Oil or Nothing: BP's $30 Billion Blowout (Investigative Documentary) | Real Stories

[@deby5983]

BP is losing millions!! Jeez, what about the environment and the critters that roam it? All about $$. Not about the 11 lives lost, the lives damaged. Just about the stocks. So sad

[@twistedpipes04]

Yeah, no kidding! As small children we learn, if you make a mistake: apologize, fix it, and do better. All this documentary is, is a whine fest for bp

[@markheithorn3905]

Oohh... BPs stock ...Oh no..BP s glorious 100 Year history. Oh.. here comes another Corporate saviour. I feel much better now that BP has made investors feel more comfortable. 🙃

[@Carlos-be2kc]

The company I worked for was working with bp at the time and and our company took a big hit because of their reputation even though we had a good clean record

[@alhiddell6810]

oh shutup with your tedious leftist baloney cliches

[@usernotfound-ue7ld]

Stop driving your car cut the heat and AC off to your house don't take public transportation don't even think about using any type of rubber or plastic I guess you know since the power company can't run without it fleet of vehicles we will all lose power. Or we can have oil and have all those things and I'm not pro oil by any means but unfortunately right now we really have no other choices. Solar requires vehicles to maintain them which require oil to run windmills require oil for lubrication plus all for the vehicles to maintain them. We are kind of on a catch-22

[@SurelyYewJest]

Can't say I really take the former Shell Oil president seriously when he's talking about the importance of a competitor maintaining their stuff for the good of the environment and people over investors, and the impact BP had on the **industry's** reputation. The oil industry already had a bad rep, BP just literally kept that fire burning.

[@ji30019hq]

Why's that? You ever work for Shell? I had a few jobs with them when I was working in Alberta, and they were the most safety-conscious ones I worked for. I know things are very different in The States, though, as far as safety goes in the oil patch. They definitely try, though, at least at some points in the process.

[@aidannewton]

hilarious how no one takes ownership of the mistake but pass the buck to everyone else throughout the entire documentary.

[@MrDlt123]

@fred brant Thanks for proving Aidan's point, dumbass.

[@mephistounderwood4917]

Standard BP operating procedure.

[@karendegenerous600]

Life With Aiden. It's the same with many big companies and EVERYTHING involved with the British government IE National Health Service, Councils and if course the Conservative government itself. BUT not something I would ever refer to as hilarious, but there is a pattern, one which is very usual, notice the main greedy & troublemaking people involved here, 2 Tonys, born as Anthonys, and a John, one very nonchalantly cutting corners there, Numerologically speaking ALL the number one (A,J,S), which all have no relation to people, only with dirty money and dirty deals, and as you are one of them, that's why you find it hilarious, and I find it repulsive and positively inhumane.

[@kinte1870]

It was the workers that did the shotty work. Management can say what they want but safety is the responsibility of the individuals doing the work.

[@harrietharlow9929]

@@mephistounderwood4917 Pretty much every other oil company.

[@ScotsmaninUtah]

prior to the disaster BP's safety record was appalling and OSHA statistics show BP ran up 760 "egregious, willful" safety violations, while Sunoco and Conoco-Phillips each had eight, Citgo had two and Exxon had one comparable citation. BP paid out over 370 million in fines alone just to avoid prosecution... and the CEO said the Company was running well :o

[@coltentackett892]

they left that part out!

[@bobbybobby3232]

The new movie deep sea horizon shows that BP executives were liable for the oil spill. The oil rig was losing millions each day, and the BP executives wanted to start drilling without completing and fixing all the failed maintenance. Imagine if you were flying on a commercial airplane and the pilots didn't properly inspect the airplane and also saw several maintenance problems, but decided to fly the plane any way. That is a disaster waiting to happen.

[@Callusny]

Millions each day? Where did you get those stats?

[@TungstenCarbideProjectile]

its actually Halliburton who failed to design an effective concrete mix. and then covered up the concrete integrity tests only passing it the day of by cheating the test. its halliburton who is at fault

[@Callusny]

Yes they messed up but BP had to test the concrete mix and they got anomaly in pressure readings and did nothing to prevent the accident so they're both at fault.

[@jacques-d.piguet3116]

At the end, everybody using oil is at fault! The more we need oil, the more we need to take risks... I'm sure such accident will happen again!

[@Callusny]

It's going to be a very long time before we stop using oil unfortunately. 10 superships that are used for transporting oil produce same amount of CO2 as all the cars in the world. So if we somehow could transform those ships to use clean renewable energy as fuel, we would be on a good path.

[@carrie_the_recruiter]

The executives of BP at the time should be in jail 100%. They did not promote a safety culture whatsoever, ignored warning signs, and it's absolutely DEPLORABLE to me that the CEO doesn't even talk about the human life lost in this accident.

