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Can I get everyone's attention?

Mr. Williams please rise.

Please raise your right hand, sir.

Do you solemnly swear that the testimony

you're about to give is the truth, the whole truth

and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.

Please, be seated.

Mr. Williams, can you please give us

your best recollection of the event on the Deepwater Horizon?

I was on the phone around 9:30 with my wife.

That's when I heard the hissing noise.

I hear the engines start to rev.

The hissing turned into a full-blown roar.

Higher than I can even describe it.

And within seconds, there was a huge explosion.

Projectiles comin' from everywhere. The heat was overwhelming.

Can you please explain to me

how the Deepwater Horizon's alarm system is set up?

The general alarm is set up

to inform the entire rig of, number 1, fire,

number 2, combustible gas, number 3, toxic gas.

Each condition has a distinct tone and a distinct visual light.

On the evening of April 20th did you hear

any one of those alarms on the Deepwater Horizon?

No, sir.

Do you know why you never heard that alarm, sir?

Mr. Williams?

Mr. Williams!

Passing through 3,000 feet.

Continuing down.

Gonna stick to the north side of this so far.

Scan on it.

'Bout 500 foot of riser left.

BOP's in view.

How's that wellhead surface looking?

Minor corrosion.

Not much more than I'd expect on wellhead of this age.

All right, mark it. Bring her up.

I just had the craziest dream.

Wow.

Wow? Was I in it?

I was... No.

I was at a concert and then on the side of the stage

there was this...

It was like a two-legged rabbit and...

I don't know what part of that is more terrifying.

Listen to me. Listen to me.

I would move...

And then it would mimic everything I was doing.

Oh, don't tell me anymore, because I know where this is going.

I think the rabbit was my... mother. Mother. Yes. I know.

Thank you. Now it's my nightmare.

Thank you.

It was hostile. Okay.

It was a hostile rabbit. Okay.

I got it.

I'm sorry.

What are you doing?

That's it?

That's how you're gonna leave me for 21 days and nights?

I'm lettin' you get your sleep.

Well, I need many other things than sleep.

You have to promise not to bring up your mother, though.

All right?

So you want the 30, the 60, or the 90-second love package?

Honey, I'm gonna take the whole 90.

Oh, the pressure!

The pressure, the pressure, the pressure!

Gonna miss that laugh.

Gonna miss that mouth. Aw.

Hey.

Give me those eyes.

Love you!

This is not our deal, dude.

All right. All right.

You consistently overestimate your skills as a mechanic.

What was that?

Let's go, baby.

Let me drive. Mmm-mmm.

Let me drive! Nope.

Let me drive. Nope.

Pretty please?

Really wanna drive? Yeah.

Then sell that piece of shit and get a Ducati.

Loud. Bull in a china shop.

Ow.

I only did not knock because I want a brother.

Okay. Well, that's disturbing.

'Cause you're not supposed to know anything about that.

You're supposed to just think babies are cute.

Loud. Will you sit down, please?

I really want a brother.

How's it goin'? Fine.

Honey, show Daddy.

I'm not done. You did such a good job.

It's showtime.

It's really great.

You can't look at me. Why?

Because it makes me uncomfortable.

My looking at you makes you uncomfortable?

Stop! All right.

My dad is Mike.

He works on a drilling rig that pumps oil out from underneath the ocean.

No, no, the Deepwater doesn't pump a drop of oil, okay, baby?

We're the explorers.

So my dad and his friends find the oil.

And then put in all the plumbing so other lamer crews can come in...

Don't say "lamer." They are lamer.

Okay, but listen, even those lamer dudes,

they don't have to pump anything, remember?

Because that oil wants to come rushing up naturally...

No, no, no, shh! All right, all right.

Because that oil is a monster.

Like the mean old dinosaurs all that oil used to be.

So for 300 million years, these old dinosaurs

have been getting squeezed tighter and tighter...

We get it. We get it. Just use two "tighters."

'Cause they got miles of earth and ocean pressing down on them.

They're trapped. Ornery.

Then Dad and his friends make a hole in their roof.

Yeah!

And these mean old dinosaurs can't believe it.

