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Deepwater Horizon (Design Lifecycle (Operating (Lack of casing on the…

- - - - Eight months before the Macondo well blowout, the blowout of the Montara well offshore Australia in the Timor Sea developed in almost the same way)
    - - Cut down on the casing
      - Using lesser quality cement
    - - The oil rig cost $1million a day to run
  - - - Workers on rig aren't aware of the changes that management made
  - - - Lead to fatigue
- - - - Management did not want to fix them as they are not considered as "mission-critical"
        
        High cost/ Behind schedule
- - - - BP sent Don to the rig as Deepwater was 43 days behind scedule
  - - - Poor Decision Making: cement quality and disregarded the negative pressure test results.
        
        Driven by money/behind schedule
    - - Different opinion on the test result and no further investigation were made to confirm results
    - - Good negative pressure test results were accepted

Drive for speed and cost efficiency (ultimately comes down to ineffective regulation in place and government’s support)