[@paulstandaert2042]

While working for my various employers over the years, there has been NUMEROUS times where I brought up various concerns about processes and procedures and the resulting negative consequences and was just blown off or they told me that my attitude was negative. Many times, they were issues that were causing a loss of profit which could be remedied quite easily. I don't believe it to all be due to corporate greed--it is often a case of nobody giving a rip.

[@brianallison1913]

Maybe a little but it was probably more so that you were pulling the rug back that they swept all the dirt under and ultimately the higher ups tend to be threatened when someone uses common sense. Their way of dealing with it is to ignore you or wait a specific amount of time and implement your idea but claiming it as their own.

[@ChessForGiants]

i live in st augustine florida and ever since this happened almost none goes to BP gas stations. There's a shell and a BP across from each other just out of my neighborhood and i don't think Ive ever seen a florida plate at the BP.

[@josephwallace8875]

Do you go to Amoco? IF YOU DO YOURE GOING TO BP. OH ARCO TOO. BP OWNS MORE THAN YOU THINK. BUT THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF OUR GOVT. NOT GONNA TELL YOU THAT.

[@pjmbidge632000]

They only briefly mention that Amoco and BP are the same company, but continually blame BP, as a UK company, when in truth it's American.

[@Dougie1969]

And that matters because???

[@hivaladeen4892]

Douglas young mate he just explained it to u - uk are being blamed by America for an American company? Comprendo?

[@simonjohnston9488]

@@hivaladeen4892 BP bought Amoco. BP is a British company. BP have a really, really poor safety history, with regards spills and work place safety.

[@birdcage2425]

@@simonjohnston9488 True, bad downstream record too at refineries and chemical plants.

[@TheDeanna1372]

BP is a British company that bought out an American company its headquarters is in London still a British company educate yourself

[@daljames2545]

It dont matter who the CEO was at the time of the spill. The CEO will be the first to go, so the company has someone to put blame on. The moment the blow out happened, his days was numbered. BP just waited for the right time, so it would have the most impact on national media.

[@ken15cia]

A scapegoat..

[@BKvidz]

This should teach everyone to never cut corners.

[@MrDlt123]

When corners are cut and something goes wrong, the rich never really pay the price for it. Poor people in the Gulf and consumers at large pay for it. Tony Hayward is again the CEO of a multi-billion$ company and the execs of the companies who caused the economic crisis of 2008 avoided jail and made the taxpayers pay for it. Crap ALWAYS rolls downhill.

[@karendegenerous600]

BK. Are you old enough to be on here?? Most people over the age of 20 know already, and don't, rude boy!!!!

[@EverywhereAndNowhere]

Whenever there's a lot of $ involved, people don't do the right things for the right reason. They do it for the right price.

[@BKvidz]

@@EverywhereAndNowhere agreed it’s all about money in the end but that’s not how it should be

[@jimmyj100]

‘Should’, but it won’t

[@jubjub2743]

I don't trust people who talk with a permanent smile/smirk

[@inferno0020]

like your Master Trump?

[@charlesaderholt8539]

# Jub Jub...... mAsTeR??!!??!!??!! WTF

[@kingjames4886]

like every US president since bush?

[@moneygrip4464]

Kinda like real estate agents....

[@nick9602]

inferno0020 Lmao when does trump ever smile.....??????

[@88pubic]

I hate to burst the Americans bubble here, But BP was at the time and still is an a Amercian owned company... It was brought over in the late 80’s...

[@bigpicturethinking5620]

88pubic facts don’t matter when a juicy tag line can divert attention.

[@Cris-td4wi]

88pubic Ok Brit

[@pophamlarry]

They're in bed with politicians and Halliburton. They control the cost of oil and intentionally create these "accidents" .... it's done on purpose.....

[@keithglimmer4505]

Are you suggesting the deepwater horizon explosion and aftermath was a deliberate act?

[@ashatteberry2127]

Yeah they really should of considered a name change..

[@illbuyourniknak]

In the words of South Park: "Sorry........."

[@Halfshanks]

"We're sooooorrrrrrrryyy"

[@skreign]

*rubs nipples*

[@thegutlessleadingthecluele7810]

@AHR 12 Trump fix that problem dude it a mess all over!

[@thegutlessleadingthecluele7810]

@AHR 12 Q will fix that LUL i know sry my english not.... lets leafe it like a bad Joke went wrong. ( oder lerne Deutsch )

[@chrIstoPherFarmer77]

Facts lol surprised it hasn't changed to DP yet, since they dont give 2 fucks

[@deusvultpictures6550]

I wish 16 year old me got some BP shares just after the accident I’d be rich now

[@OAleathaO]

Not if you had bought stock on the American stock exchange. Their lowest price during this incident was around $29 and even today (12/28/19) hovers around the $37 mark. Not exactly a windfall unless you bought alot of stock. I bought around 500 shares in 2010 when their price dropped to $29 and if I were to sell those shares today the gross return would only be around $4000. After capital gains taxes it would be significantly lower.