So they rush to the new hole. Then, smack!

They run into a big machine that he and his friends

have down on the ocean floor called a Big Guy Preventer?

Blowout Preventer.

They run into this stuff called mud...

All right, get it in there. ...that they cram down the straw.

The mud's so thick and heavy it blocks the monsters from coming up.

And then they sail away to the next.

That's when all the lame-os show up all happy like they did something.

Don't say "lame-o."

But it was my daddy who tamed the dinosaurs.

Yeah! Yeah.

That was amazing. Stay 10 forever, please.

Daddy, you need to get me a fossil.

Oh, yes. I will.

I wanna be able to hold it up and say, "My daddy tames the dinosaurs."

Tell Daddy what Maggie's dad did.

Her dad works at the zoo. And he brought a real penguin.

You can't do that! Brought in a penguin.

How do you compete with a penguin?

You get a fossil. There should be rules.

Oh, my God.

Honey! What?

There's only so much stuff in the can! Well, stop it! Stop it.

Buy gas to go to work to buy gas to go back to work.

To buy more gas to get to work.

Hey, you know the passwords, right?

Where the insurance stuff is. You know, call Schuman first.

What are you talking about? I just...

What are you on about? I just...

I just got a little spooked on the go-home chopper last hitch. It's not...

Gimme some of that.

Babe, the only time you start worrying about a Marine

is when he stops bitching.

Don't use my lines against me. I'm using your line against you.

Don't use my lines. I just did.

All right, babe. All right, Fish.

I love you. I love you.

See ya in 3 weeks. Okay. In 3 weeks.

Behave.

Next.

Good morning, Mr. Jimmy.

How we doin', Sarah? Good. How are you?

I'm good. You can place your bags

on the baggage scale and step on the feet.

Where you headed today? Same place. Deepwater Horizon.

Where you flying out to? Deepwater Horizon.

And who you work for? Transocean.

Wanna know how much you weigh?

You know I do. 181.

What'd I tell ya? Yeah, you did good.

Keep it that way. All right.

Alrighty. Have a seat in the lobby and we'll call you

when your flight's ready. Thank you.

Mr. Sims?

Mr. O'Bryan? David Sims.

My name's Jimmy Harrell. Offshore lnstallation Manager on Deepwater.

Buddy, thank you very much for taking us out today.

I know you guys are swamped and you didn't have to.

No, I had to. Listen, you mind losing that tie?

I would.

It's not the tie. It's... It's the color.

Purple? Uh... More magenta.

And?

Well, magenta alarm on an oil rig is as bad as it gets.

That's worthy of superstition.

Good morning. Mike Williams.

Where you headed today? Deepwater Horizon.

All right.

What'd ya do on your downtime?

I started workin' on that airboat again.

Yeah?

I'm upping it from 600 horsepower to 1,200 horsepower.

And I got me a little, uh, Sensenich prop off that Super Cub.

Trying to make it fly? No, I just wanna make it go faster.

Loud and clear.

Roger. Got everyone.

Hey, Bosco, I got the Deepwater Horizon coordinates in the FMS.

492, your tail is clear.

Wind is calm. 2-1 is in use. Altimeter 2997.

Paris Control, this is Bristow 2 Bravo Gulf.

We're headin' out into open ocean. ETA 45 minutes to Deepwater Horizon.

Copy that, Bristow 2 Bravo Gulf.

What is it you do at BP, Mr. Sims?

Completions. Oh, shit, here we go, Jimmy.

Well, as you know, we... We a little behind.

43 days. But who's countin', right?

What were you gonna do with your bonus, Mike?

Dig a pool. You? Fix my car.

You do know the first well collapsed on us?

Took us 5 days just to pull a million-dollar drill pipe out.

Whose fault was that?

What are you drivin' that needs that much work?

'69 Mustang. Fastback?

Vinyl top. What's up with it?

Today it was a rough idle.

Made the exhaust smell like gas right out of the pump.

You smell gas when it's not running? No. So it's not a leak in the tank.

Hey! Shit!

That was a bird strike, folks.

I ain't sayin' nothin'.

Deepwater Horizon is only a mile out.

