The Deepwater Horizon Accident: What Happened and Why?

November 16, 2010 - Roland Horne begins the first of a series of two lectures with an overview of what led to the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig on April 20, 2010, and the subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry.

Roland Horne is the Thomas Davies Barrow Professor in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering in the School of Earth Sciences.

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http://woods.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/index.php

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http://pie.stanford.edu/

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• Environment
• Earth Science
• Petroleum Engineering
• Marine Life
• Ecological Disaster
• Ecology
• Biology
• Gulf of Mexico
• Gas Production
• Oil Rig
• exploration
• energy resource
• leak
• BP
• spill
• investigation
• off-shore drilling
• energy
• hydrocarbon
• Riser

[puddingpimp]

Skip to 0:05:36 to hear the lecture without all the introductions.

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[Mjhond]

Your Video Is Very Useful Sharing Roland Horne begins the first of a series of two lectures with an overview of what led to the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig

[grunder20]

very long video.

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[menzerna1234]

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[DasFresh]

does anyone have the power point file he used for the presentation? Id like to get a close look at some of the slides since the resolution can be low on youtube.

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[shintsu01]

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an other problem is how to get the energy out of the reaction.

if we want a quick greener tech we need to develop thorium reactors for the short run and rely on fusion after a 100 years or so