[@Thor-Orion]

@@OAleathaO how are the dividends though?

[@OAleathaO]

@@Thor-Orion The past 3 quarters have been horrible at $.031/share. But looking over the past 2 years or so of my statements, BP has paid a dividend ranging from $.0525/share to $0.62/share. This is paid per quarter obviously.

[@pastelskies8466]

@@OAleathaO he'd be better off to invest in Wesson oil. lol

[@leayyy]

No wonder people didn't like him... he looks like Piers Morgan.

[@ellmonroe3664]

Haha yes he does look like that odious little Man.

[@mrmartin553]

Ok and what is wrong with that?

[@johncamp7679]

wait!! Its not him??!!!

[@kamillaiqbal6521]

Hes wayyyyy sexier than piers

[@dmb8690]

@@mrmartin553 douchebag

[@sus.gaming7317]

this documentary is wonderful, love falling asleep to this utter bs of government and greed.

[@timsharkey6822]

What happened was terrible, yes bp are ultimately responsible, but bp is a private company, not anything to do with the British people. I think before demanding the heads of all British people and bp themselves, everyone should have a look at the corruption and pollution that many American oil companies and other global oil companies have left in Africa and elsewhere in the world, as well as the damage that fracking is causing. When you point the finger at someone else, there are always 3 of your fingers pointing right back at you.

[@Gav_Ireland]

Tim Sharkey its a public company duhhhh

[@Bulskee]

Big G it was a private company from 1987

[@patrickbenja34]

The majority of BP is still owned by the British Government to this day

[@ACE-xv6sh]

@@patrickbenja34 60% American and 40% British, you missed math day.

[@simonjohnston9488]

Who demanded the heads of all British people? Or even one? As for your bizarre whataboutism, oh sure: there are other murderers out there, so don't you dare try to hold that particular one accountable because I share his birthplace! Quite a fantasy society you've decided to build yourself.

[@PavesGarage]

Try cramming more adds into the video

[@giantrobot5804]

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[@tcgglobalsecurityconsultin8883]

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[@jgchalmers]

@@tcgglobalsecurityconsultin8883 two words. ad blocker

[@tcgglobalsecurityconsultin8883]

@@jgchalmers why do I care? I already made it abundantly clear I don't have issues with ads as I pay for the service.

[@stefanpigford6891]

HAHAHAHA 😎 LMFAO gahahaga 💝 ♥️

[@kingjames4886]

crazy how he focuses so much on the environment and the golf and doesn't even mention the 26 people that died...

[@33nadroj]

Uhhh...because the oil spill was the MUCH bigger problem

[@kingjames4886]

@@33nadroj oh? can you filter human lives out of water?

[@33nadroj]

@@kingjames4886 I meant that those people are already dead and it's not like it's his fault anyway. Plus he has to try and help solve the active problem of the oil spill

[@cristiancasarrubias1222]

We’re talking about an environmental crisis. I understand that we must be sympathetic about the dead but the oil spillage was the big picture here. R.I.P to all those that died during this disaster.

[@tiberiusalexander6339]

@@kingjames4886 Turns out you can't filter the oil out of water either... you can spray it with "dispersal fluid", but that basically just breaks it into small droplets, all of which are still sitting at the bottom of the ocean. They will affect countless millions of plants and animals, and every branch of the food chain. Which means the spill, long term, will be responsible for disease and death among people who eat food from the Gulf or swim in its waters. Cancer rates will continue to be higher along the gulf coast after this disaster, especially among children. Those who depended on the gulf waters for their business, whether they run a hotel on the beach or a shrimp boat, have experienced financial ruin. The loss of those people was a tragedy but the film doesn't even really dwell on them, and it doesn't address the environmental impact at all.

[@conorstapleton3183]

Buhuhu a guy who makes more in a month, than the average guy makes in a lifetime, had some tough days. Let me play a sad song, for him, on my tiny fiddle.

[@neil6839]

I know I feel just as bad for him as I do for the poor struggling royals. Meghan and Harry

[@conorstapleton3183]

@@neil6839 *tiny fiddle solo intensifies*

[@georgeehmke3283]

Point... industrial accidents are usually the result of multiple failing events. Hate to have to say it, but I've worked on drilling rigs for 45 years and it has been my observations that many men think they are smarter than the safety officers and the engineers. Corners often cut and dire risks taken.

[@Speedline3601]

BP presents Try Finding Nemo Now!

[@GuyRWood]

Ha, ha, sick dude 😂.

[@joestone948]

Eventually he'll be found,as a fossil.

[@palladium607]

Lmaooooo 🤣 🤣👌

[@djefr]

😬

[@vickiebunch5703]

That would be real funny of it weren't true!😭

[@tamarcanady5333]

What in the world? 10 minutes in and I can no longer pretend this isn’t a bp apologist film. First clue: calling offshore drilling “exploration.”