We should be fine to land. We'll run a safety check there.

Well, anything that big oughta be made by God.

That's beautiful.

And you know it's not on stilts. It's not a jack-up.

Yeah, I do, and I still can't believe that thing's a boat.

Well, you can thank this very talented young lady

right back here for that.

What the hell's the Bankston doin' here?

Who gave that order?

2 Bravo Gulf, permission to land,

Deepwater Horizon.

Permission granted, 2 Bravo Gulf.

Beginning our descent. Roger that.

Welcome aboard!

You guys already done?

I don't know what to tell you, Mr. Jimmy.

Hey, you guys finished? I don't know what to tell you, Mike.

Somebody's gotta talk to Vidrine. What? Are you finished?

Hey, Skip. Yes, sir.

Logging team is leaving?

Yeah, Schlumberger's out. They're gone.

Briefing said they're supposed to be testing that cement down there.

Is it already finished? Mike, how you been?

Skip, are we done here? You gotta talk to Vidrine.

Vidrine?

What'd he say? I can't hear him.

What did Mr. Skip say?

They were supposed to test to see whether the cement was holdin'.

I guess they left without doin' it.

What? Hold up, they didn't...

Those BP sons of bitches sent the Schlumberger guys home.

Seriously? Yep.

Kuchta, why is the Bankston here? Good morning to you, too.

What is the Bankston doin' here?

Morning, Pete.

Happy to see me?

I'm always happy to see you, Andrea.

Where's the pisser, Williams? Sign that says "toilet".

Skip say anything to you about runnin' a cement log?

He ain't call me. We win the war here

and I'm just now findin' out about it?

'Cause I sure as hell don't know

how they'd have the time to do the cement test,

'cause they're flyin' away.

Shit, Jimmy, I just drive the boat, man.

How'd the positive test go? Positive test went well.

We're in rig down mode. Rig down mode?

How we looking? Sitting at 166.

Winds are at 185 and around 5 knots. Seas are calm. That's good.

Holding great over our watch circle. Sitting right on top.

Are you still dating that itty bitty guy with the motorcycle?

Any issues with the thrusters?

Andrea? Yes, sir?

Get on the radio to Captain Landry on Bankston

and see what he's doin' and why.

You got it, Mr. Jimmy.

Damon Bankston, this is Deepwater Horizon, over.

Deepwater Horizon, this is Damon Bankston. Go ahead.

The OIM wants to know what you're doin' here.

Well, I hear we gettin' off this beast and movin' on to the next.

You can call it a bitch.

When are we supposed to be leaving?

Well, I'm told to be ready

to start taking on drilling mud about 1800.

Wow.

I heard you had a positive pressure test this morning.

I guess they assume the negative test is gonna run just as smooth.

They told me to get ready to start moving on.

Who's "they"? BP company men.

Vidrine, Kaluza.

I don't know. I wait for the order and come pick up your mud.

Any other questions?

Nope. That's it.

So BP company men Vidrine and/or Kaluza are hoping that we have tamed this bitch

and are ready to displace drilling mud 1800 hours.

Is that correct, Captain?

That is correct. Mornin', Mr. Jimmy.

All of a sudden.

Just like that.

Thank you, Captain.

And the goddamn phones still don't work, Mike.

Hey, I flew in with you, Mr. Jimmy. Would you do me a favor?

Run down to the drill shack.

Ask Jason if those Schlumberger guys did their job.

Did they run the cement log?

Roger that.

Thank you. Gentlemen, you couldn't perhaps enlighten me

on this cement log situation, could ya?

Cement log? Mmm-hmm.

Do you know if they're planning it? Running it? Did it?

Mmm. Yeah?

Not really. Hey, Ronnie.

Might be an ignition problem with your Mustang.

I was thinking it was maybe fouled plugs.

Well, it could be a wire. Could be distributor.

Does it sound like it's skipping? Nope.

You know what I'm gonna do for you, young lady?

Keep thinking about all the expensive things could be wrong with your ride.

Gee, thanks. Hey, stick shift or automatic?

Do you know me?

Oh, you gotta stop grindin' shit out of that clutch.

I know that.

