On a quiet Tuesday evening in April 2010, experienced leaders
aboard Transocean's DEEPWATER HORIZON drilling rig ran pressure
tests and declared BP's deep oil-and-gas well to be secure. They
were wrong. Hours later the well blew out, followed by explosions
and fire that killed 11, sank the rig in the mile-deep Gulf of
Mexico, and left behind mourning families, a disastrous
environmental oil spill, and questions without answers. Questions
like: Who, how, what caused BP's blowout? THE SIMPLE TRUTH is
narrative nonfiction, often called a nonfiction novel (fact-based
fiction). The story dramatizes the drilling and demise of BP's
3-1/2-mile-deep Macondo exploration well, albeit at the hands of
fictional characters, surrogates for survivors and the eleven
perfect witnesses who died that terrible night. Readers are invited
to join the crew aboard the rig and share their lives as they drill
ever deeper and make the costly decisions that define the business.
And when just one of several such decisions goes wrong and the
clock ticks down, readers, too, will better understand the simple
rule: Zero tolerance for failure, because offshore there's nowhere
to run. J.A. Turley leans on his decades-long industry career as an
offshore-drilling expert to unravel investigative findings about
the catastrophe. As a degreed petroleum engineer, ocean engineer,
and professor of petroleum engineering, he narrates the story as if
he and the reader are on the rig, immersed in the character-rich
world of offshore drilling. His detailed and extensively referenced
Epilogue documents the simple truth about the CAUSE of BP's Macondo
blowout. Readers who are also interested in the EFFECTS of BP's
blowout (the oil spill, company culture, energy independence) are
encouraged to read published nonfiction titles on the topic by
renowned authors and journalists, including: Joel Achenbach; Bob
Cavnar; John Conrad & Tom Shroder; William R. Freudenburg &
Robert Gramling; Peter Lehner & Bob Deans; Stanley Reed &
Alison Fitzgerald; Carl Safina; Loren C. Steffy; and others.
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