[@calvinrenfrow3072]

If that was the case, it back fired HARD! I watched this awhile ago and ever since than every time I see anything with BP on it, it disgusts me. I honestly thought it was being pretty hard on BP but giving the BP executives atleast a chance to say their 2 cents.

[@DennisGr]

it is way worse not to elaborate on how the blowout happened and how the systems that should have stopped the catastrophe failed due to what can only be described as gross negligence on the side of BP. instead of opting for a true deadman switch they went with multiple redundant systems to close the blind-shear ram, some of which were wired faulty or had empty 9v block batteries, yes 9v block batteries were used in the blowout prevention system. they also completely forgot to think about the fact that the drill would buckle under the immense pressure making the blind-shear ram useless in the first place.

[@Synergy7Studios]

There is an entire field of study related to finding and characterizing oil fields. It's extremely complex. Exploration is the industry name for tasks related to finding and characterizing fields. It's very fitting. It literally is underground exploration, we just can't use traditional methods like flying, driving, or sailing around the place because it's deep underground. Lots of complex sensors and remote drilling equipment is used. Exploration is not the term for drilling for oil once you know where it is.

[@brianlenehan9055]

@David Bryant no it's not exploration it's an oil well..........idiot.

[@brianlenehan9055]

@David Bryant so are you saying that what i said is not true? Are you an apologist for those destroyers, those lying worshippers of money and power. You say i know little about the industry, well such as? Tell me something.

[@oldtimer7635]

Hayward: "What´s the big deal". There it is, in a nutshell!

[@celticlofts]

BP's crisis management team was made up of the janitor, the tea lady and the creepy guy who works on the computers. "We take safety at BP very seriously" said Andrew Hayes, who can't be named for legal reasons...

[@Anjelolara1917]

Anjelo lara ray king

[@daveb5041]

*This whole video is about BP's stock price and ignores all who lost their livelihoods and oil that corexit sunk to the bottom where it will slowly diffuse into the water killing everything much like soap and oil in water. Corexit makes oil water soluble and just sinks it , it doesn't clean or make it go away. Its still there to this day hundreds of square miles polluted forever* .

[@BigBlueJake]

Dave B - The fishermen and shrimpers, and the oil rig workers are the focus of other documentaries. I'd be curious to see a docu about the Corexit.

[@רעיהאלמקייס]

Studies have so far indicated that the dispersant is toxic to marine life.[11] Corexit has been shown to exert a synergistic effect when mixed with oil, increasing its toxicity.[ 😯🙁

[@tiberiusalexander6339]

Thanks for mentioning the dispersal fluid Corexit, using this horrifying stuff is just as bad as spilling the oil in the first place. Amazing that this "documentary" completely ignores any of the actual ramifications on real people, instead we hear about the share price and how BP had zero liquidity for a week. Absolutely no perspective from the people who made this, there is more relevant information in your short post than in this whole video

[@JoostMehrtens]

34:55 "....not least I would have still been the CEO of BP..." wow, well that statement says a lot. Comjng from the same book as "I want my life back".

[@JoostMehrtens]

Day 57: Bob Dudley: " ...that is when we realised the magnitude of the event..." Wow within 2 months.

[@derpinbird1180]

That's when they felt the economic magnitude, the only thing they cared about sadly

[@williamcramer3596]

This happened when I was a senior in high school. I remember not buying gas anymore at a BP gas station in protest and disgust of BP.

[@eginteractive]

Yeah, you sure taught them a lesson.

[@Taketimeout3]

He played his part perfectly.

[@allesklar286]

Seems that Lord Brown buggered off leaving the poison chalice to his successor. No comments from him about any of this

[@DemonBoy3223]

"BP celebrates DH's 7 years being accident-free!" *Several hours later* "Explosion rocks Deepwater Horizon rig! 11 feared dead" *Two days later* "Oil and gases spewing out of drilling well into gulf ocean"

[@filipgolonka3758]

Gulf ocean😂

[@thegreatafrican3367]

Seems like a coincidence

[@OAleathaO]

All this talk about BP's stock price. Their lowest stock price was $29.35 on 7/2/2010 from a high of $77.78 on 10/26/2007. But consider that from 10/26/07 they were already heading down in price and the 2008 "crash" had more of an effect on them than this incident. Half a year after 7/2/10 they were back up to $45/share and even today (12/28/19) they are around $37/share. Hardly a reason to consider that BP was "going to go under." Sheesh.

[@stillperfectgenerations5852]

Great, a BP apologist denying any real responsibility. What else could I expect from Big Business...