Oh, yeah. Says Mr. Toyota. Yeah. Uh-huh.

Attention on the rig.

Rig safety announcement...

Roughneck movin'.

Come to me, baby. Come to me, baby. Come on.

Bleed 400 barrels of mud.

Roger that. Beginning actuation.

Can I say...

Trippin' pipe is lots of fun lots of fun, lots of fun"

Shut up.

Hey. Duck!

What up, Mike?

How you doin', Caleb? Hey, Mike, how you doin', man?

I was a lot better couple hours ago.

Why's that? I was asleep.

Yeah? Yeah.

We all got woken up and got us working over.

We got a lotta pipe to pull if we're gonna get out of here tonight.

What's up with street clothes? You look pretty.

Aw, man, Mr. Jimmy's pissed and wants to know if we got a cement bond log test.

I'm not sure. I don't think so.

No? Hey, Shane! Yeah?

Come here, boy.

Schlumberger run a cement bond log test?

I don't know. I don't think they did it.

I just woke up, so... Is that stupid?

I don't know if it's stupid, but...

It ain't smart. It ain't smart.

Look at you guys. Like synchronized swimmers.

I think you think too much, you gonna give him a headache.

All right, get the hell out of here.

All right, yeah. Up, up, up.

Okay, I'm watchin' our roughnecks.

Fellas. What the hell are you wearing?

Mr. Jimmy wants to know if the team from Schlumberger ran a cement bond log test.

A what? Cement job.

Test the cement job. Come on, man, work with me.

Who's that again? Oh, cut the shit, man.

Come on, Jimmy's pissed, man. Schlum-burger, you democrat.

Well, did we run the test?

No, Vidrine, Kaluza sent 'em home without testin' anything.

Why in the hell would they do that?

They never feel the urge to take me through their thinkin', Mike.

But I assume it's got somethin' to do with...

Money, money, money, money

Money!

Your phones are broken.

Shit.

Hey, Mr. Jimmy.

Go ahead.

BP sent Schlumberger team home without running any test.

There was no cement bond log.

Thank you, Mike.

Mike, "A" chair just crashed.

Goddamn it. Blue screen o' death again.

Hey, Duck, is your chair still up?

My computer screen is shaky.

And my smoke detector's out.

How you doin', Mike? Shit.

I'm gonna dump my bags and grab my tools and I'll be back to fix it.

Doin' it all with Band-Aids and bubble gum, my man.

Every time I peel off a Band-Aid on this rig,

I find 3 or 4 more.

Spit and glue ain't gettin' it done. One more time with the "money". Come on.

Come on, you been rehearsin' for weeks.

Money, money, money...

No, no, the good part, man.

That is the good part! Money!

I'd kill for that money

Almighty dollar

Hi, Hollywood.

Hey, Mike! What's the word, Dale?

What do you know? We done?

Not much. Could be.

Yeah, I'm going fishing tonight. Undercover.

I got a feelin' we're getting off this well tonight.

I don't think nobody's gonna be doin' no fishin'.

You gonna use your crane, man? Maybe catch a beluga or Shamu?

Good idea. Shit.

Wanna make a bet we're at the same spot next hitch?

Yeah, give me odds. 50-to-1.

Ah, shit. I ain't touchin' that.

30-to-1. Same spot. No way.

Mike Williams, you cheap bastard!

Patrick. What's goin' on, Mike?

What's the word? I heard we done.

You heard we're done? Yeah, I heard we're done.

Who'd you hear that from? I can't tell y'all that, Mike.

What do you mean, you can't tell me that?

I just can't tell y'all that, Mike.

Why can't you tell me that? I just can't tell ya.

But I can tell ya that Gordon's lookin' for ya.

Did Gordon tell you we were done?

No. What does Gordon want?

I don't know. He got somethin' to show you.

What do you know? I know we're done.

Were you in my shop?

No. Don't touch my shit.

I wasn't touchin' your shit.

All right, go fix something.

All right have a wonderful day, Mike.

Yeah, you too. Shit.

Hold on, baby, hold on.

Shh. What were you sayin'?

Great news. Chopper didn't crash.

