from the well shot all the way up and out of the drill column, expanded onto the platform then ignited and exploded. The explosion then led the rig to burn, with the resulting fire unable to be extinguished 2 days later it sinked leaving
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill occurred on April 20, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. This oil spill was the largest spill in history in front of the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989. This oil spill released about 4.9 million barrels of oil into the ocean. This spill not only wreck havoc on the marine life but also the economic players that depended on ocean such as fisherman, tourism, and offshore drilling located along the gulf coast. Along will the spill the oil rig which was named Deepwater Horizon also went up in flames. This proved that the issue went far beyond just an oil rig that blew a line. Since this oil spill had drastic impacts all along the coast, BP which was the most liable for this incident faced criminal charges based on what happened. BP which knew the risks of deep ocean drilling failed to take the necessary safety procedures to reduce the risks of such incident occurring, thus was the reasoning behind placing most of the fault on them and not the other companies. The lack of regulatory oversight led to the issues and cost-cutting procedures opened the rig up to possible malfunctions like the one that occurred. During the spill into the gulf, BP sealed the well with cement which seemed to stop a majority of the oil from escaping the well. BP also recognized that the well was “dead” which was proven wrong when scientists still could conclude was leaking minor amounts of oil into the ocean. This spill not only proved to be harmful to the environment but also
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon, claimed by Transocean and contracted to BP, encountered a sad and yet powerful blast,ending with the lives of eleven specialists. It additionally uncapped an ocean depths gusher that streamed for 87 days. An expected 210 million gallons of oil hurried into the Atlantic waters, destroying marine natural life and conveying the tourism and fish enterprises
The Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico exploded on April 20th, 2010, pouring nearly 5 million barrels into the sea over a three months’ span. Endangering marine wildlife, as well as workers that were injured during the explosion. There were a 126 people on the rig, twenty-eight workers in total were hurt, leaving eleven that were fatally injured, while the other 17 were severely injured.
Deepwater Horizon was an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that exploded, leaving eleven dead and seventeen injured. The eleven people’s bodies were never found. These eleven people were platform workers. Imagine that.
The major ethical issue is to protect the stakeholders and win back the trust of the stockholders. Right after the disaster, the stock value of BP has significantly decreased by 52% in 2 months of times, published by the New York Times. There was also a significant drop in the sales by 40% in 4 months of time. BP was made to pay huge fines to the United States government including the federal costs, the cost to clean up the water and stop the leak, relief camps to the local residents, providing the stipends because of the unemployment, thousands of claims had to be processed and paid to the victims. The investors
The movie, Deepwater Horizon, was inspired by the events of the BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010. It all started with engineer, Mike Williams and the rig supervisor, Jimmy Harrell. The two men were called up, along with a few more crew members, to fly out to Deepwater Horizon and work on the rig for three weeks. Upon arrival, they were informed that the team whose job it was to run the cement log on the concrete foundation of the rig were leaving early without doing their job. Mr. “Don” Vidrine, a top BP company man, was the enforcer of this order. Don sent them on their way because the rig was behind schedule and had lost too much money to be attempting to waste more on something that was, in his mind, unimportant. The result of that decision led to a catastrophe.
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, located in the Gulf of Mexico exploded killing 11 workers and injuring 17. The oil rig sank a day-and-a-half later. The spill was referred to as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP oil spill, Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and BP oil disaster. It was first said that little oil had actually leaked into the ocean but a little over a month later the estimate was 12,000-19,000 barrels of crude oil being leaked per day. Many attempts were made to stop the leak but all failed until they capped the leak on July 15, 2010, and on September 19 the federal government declared the well “effectively dead.” In the three months that it took to finally put a stop the leak, 4.9 million barrels of oil were
In the following text we will analyze the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill from some of the well-known ethical perspectives.
On April 20, the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico led to the largest accidental release of oil into marine waters in history. As a result, a huge loss of money and life was caused and affected serious environmental damage to wild animals and water pollution. BP was accused of their irresponsibility that it took 87 days before the well was closed and sealed. BP’s shares
Deepwater Horizon oil Spill: BP’s drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico had an explosion in April 2010, causing the “largest oil spill catastrophe in the petroleum industry history”. It caused the death of 11 men and injury to several others. “More than 150,000 barrels of crude oil gushed into the sea, every day, for almost 5 months and up to 68,000 square miles of the Gulf 's surface were covered” (1).