[@3zy165]

Dr Breen BP were the ones who ignored the warnings from the actual crew of the Deepwater Horizon. That rig was 41 days behind schedule and the company were running out of money so they cut multiple corners in order to begin drilling again. They sent away a majority of the crew before doing safety checks on the rig and drilling pipes and didn’t make sure that there was enough cement on the ocean floor to stop pressure building up. They didn’t do that which allowed the pressure to build up around the pipes leading to high mud pressure. This then led to the blowout. BP are the ones that were foolish enough to think they could cut corners to get what they wanted. They risked the lives of 126 men that day and killed 11 of them. They SHOULD have been charged with manslaughter like they were originally arrested for. You cannot just sit there and say BP is not at fault here because they were Yes the government allowed drilling to continue but they didn’t cut corners in order to get there. That was all BP

[@gabrielpontual9290]

Good god, that toxic corporative culture and language always finds a way to florish and diminish the problems, doesn't it?

[@harrietharlow9929]

Always. The name of the game at most corporations is CYA, no matter how many people get hurt. If these companies cannot or will not maintain safety of its own free will, then there needs to be governmental oversight. It's sickening how much BS oil companies get away with.

[@deanhoward4142]

Oil has always been about money, and not so much politics.

[@seansteryu7398]

When you got money, you can meddle with politics.

[@wepntech]

same can be said of any industry.

[@andrejohnson1488]

Very informative indeed.

[@darrellterry7209]

I worked off shore when I was younger and I must ask why our government capped off Wells while allowing foreign countries to drill off our coast . Then I grew up and learned that it's much cheaper to allow them to drill and refine it in China and ship it back .If anyone drills in the gulf it should only be us.

[@Otaku155]

How much money is BP having to divert to Union issues that could be better spent on Maintenance? Also, I love how everyone is blaming BP for the Horizon explosion when in reality it was TransOcean's rig, TransOcean's crew, TransOcean's overall management.

[@bobporterNFLD]

The only seemingly credible person in this, was the one who took the fall.

[@chrismueller5335]

Yeah i was suprised tbh. I usually am really sceptical of CEO's and the like, but this guy? That guy i believed

[@metalgearsolidsnake6978]

looks the same for me..... all of a sudden the politicans turn 360 degree...... what a joke!

[@bobporterNFLD]

@Trump Grass And President CHUMP became the head of the NY MOB

[@JohnB-2021]

A British company sold off in the 80's Top 5 investors were American 11 American men died American supervisor Donald J. Vidrine & BP rig supervisor Bob Kaluza were prosecuted, not the British, only the BP company in name. I don't have a list of all the survivors, but wonder how many Brits actually caused this disaster? Wow, even Obama quoted British Petroleum, yet it seems to me the workers and supervisors were all American. I saw an American standing on the Union Jack, he should do some research, he would find it was a terrible disaster caused by American workers.

[@vincentd.h.7280]

Agreed, typical american nationalistic reaction. Very annoying. Same goes for patent lawsuits against foreign companies

[@justinwallace390]

We all have to use oil. We all like money. Just have some responsibility in mining.

[@JohnSmith-yr6kh]

Are there any companies who accept accountability at all when something bad happens?

[@JoostMehrtens]

44:33 " ....this crisis didn't end..." really? A few months feels like that?

[@jenrichardson1941]

I can't get past a minute because the quality of sound is that of a 90's big box TV with the red/white/yellow wires in the wrong slots

[@Nommadd75]

Except for the 'cameos' of king barry, I liked this.

[@ghostoftheblueteletubby7790]

BP should be ashamed of what they put Mark Walberg & his crew threw

[@shankar4330]

Through*

[@paystarbuzzy]

And would it kill ya to throw on a period at the end?

[@sheldonplate6182]

Buzz Garrison I

[@paystarbuzzy]

@@sheldonplate6182 this assault upon Mother Nature was one of the monumental screwups that led up to the mess we have now. Thanks for coaxing me back here with your enigmatic one word communique'.

[@msgsgt]

He didn't really do anything wrong personally. Wasn't the Horizon the most advanced rig? But Just as in the military you volunteer to give your life if need be in the line of duty, a CEO much like a captain must go down with the ship.

[@mikewillis44]

I doubt whether it was bake beans for Christmas with this guy

[@SortaProfessional89]

In 2020 this still infuriates me.

[@mandoggydogg2262]

A lesson to all up and coming corporate executives, its never your fault so there's never any onus on you to accept responsibility.

[@viktoriacuellar2147]

They chose to lead, run, oversee, and be the face of a company. They are responsible for leading, running, and overseeing everything that the company does. If they fail to do that like in this case they are the ones who did that to themselves and their company, it is their fault and they do need to own up to it.

[@sorrymusic6586]

Sounds like most wammen in general.

[@SporkPlays212]

I would like to thank BP for heroically lubricating the ocean

[@bigpicturethinking5620]

Please Stop it’s a dirty job but someone’s got to do it.

[@rhyzen101]

LOL....

