THUNDER HORSE PLATFORM, Gulf of Mexico — The day after massive Hurricane Dennis churned through the Gulf of Mexico in July 2005, a commercial vessel traveling past BP PLC’s hulking Thunder Horse oil platform radioed the bad news to its owner: The platform’s top deck was listing into the water.

Lang flew in a team of experts in subsea oil production, welding and metallurgy from around the world to Houston to determine the cause of the weld failures. "We are building on our world-class position, upgrading the resources at our fields through technology, productivity and exploration success," Bernard Looney, BP's chief executive for production and exploration, said in a statement.Just northeast of Thunder Horse, BP also announced new discoveries at fields near its Na Kika platform.BP says it plans to develop reservoirs at its Manuel prospect, where Shell holds a 50 percent stake. At that depth, oil will gush from the drill pipes at a temperature of 275 degrees Fahrenheit, under a metal-crunching 17,400 pounds per square inch of pressure. Thunder Horse PDQ is a BP plc and ExxonMobil joint venture semi-submersible oil platform on location over the Mississippi Canyon Thunder Horse oil field (Block 778/822), in deepwater Gulf of Mexico, 150 miles (240 km) southeast of New Orleans, moored in waters of 1,840 metres (6,040 ft). On the first helicopter flight in, they agreed to work together, with McDaniel focusing mainly on the platform’s operations and Bond zeroing in on the bottom of the ocean. Inspection of other welds in the subsea equipment turned up even more cracks. Thunder Horse Platform. BP says it once would have taken a year to analyze the Thunder Horse data, but it now takes just weeks. Perhaps a coupling on a pumping station wasn’t properly tightened. But that number dropped below full replacement in 2004 and 2005 before climbing above the break-even line again last year, to 113 percent.

As Thunder Horse’s top deck tilted toward the water, ballast pipes that normally pump water out began taking water in. The "PDQ" identifies the platform as being a Production and oil Drilling facility with crew … If the pipes stress or twist too much, they might weaken and perhaps spring a leak one day, resulting in disaster. The deep Gulf of Mexico is challenging in its own right. After the devastating successive storms, Katrina and Rita, came through, the workers stayed off the platforms while trying to help their colleagues piece their lives back together.

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Nearly 3 million pounds of pipe stretched from the drill rig to the bottom of the hole. BP’s corporate brass told the public that it believed Thunder Horse could restart by late August 2006. All of the same great people, writers and editors but now with more firepower. After workers evacuated in advance of Hurricane Dennis, though, the misplumbed pipe allowed water to cascade through ballast and bilge tanks. For U.S. consumers now paying an average of $3.10 a gallon for gas, Thunder Horse would relieve some of the price pressure: Fully operational, it would boost total U.S. production by 5 percent. BP said Monday it approved an expansion in the Gulf of Mexico that will add 50,000 barrels of daily oil equivalent to its massive Thunder Horse field.

Rather, an incorrectly plumbed, 6-inch length of pipe had allowed water to flow freely among several ballast tanks. The allocation makes sense for BP, because the gulf’s deep waters today float above one of the hottest oil prospects on the planet, matching up with Angola and a small handful of lesser places at a time when new huge prospects are not on anyone’s maps. Today, it produces about 300,000 boepd, up from less than 200,000 boepd about five years ago.On Tuesday, the company said it will spend $1.3 billion to develop a third phase of its Atlantis field off the coast of New Orleans. the new Fibromyalgia Treating by RedOrbit! Politics have made oil from the Middle East, Africa, Russia and South America is increasingly out of reach. “You’re trying to change things to make something good. DESCRIBE IN SEQUENCE HOW ACCIDENT HAPPENED: On September 13, 2007, at approximately 15:15 hours on OCS-G 9868, Mississippi Canyon (MC) 778, A Platform, while sitting on the floor working on "drop in steamer" Injured Like Janus, the two-faced Roman god that glimpses both the past and the future, Thunder Horse stands as a reminder of BP’s mistake-prone recent track record. Then BP workers must carefully lower the joined pieces back down, all without causing any new problems. And for good reason. No one says it will be easy. Outfitted with cameras and high-precision robotic arms, the sub was capable of spotting any problems, and fixing many potential mishaps. Removing and reassembling an oil field at such depths has never been attempted. He knew he only had until the end of 2006 to have all the sea-floor equipment ready to be lifted. The British energy company has discovered 1 billion barrels of crude at an existing oilfield in the Gulf of Mexico. We want to hear from you.Sign up for free newsletters and get more CNBC delivered to your inboxGet this delivered to your inbox, and more info about our products and services. But that thinking changed.