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Q. This was an unusually deep displacement of mud from the well, was it not?
A. It was deeper than normal due to the fact the lockdown sleeve needed weight below it to get set
properly.
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Q. What did you understand the reason to be for the 8367 [foot displacement]?
A. I don't know. Q. You never understood that? A. No.
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Q.Mr. Skidmore, did you ever mention to someone on the back deck of the Bankston, the boat that
evacuated you,that at sometime prior to the blowout, that you had send an e-mail to tbe BP office asking
for a snakebite kit? You were overheard saying that. I want to ask you about that, what that means.
A. Oh, I hate it, but I did. ... this would just be in reference to just old sorry luck you might be having at the
time.
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A. The only thing that I can think of is there was, during the pre tour meeting, confusion as to the
procedure that they were going to use for that particular operation they conducted on the well.
Q. And what operation was it?
A. The setting of the seal assembly and displacing the riser and performing a negative test.
Q. And when was that pretour meeting held?
A. At 11:00, 11 a.m.
Q. And when you say "confusion," do you have any more details about it?
A. The OIM was explaining the procedure one way that he had gotten from BP, and the BP company
man, who was sitting directly beside me, said that that was not the correct procedure, he
had a different procedure; and the driller, Dewey Revette, was saying that we'll just kind of go with it as
we go with it.
Q. And so --
A. "We'll get it worked out. Let's get up there and go to work."
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Q. Mr. Winslow, generally speaking, when a negative test is being performed for a Transocean customer
and that customer's company man is present for the test, who decides whether or not the test has been
passed?
A. The customer.
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Q. You were asked very recently about a BP negative test. Were you ever aware that BP in any of the
wells your rigs had been on with BP as the well site owner, have you ever seen a published negative test
protocol from BP?
A. No.
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I discussed [the results of the negative test] with Don Vidrine later in the living quarters, and he said the
test was good, and they would continue with the displacement.
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Q. Can you describe the procedures that you observed before leaving the rig floor for the negative test
that you observed? What did you observe was actually done?
A. Displace the choke and kill lines with seawater, displace down the drill pipe with seawater and into the
annulus above the stack, and close the annular.
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Each rig does negative tests their own way.
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During the negative test, they felt like they lost approximately 60 barrels of mud through the annular. They
increased the regulator pressure to 1900 and it stopped leaking.
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Our statement refers to . . . our crews were asked to participate within a portion of the negative test.
During the negative test sea water is actually pumped into a number of the tubulars to be able to simulate
a reduction in hydrostatic pressure that will take place once mud is unloaded from the well. Through that
sequence of establishing a sea water column in the well, a request was made to our crew to simply bleed
fluid off. At the direction of the well owner, we bled pressure and fluid back to the tanks on the cement
unit. We then closed the well in. We reported those findings to the well owner and he proceeded with
additional log work on the rig. But in no way were we in an ability to be able to confer either success or
failure from that limited participation in the test.
Q. Are you saying then, that the test was not sufficient or was inadequate to make a determination?
A. In being able to perform a negative test, again . . . a sea water . . . a column of sea water is pumped
into the well and a differential pressure is established. Tubulars are actually sealed off through
performing the negative test. And when a negative test is successfully performed, that differential
pressure can be released and there should be no flow of the well.
Q. That was the case here?
A.We did not have enough information to be able to determine just what was the state of the fluid
columns that had been established in the well. Flow would not be a positive indication of a good test.
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Jason Anderson said that annular element will compress the drill pipe. He said all company men do it
differently but this [the bladder effect] happens every time annular puts pressure on fluid below.
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Q. It was your understanding from what the toolpusher told you that it was the BP man, Bob Kaluza, who
was going to call town to see about maybe doing another negative test?
A. That's correct.
Q. What did you understand him to mean when he said the BP man was going to call town? What is
town?
A. Call the main office in town, just to tell them what the results were. Whether the pods are negative, I
don't know, and wait on a decision.
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After the negative test, Don told Bob to go call the office and tell them we are going to displace the well.
Bob said okay.
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Normally use WBM, couple ppg over mud weight; MI said no issues using LCM pill. Said they would wash
it up. Could also get rid of pill and dumped.
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« I recall a scrimmage taking place between the company man, the OIM, the toolpusher and driller
concerning the events of the day. The driller was outlining what was going to take place. Whereupon, the
company man stood up and said, "No, we have some changes to that." I really didn't pay attention to what
he was saying. They had to do with displacing the riser for later on that tour and the OIM, the driller and
the toolpusher had a disagreement with that. There was a -- I remember there was a slight argument that
took place and a difference of opinions, and the company man was basically saying, "Well, this is how it's
going to be," and the toolpusher and the OIM reluctantly agreed."
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Brown: « The company man basically said we have changes to [the drilling plan]. We will be doing
something different. I recall it was something about displacing the riser with sea water for that tower. «
Basically, [the company man] ended up saying, well, this is how it's going to be. And they started
reluctantly agreeing, and -- Cooper: You're saying the guy from BP won the argument basically? He said,
this is how we're going to do it? Brown: Yes. That's what I remember, yes. He basically said, this is how
it's going to be.
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Q Okay. Now, are you aware, also, that in addition to the displacement being done before the lock-down
sleeve, the [surface plug] cement job was going to be done before the lock-down sleeve as well? Are you
aware of that? . . .
A Correct. I'm aware of that.
Q So the sequence on the Macondo well was going to be displace down to . . . 8100 feet, then set the
plug at that depth, and then run the lock-down sleeve; is that correct?
A Yes. Before we run the lock-down sleeve, we would have made another run of the lead impression tool,
and then the lock-down sleeve.
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Q. Mr. Skidmore, did you ever mention to someone on the back deck of the Bankston, the boat that
evacuated you, that at sometime prior to the blowout, that you had send an e-mail to tbe BP office asking
for a snakebite kit? You were overheard saying that. I want to ask you about that, what that means.
A. Oh, I hate it, but I did. ... this would just be in reference to just old sorry luck you might be having at the
time.