[@psttech4290]

or thank the US company that owned the rig, hmm

[@maozedong981]

Aaahaahaahahahahaahahahahahahahahahaahahaaa.. Just pissed in my pants.. Thank you for made my day 😂

[@seaghan6412]

Northern marine, bp regardless do not have clean hands

[@tiberiusalexander6339]

It is astonishing to me that this video is billed as an "investigative documentary" when all they did was compile other people's footage and journalism on top of a few interviews. This video focuses squarely on Tony Hayward and the fate of BP; the continuing ecological crisis in the gulf, long after the well was closed, is literally not even addressed once in the whole film. The environmental impact of the disaster is only explained in terms of how it hurt the company, with absolutely zero discussion of how the company and government cleaned up the oil that spilled (spoiler alert: they didn't). Worst of all, the chief critic of BP given voice in the film is not an environmentalist, politician, or any of the millions of locals in the gulf whose lives and livelihoods were directly impacted by this disaster. Instead they got the CEO of a rival company - responsible for an enormous ecological disaster of their own!! - to gleefully bash Tony Hayward's PR blunders. Terrible video.

[@Vagabondo-fs6qu]

I heard the following statement from a person high up on another Oil Exploration Company; how high, how about second highest, and the statement was "there but for the grace of god goes our company". He said it was something just waiting to happen to any of the companies in oil exploration.

[@justjonow4553]

Greed over lifes and environment

[@cardboardboxification]

Trev DoubleU the oil companies are just filling a niche in the market... The greed are the people who buy cars, clothes , plastic, nylon, food they don’t grow themselves , china product transported around the world, the list is endless ... All hail the oil gods !!!!

[@gdwnet]

of course but at what cost to the safety of the public and the environment? At what point should we say "Enough".

[@KPX-nl4nt]

mikemoair Who are you arguing with? I don’t recall BrandNew Jo saying that governments are not greedy. Trying to deflect the “greedy” argument away from BP and towards government doesn’t justify BP’s actions in the least.

[@roccosiffredi6427]

The great human failure . Greed

[@farenhite4329]

@@cardboardboxification Ah yes, it is my fault for driving a car. I support spilling oil into the environment according to your logic.

[@ratatataraxia]

All these years later you gotta feel a little bad for the guy, people can be so viscous when they need someone to blame.

[@ashatteberry2127]

It always starts at the top. Not sure how long he was CEO but he had to know of the problems, there is no way he didnt.

[@Cheyennedanielle-k2t]

He said in his testimony that no one told him.

[@tomatoisnotafruit5670]

@@ashatteberry2127 not necessarily, a CEO might not even know about maintenance problems or what ever else is going on one of their dozen rigs. There is a hierarchy and lots of bosses in charge of each rig, they are the ones who know the problems and they can easily ignore them and hide them.

[@markymark6400]

Feel bad for the man He didn’t handle everything well but it was a tragic event and he’s only human. To blame him completely was a huge scapegoat for the rest of the men also making millions of dollars a year who just didn’t have to face the brute force of the media and legal force. He doesn’t alone run the entire company he should’ve been held accountable but also the entirety of the decision makers running the company

[@Aussiematee]

Best documentary to fall asleep too

[@curtisparsons4473]

Thing that annoys me about this documentary is the fact that they forgot about the 11 people that died on that rig.

[@ypraisethesun4431]

Curtis Parsons right and now in 2018 we are being pushed to do offshore drilling on NC coasts. Like no let's not risk lives for outdated jobs it is time to progress not regress

[@bigpicturethinking5620]

No they were clearly mentioned.

[@charlestatum2660]

Curtis Parsons that would be admitting wrong doing .

[@JacobFrey]

Didn't watch the whole thing, did ya, Curtis?

[@Syclone0044]

lol it's mentioned literally in the first 0:45 seconds!

[@brianlenehan9055]

BP routinely skipped the maintenance of the safety equipment because they had to shut the well down to do it and that was too expensive, then dig the deepest well ever.

[@TheBandit7613]

I don't like the term "big oil" Oil is very costly to extract. Only a large company can finance those projects.

[@simonjohnston9488]

Interesting priority.

[@elizabethclover4]

@@simonjohnston9488 😆

[@hansschonig2472]

Tony did what any other CEO would have done

[@emh8072]

Anyone notice the Indian in the clouds looking at the rig @13.10

[@johnmerrifield4391]

Look at that scene at 13:11. I would love to have that as a poster.

[@slappinshepple]

Obama turned this disaster into a punch line, instead of fighting the problem with bp, there regulations an failure to inspect these oil rigs was part of the problem as well. So blame wasent just on those companys but also on the government. Obama did a good job at pointing the finger and keeping the public from realising the government was also to blame.

[@shawnjohn602]

They had stocks he was about the push for money to..

[@coryce258]

It's always Obama. You sound like trump

[@1950Chimaera]

@@coryce258 TDS...Obama was a terrible POTUS, but Biden will be FAR worse.