Shit, I assumed and then I remarried.

Oh, yeah? He rich?

Remember what your mama always said,

"Just as easy to marry a rich man, Felicia, honey."

Baby, if I had a nickel for all the dumb shit my mom said,

I wouldn't need a rich man.

You gotta fix this by the way. You have got to fix this stove.

I'm gonna fix it as soon as I get home, don't worry.

Hey, come close to the computer.

Huh? Come over to the computer.

Give me those eyes.

How is it out there?

Same shit. Well from Hell.

You ready? Ready?

3... 1... 2... Go!

That face.

Sociopath.

Oh, that's... That is focus.

That is determination. That is intensity. Drive!

Ah! I got you.

I hate losing to you. I hate it.

I'll see you soon, okay?

All right. See ya.

Why they touchin' my shit? Touchin' my shit.

Touchin' my shit.

I can tell ya they want us to head to our next location.

Kaskida.

Was this run by anybody at BP? Kaluza, Vidrine, anybody?

Vidrine ran it by me. This... This comes from Vidrine.

Bob, let me impose upon you what I think is most important here.

We need to go from Macondo to Kaskida by May 16th.

Kaskida is an uncommon prospect. 3 to 4 billion barrels?

That's worth more than BP itself.

Do I look like fuckin' Santa Claus.

You do look a little like Santa Claus.

Coach Miles may have played in Michigan but that boy got Louisiana soul.

Versus Saban? Hey, just 'cause we win...

Roy! Sayin' "we" like you went to Bama?

Did you go to LSU?

When I was potty trained, I was taught to flush,

wave and say, "See you at Tuscaloosa."

Hey, you boys working for the government?

Cleaning a clean room?

We're still finding mud from the last kick. Over 5,000 PSI.

Grab a mop! Whoo! That's just crazy.

Look what the pressure did to this drill string during the kick.

That's one for the trophy case. True dat.

Hey, Patrick said you got somethin' for me.

Yes, sir.

Before y'all took off last time, shaker 4 goes down.

After some pokin' and proddin',

I finally found the source of the problem.

Check this out.

I been hidin' this for you since your last hitch.

Is that a tooth?

Oh, buddy!

You just made a little girl's year. And her old man's. Thank you.

I owe you, man. Oh-oh!

All right, boys, let's rig up the kelly.

Hey, Gordon.

Hey, fellas, I'm tellin' ya, it's gonna be a full-on shit storm once Mr...

They sent them home. Yeah.

Walk with me, Mike. Where we headed?

To murder some BP company men.

Shit, I got hammer, screwdriver. Excellent.

Say, Mike, did you brush your teeth this morning?

Ah, yes, sir.

Boy, did you floss?

Uh, no. No, why?

Save ya a lotta pain and money in the long run, I'll tell ya.

Shit. Jimmy's...

Oh, he's about to go off on the BP guys.

They never ran that cement log. They didn't run nothin'.

They sent 'em home without doin' shit, now we goin' after BP.

Hey! What's the matter? What, ya owe 'em a lotta money?

Come on, Mike, stay on my hip.

Shit! Get 'em.

Yeah, baby.

Don, look at line 51. Your ceiling cost variances.

I'm not showing 51.

Well, if it isn't Don Vidrine and Bob Kaluza.

Welcome back, Mr. Jimmy. Oh, yeah.

So, we got all 500 feet of cement poured, huh?

Yep.

That cement's the only thing between us and a blowout.

And it's cured? Yes.

Had enough time, huh?

Takes time to do it right.

I mean, if that cement job is compromised

then everything above it is too.

Well, it's not compromised. Houston doesn't have a problem.

So I assume Schlumberger guys said the same?

Cement bond log they ran said the same, yeah?

We are confident in the integrity of our cement job, are we not?

Oh, we quite comfortable with the integrity of that cement, that for true.

You guys are just like my granddad.

Pardon?

Well, you see, my granddaddy, he, uh, he never even went to the dentist

'cause he didn't wanna know all what was wrong

'cause then he'd have to deal with it.

You don't wanna know if that cement job

on this well is shit 'cause you're 43 days and $50 million over budget.

