Based on true events, 2016's Deepwater Horizon leaves viewers wondering what happened to BP's safety-bucking managers, Donald Vidrine & Robert Kaluza.
28, 2012: Robert Kaluza, a BP well site leader from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion... One of those rig supervisors, Donald Vidrine, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge...
Donald Vidrine, one of two BP supervisors on the Deepwater Horizon when the drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, has died in Louisiana at age 69.
BP Plc’s guilty plea in the 2010 deaths of 11 crew members of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico will be considered by a federal judge in New Orleans on Jan. 29. BP announced Nov. 15 that it reached a deal with the U.S. Justice Department to plead guilty to 14 counts, including 11 for felony seaman’s manslaughter, and pay $4 billion to end all criminal charges related to the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. U.S. District Judge Sarah S. Vance said yesterday she will determine at the Jan. 29 hearing whether to ...
Halliburton Co. may escape paying billions of dollars in damages for its role in the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history thanks to statements by a witness for codefendant BP Plc. Halliburton is accused by victims of the Gulf of Mexico spill, and by codefendant companies including BP, of doing defective work on the Macondo well, scene of the 2010 environmental catastrophe. Next week, a federal judge will begin hearing evidence in a trial in New Orleans federal court where blame for the disaster will be apportioned among the companies that ...
asked the BP executive, Mark Bly, why the report doesn't mention a call from BP rig supervisor Donald Vidrine to an onshore engineer, Mark Hafle, less than an hour before the blast killed...
Those still awaiting trial include BP rig supervisors Robert Kaluza and Donald Vidrine, who are charged with manslaughter and are accused of disregarding abnormal high-pressure readings....
Defendants ROBERT KALUZA and DONALD VIDRINE were Well Site Leaders employed in the Gulfof Mexico by a wholly-owned subsidiary ofBP plc ("BP"), a multinational energy corporation...
Summary ; Jimmy Harrell's warnings about the Deepwater Horizon rig were ignored by BP, leading to a tragic disaster. ; Despite being injured in the explosion, Harrell survived, though he sustained lasting injuries and lived with PTSD. ; The real-life Jimmy Harrell passed away in 2021 after battling cancer.
District Judge Carl Barbier said Donald Vidrine should undergo a medical exam. Vidrine was one of BP's well site leaders on the Deepwater Horizon and he has claimed medical problems should...