[@heathermetz6576]

25:51 "Increase safe and reliable operations" + more cost-cutting = $30 Billion Blowout! 47:58 "BP was to spread it's $20 Billion compensation, over 4 years!"

[@kaptain1477]

It was cheaper to invest in safety for your company it seems.

[@wepntech]

yup, something that seems to get on the back burner so to say by a lot of businesses. And I mean safety not BS annoyances.

[@thefitz263]

Investing in safety effects the bottom line there by less dividends and bonuses. The BP guy said it multiple times manage risk. Which means what is the percentage of the unthinkable happening…oh not likely we will have a blowout??? Drill bitches….Drrrriiiiilllllllllll!

[@TinkerManMick]

Looks like they are making all that money back and more with the price of fuel now days..

[@shrub9558]

When you put an ad every 5 minutes of video you're inviting dislikes..

[@nikthe16th74]

You can always use an ad-block extention for your browser.

[@oldschoolman1444]

Scroll to the end and hit replay, no more adds!

[@tlc5343]

@@oldschoolman1444 thank you

[@CoreyIsTheName]

@@oldschoolman1444 or, you know, get an ad-blocker

[@pierredoe6936]

1:18 "BP after all is in the business to make money, not to satisfy public concerns." It should be amazing how incredibly honest corporations can be without any uproar from the people of the world. the uproar rarely comes, I believe, because investors/shareholders are you and your neighbors, not just rich and very rich people. And even the person with just ten shares doesn't want to see his shares become a loss so that he will support the corporate state of things, no matter how much it actually spoils his life. That said, accidents like this are inevitable because corporations get to a point where, to grow profits, you have to make cuts and cuts eventually lead to accidents. This one was a "big deal" only because it concerned the USA, loudest country in the world. And with an election coming, it just couldn't be swept under the rug. Does anyone remember the Bhopal accident? The number of deaths there vary wildly depending on the reporting agency/media/whatever but are in the thousands. Of course, thousands of indians (from India), who cares? In Bhopal, just as we've just seen in this documentary (or snow job as it should be properly called), they tried to make it sound like it was not a US corporation but an Indian one. The CEO of the mother corporation was safely (and very comfortably, no doubt) living in the US which dismissed the suits against him, sent them (the suits) back to India where he never set foot again (reminds me a bit of Kissinger) and where a handful of Indian nationals where sentenced to a ridiculous 2 year sentence which they never even did. Corporations should be outlawed. Barring that, there should be a true international court with the power to go pluck any and all indicted people wherever they are hiding. Of course, such a court would be corrupted right away by the corporations and would in fact be useless.

[@DirtMcGert29054]

I felt sorry for Tony until he said “ I was with my son from midnight to six am ... us time “

[@tommyhyatt5157]

Yeah. Then i thought about the man who's son was killed in the explosion

[@Cheyennedanielle-k2t]

He also cheated on his wife with a woman in the USA. There he goes, ruining the ocean and his marriage. Lol.

[@scottfawcus9231]

I know a fella that worked on the rigs out there at that time, he said the safety culture is all fake - they talk safety and come down hard on minor infringements and at the same time, critical risks are simply glossed over because of the potential for losing profits. He said that after this event, the seriously dangerous methods of running the rig just carried on like nothing happened while the workers who did make mistakes were dealt with harshly even though most events were not that serious while the many practices that led up to the cause of this disaster went unchallenged and defended with hideous lies bullshit misinterpretation cohesion fear - basically any tactic that would keep it financially lucrative.

[@crustycobs2669]

They tried to save a few million by shortcuts to safety measures specified, and ended up spending over 18 billion in cleanup, fines, and individual settlements. And the oil is still on the bottom. They had a live camera on the oil spewing out, horribly disgusting industry.

[@evab.6240]

Mm. I hope you don't drive a car.

[@michaels8638]

He actually says ‘ now we will have checks and balances’ bit late, this is an admitted failure, which makes it even more amazing they survived as a business. too big to lose comes to mind, the right people would have lost too much money so it was seen to cut the company some slack so the investors don’t lose too much money.

[@martiwoodchip4518]

One thing that I really do not understand is why in the fuck is America allowing other countries companies to drill in our waters?

[@bobbybobby3232]

Very easy answer: American people are hungry for oil.

[@rolfhu8320]

American is a country with LOW safety standards, just MONEY counts.Most people remain stupid because they watch only American news stations.And from them, they get mostly unaccurate information, seldom based on facts.

[@swingmanic]

As a Brit myself maybe you should be asking about all the U.S companies operating out in the North Sea...Crude oil comes from the same pot and all these oil companies piss in that self same pot!..What this documentary failed to tell everyone is that BP was and still is a major supplier of oil to the U.S military...As of late 2016 a subsidiary of BP has won a one-year, $559 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply fuel products to the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force..The Obama administration would have been aware of BP being a major supplier, but they just hoodwinked the public as part its PR exercise to make British Petroleum (BP P.L.C.) look bad.

