{"id":5692,"date":"2016-10-11T07:37:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T23:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/?p=5692"},"modified":"2016-10-11T08:44:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T00:44:55","slug":"deepwater-horizon-6-degrees-of-separation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/deepwater-horizon-6-degrees-of-separation\/","title":{"rendered":"Deepwater Horizon-6 degrees of separation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Deepwater Horizon Blowout Animation\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9NQ8LehUWSE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This article is taken from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/deepwater-horizon-6-degrees-separation-scot-rudolph?trk=eml-b2_content_ecosystem_digest-recommended_articles-98-null&amp;midToken=AQGic_PqJYiYTw&amp;fromEmail=fromEmail&amp;ut=2IQpUYDSo3pTs1\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>by\u00a0<a class=\"name \" title=\"Scot Rudolph\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/scotrudolph?trk=pulse-det-athr_prof-art_hdr\" rel=\"author\">Scot Rudolph<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"actions\">\u00a0Keywords: \u00a0management, leadership, disaster response<\/div>\n<div class=\"actions\">\n<h3 class=\"left\">I went and watched Mark Wahlberg&#8217;s movie on Friday&#8230;I cried quietly at several points.\u00a0 Yes, there were things that were\u00a0inaccurate and there was artistic license taken in a number of places&#8230;but basic elements were all correct and 11 men died.\u00a0 So, what does this have to do with 6 degrees of separation?\u00a0 Well, you see, as is the case with many of us in the oil &amp; gas industry, we&#8217;ve worked for a number of different companies.\u00a0 In my case I worked for both Transocean (May 1998-Jan 2001) and BP (Nov 2001-June 2016).\u00a0 On April 26th I reported for duty in the Houma ICS as part of the spill response, first as Assistant Safety Officer and then Safety Officer.\u00a0 When I first went to work for BP as a contractor (1998-2006) I spent a number of hitches on the Deepwater Horizon and\u00a0got to know\u00a0quite a number of the crew, so for me this was very, VERY personal!\u00a0 It has been personal since 2010!\u00a0 The movie just put everything on the big screen.\u00a0\u00a0So, my emotions and memories choked my throat and watered my eyes, and I cried&#8230;again.<\/h3>\n<h3>I&#8217;ve been thinking about the events, the memories of those colleagues lost or\u00a0severely injured in body and mind, the 24 hour news cycle that ran throughout my 6 months during the response but most importantly about the fact that this isn&#8217;t the first time we&#8217;ve had this type of disaster.\u00a0 In my short lifetime in the oil &amp; gas industry I remember &#8220;Piper Alpha&#8221; (1988-167 died), the &#8216;Ocean Ranger&#8217; (1982-84 died), the &#8220;Alexander L. Kielland&#8221; (1980-123 died)\u00a0to name but\u00a03.\u00a0 The &#8220;Deepwater Horizon&#8221; (2010-11\u00a0died)\u00a0now gets added to that list.\u00a0 While each is different,\u00a0they all have one common thread&#8211;decisions were made by a few people that changed the lives of hundreds,\u00a0perhaps thousands. I was not directly impacted by any of these but like so many of you reading this, we\u00a0have all been\u00a0indirectly impacted.\u00a0 As the years go by I&#8217;ll forget details, the names and faces of some of the men and women who I worked with,\u00a0and details about the Horizon.\u00a0 What I won&#8217;t forget though are the words of George Santayana (an American philosopher and poet) who famously warned &#8220;those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them&#8221;.\u00a0 \u00a0This is what all of us should take from these tragedies.\u00a0 Whether you are a roustabout, a safety officer, a CEO or\u00a0(<em>insert your role here<\/em>) it is left to\u00a0you and I\u00a0to remember the &#8220;Deepwater Horizon&#8221; and learn a new mantra&#8211;&#8220;Do the right thing, for the right reason&#8230;THE FIRST TIME&#8221;.\u00a0 You and I have an obligation to speak up when something doesn&#8217;t look right, smell right, sound right&#8230;or it just doesn&#8217;t feel right.\u00a0 Will there be another &#8216;Deepwater Horizon&#8217;?\u00a0 Yes, probably so.\u00a0 But, how many potential &#8216;Deepwater Horizons&#8217; can we prevent?\u00a0 This is what came to me\u00a0after watching the movie (and I do recommend that you see the movie).\u00a0\u00a0So, I am renewing my commitment to apply what I&#8217;ve learned over my 27 years in HSE in memory of,\u00a0and my tribute to,\u00a0those who have lost their lives or been irreparably hurt.\u00a0 It is left to all of us to not forget and to stand\u00a0tall when one of us needs to call\u00a0a &#8216;safety\u00a0time out&#8217; to break the chain of events.\u00a0 Will you stand with me?<\/h3>\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is taken from\u00a0here. by\u00a0Scot Rudolph \u00a0Keywords: \u00a0management, leadership, disaster response I went and watched Mark Wahlberg&#8217;s movie on Friday&#8230;I cried quietly at several points.\u00a0 Yes, there were things that were\u00a0inaccurate and there was artistic license taken in a number of places&#8230;but basic elements were all correct and 11 men died.\u00a0 So, what does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6477,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6477"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}