Feature
May 2010 Vol. 237 No. 5
Op-Ed: One Consultants Triage Plan For Louisianas Offshore Disaster
I was the first petroleum engineer of Pakistan or an oil technologist, as I was called at that time, with an honors degree from the University of London, U.K. I learned my trade by doing it. When Dhulian well 42 blew out during Johnston testing, every rig hand ran off the rig’s floor. But I had designed the ‘test Christmas tree,’ and I didn’t run.