You really should include yourself in that, Mr. Jimmy.

BP picked this spot to drill, Bob. Consequences of that's on you guys.

'Course, I gotta try to deal with those consequences,

so yeah, I'm included.

The point is, you sent the testing team home

before they could do their job,

maybe give y'all some news y'all didn't wanna hear.

What would it have cost you to run that test, huh? 125 grand?

You're a $180 billion company and you're cheap.

That's why we a $186 billion company.

We worry about those bills. I worry about my rig.

My crew lives on it. You just rent it.

Don, you and I both know we need some downtime for maintenance.

Mike, how many of our machines need repair?

Uh, 390, Mr. Jimmy. 390?

Yes, sir. Almost 10 percent of all the machinery aboard.

Name a few for me.

A few? Mmm.

I would love to hear exactly what piece of mission critical equipment are down.

Shit, where do I start?

"A" drilling chair. Process Station 18. BOP control pods. Telephone system.

Pipe-racking system. GPS antenna. Direct TV system. Wireless lnternet.

Iron roughneck. Top drive rack back system.

Auxiliary draw-works control. Salt water service pumps.

Smoke alarms in the galley.

And the reason why you're sweatin' so hard

is 'cause the compressor for the AC on this deck are down, too.

Everything but the toilets, huh?

No, no, you got problems there, too,

but I don't do shitters. That's Engineering.

Who are you?

Mike Williams, chief ET.

I'ma tell you like I told your executives on the chopper ride in.

And how 'bout the timing of that visit?

We gonna properly secure this well

before a production platform come in right after us and starts pumpin' oil.

Unfortunately, to do it properly takes time.

43 days? 44 days?

Keep countin', Bob.

45 days? 46 days?

Have a cookie, Bob. Oh.

Can't run a cement log.

I'll tell you what we gonna do now.

We gonna run the negative pressure test, before we do anything else.

If you really think we need to.

I really think we need one, Bob, and so should you.

Especially since we got no idea whether this well is stable or not.

Hey! Dial tone! Day's lookin' up.

Mr. Anderson, it's Mr. Jimmy.

We gonna run a negative pressure test. Start trippin' out 3,000 feet of pipe.

Thank you.

Uh, young man, pardon me.

Can you tell me where I could find a Mr. Mike Williams?

Yes, sir. He's in the ET shop on the second deck by the coffee shop.

Thank you much. Have a wonderful day, sir.

And you, sir.

Mr. Williams?

Mr. Vidrine, are you lost?

Not at all.

Just was lookin' to come by and visit with ya for a minute.

Well, how can I help you?

Seems as though you had something more you wanted to say in there.

And I thought I'd give you the time to say it.

Okay, so... This rig is broke? I didn't say that.

Sounded like you did.

Is there a reason you're in my shop, Mr. Vidrine?

We a big company, Mike, BP.

A very big far-reaching, complex organization.

Lot of movin' parts. Millions of movin' parts.

Thousands upon thousands of people.

And we all work very hard to ensure that all those people

and all those movin' parts are functionin' properly

as a means to an end.

A very profitable end for all of us. So they the big picture.

They the little picture, like you and the malfunctionin' shitters.

But you see, in point of fact, they all kind of interconnected.

They a flow at work here, Mike.

So if you off, it's off. Then I'm off.

Then we off. Then the whole damn train is off.

You feel me, Mr. Williams? You on medication, Mr. Vidrine?

I am merely tryin' to assess just how close this train is huggin' the tracks.

Okay. I hear ya.

You want my take? I mean, you really want my take?

I do. Okay.

I think you all tryin' to run out of fuel as the wheels touch down.

Runnin' out of gasoline as the plane lands is not smart.

It's flawed thinking. It's hope as a tactic.

Duly noted. And much appreciated, sir.

Just the opinion of the little guy.

That a catfish?

Yep. 65 pounds.

What y'all call that? Nibblin'?

Noodlin'. We noodle for catfish.

And you know, it's funny, 'cause when we go noodlin',

my best friend Peanut and I, we go down there

with a 5th of Crown and a lake.

Walk down the boat ramp.