[@swingmanic]

So we can supply your wonderful military with oil enabling them to illegally invade more countries. (For oil)

[@wonka4]

pff

[@dannyhopkins8306]

the b.p disaster was another true example of people getting in a hurry and trying to cut corners and look what it cost, I am not talking money I am talking lives and what it did to the environment I worked offshore for 10 year's and from experience you don't cut corners

[@paulprutzman6529]

BP sent the concrete team off without testing the plugs. Also, they placed only 2, not 3 as Transocean and Halliburton wanted. THAT lays the blame SOLELY on BP.

[@7071t6]

@ the 8:37 mark LOL churchill was using his fob key to lock the horse drawn carriage, LMFAO. :)

[@rs3addict201]

Yano what he is an honest man who clearly holds what happened as a travasty he didnt cause the accident i forgive you tony 👍

[@delayeddeloy7761]

who?

[@okeybuckeye524]

We have a thing in the US called the 5th amendment he exercised that right as an incorporated entity allowed all the rights of a natural born citizen. The PR was bad but it was exaserbated by politics especially considering the previous admin close relationship with the energy sector.

[@XantheFIN]

BP Revenue: US$ 303.73 billion (2018) - So this 30 Billions was pocket money just. Never mind.

[@mickeypopa]

Revenue != profit. Revenue of a company can be $300 billion but its obligations and bills can be $290 billion, leaving profit of only $10 billion. Might want to learn the difference before you start tossing out numbers you don't understand.

[@MakerInMotion]

8:18 That guy is exactly what I picture a 1908 oil man would look like.

[@opsecmusic3947]

At 19.24 its nice to see the Russians watching over the new deal. R.I.P the crew that passed. My friend lost this Dad in piper alpha rig disaster.

[@bluecollar58]

Did the guy that destroyed the Blow out preventer by running the bit with the preventer engaged or the engineer that gave the all clear after seeing large parts of the seal come out of the hole live ?

[@Joseph-qb1es]

Woooowwwww 2010 was almost 10 years ago 🥺

[@paulstandaert2042]

It is like Boeing's issues right now. SOMEBODY knew that there was a major issue with relying on data from just a single AOA sensor which is prone to failure and told someone about it. The cost to fix the issue by accepting data from the other AOA sensor for redundancy would have been quite negligible. But some little guy in the department staffing meeting tried bringing it up and was just talked over.

[@markeone]

Until a few months before the disaster, it had been US law to have two Blowout Protection Values. The US government changed the law and ultimately, caused this problem. Had there been two BPV, no problem. But it was easier to blame BP again....

[@wepntech]

politics always has a part to play.

[@rancosteel]

The biggest problem for the company was they didn't have a contingency plan in the event that a BOP would fail to shear a well.

[@tammiestacy9575]

it's still dangerous by this day

[@davidmurphy5405]

As a rescue team member I can tell you...you start looking at people as future grill roast or they look like someone you are trying to forget. It's very traumatic dealing with the most unnecessary of stupid things that happen. My.mom cited the big train wreck and the engineer was smoking pot.... For instance ....while waving bag at me she found in my jeans I swore to my mother I would never smoke pot and drive a train . And I have kept that promise to this day.

[@slobodangrasic5649]

It is all about corporate greed whose drivers are rotten people like John Browne, Tony Hayward, Bob Dudley etc. In this case te origin of evil was John Browne.

[@bdub78dub90]

Safety , safety , safety......... Until it impedes profits then safety goes out the window. Straight from the Bakken.

[@florianwolf9380]

Admittedly Tony Hayward made some stupid mistakes, but in this disaster he could have done whatever he wanted & fail. The hatred & anger of the American people first focussed on BP, then on him personally, and like he admitted as CEO he had to take the chop. Now ‘all is well again’ (cynicism off), an American runs the company, and guess who is still BPs main customer ? America ? While this is the way of the world today I still hate these hypocrites - being the largest consumer of oil, at the same time bashing the suppliers of it if things go wrong.

[@ackmino]

That's the truth. Americans generally see things the way they want to see it.

[@judsonsnell]

Jesus, even in retrospect their CEO has the gall to say "if we'd plugged it sooner, I'd still be the CEO". That's a man who needs media training.

[@MrTyrelle]

Deep water horizon was a great movie

[@InfiniteNaos]

“You were going to leave in a couple years anyway, what’s the big deal?” Interesting.

[@robertrocha7216]

Almost 1 decade ago, wow!

[@nasreenahmed4524]

Hi

[@187mrsmith]

All because you wanted to cut corners to try to make up for expenses and lost time did you end up making any of those expenses and lost time back know you actually ended up losing more money and more time Sometimes a shortcut is really the Long way home

[@Torahboy1]

More adverts per-lease!

[@STYLESBYLIFEBEAUTYNMORE]

The dad not being able to bury his son Shattered