We look for the biggest, darkest, blackest hole we can stick our arm in.

And we hope one of them big ass sons-o-bitches

bites down on us as hard as he can so we can rip his ass out of that hole.

We wanna get bit.

That's the plan.

Difference is, we're ready for that bite.

We are ready.

We're wearin' shoes, hats, gloves, skullcaps, sunglasses, and we are ready.

I don't stick my hand in that hole with that monster

and hope for the best.

Uh-uh. Hope ain't a tactic, Don.

I thank you for your time.

Have a wonderful day, sir.

And you.

Piece of shit.

Attention on the rig,

negative pressure test is about to commence.

All non-essential personnel,

please stay clear of the rig floor, mud pits...

Bring her into the current.

Come right 10 degrees. Lock heading at 1-7-6.

Coming right 10 degrees.

Turning to 176.

Turning.

Damon B. Bankston...

What is that, your 5th cup?

I'm just saying.

You go ahead and make sure everybody's up and fed

and ready to get after it.

This might be the final test. Roger that.

Another negative pressure test?

Another. Another negative pressure test.

Is there a problem? We got a bad well.

They're all bad wells. We're in a tough prospect.

Got that sledge, Hollywood?

All right, we're in.

On station. Locked.

Locked at 1-7-6, Captain.

We came right 10 degrees.

We locked in. Y'all can run the negative test.

Yeah.

Go ahead, Jason. Copy that.

Closing the annular.

Initiating negative pressure test.

Initiating drill pipe pressure test.

You really think this is the last test?

Shit. I hope so, yes. This here's the Well from Hell, girl.

Yeah, well, that ain't gonna last long.

That's all you got?

Goal!

A hundred pounds per square inch.

That's okay. She's pushing back on us a little.

Just trying to keep us honest.

Hey, Don.

Did you get that bottle of wine I sent ya 'bout a month ago?

I did indeed. Thank you very much. I not only got it, I drank it.

Pretty good, huh? Very nice, thank you.

That's Super Tuscan, yeah? Mmm-hmm.

"Gah-jah," yeah? I know you like that.

Gaja.

Sorry?

Gaja, it's called.

Oh.

I think they're about halfway there.

How much coffee you drinking these days, Hank?

Well, Captain, I gave it up several months ago.

I drink nothing but green tea now.

Stopped taking the coffee. Doing the yoga every day.

2 weeks now.

450 PSI.

This don't look good to me.

Pressure warning.

900.

What the hell? Shit.

Pressure alert.

1395.

Pressure alert. Pressure alert.

Pressure alert.

We're holding at 1395, Mr. Jimmy. That's a lot of pressure.

Yeah. Enough to cut your car in half.

Opening the upper annular.

Hollywood, open up the drill pipe valve. We gotta bleed pressure.

Gentlemen, I hate to say this, but that is a bad test.

Not necessarily. Oh, Don. A good test starts...

Starts at 0. Stays at 0. Ends at 0.

Thank you. So there was pressure.

But there was no mud flowing up and outta that pipe.

Now explain that to me.

That's a confusing result, I'll give you that.

Kaluza and I have talked about this drill pipe,

until we blue in the face.

There's something off with it.

He says it's a bladder effect.

Bladder effect?

Bladder effect.

He said Jason would know what he's talking about.

That one's set at no indication of flow, right?

Correct. Looky here.

Hey! We actually needed that.

Bladder effect.

It is a pocket of pressure,

trapped around the annular,

which reads like drill pressure because it is trapped right there.

It is sitting right there on the sensor.

If this was a legitimate pressure issue,

then we would have mud flowing right back up

and out of that drill pipe right there.

Now, how we gonna test this?

We gonna run that negative pressure test again.

But we gonna run it on the kill line.

Not on the drill pipe.

Obviously, our problem is with that drill pipe.

You cannot have 1,395 pounds

of pressure per square inch, enough to cut your car in half,

and not have any fluid being forced up and outta that pipe by that pressure.

Boys, you got a whole mess of drilling mud on your boots out there? No?

Hey, Don.

Gotten hot in the drill shack.

We have a problem with that drill pipe

or with the sensor giving us a false reading.