Jimmy Harrell, drilling boss on ill-fated Deepwater Horizon oil rig, dies at 65
“I’ve never had a finer client that I’ve been more proud to represent than Jimmy Harrell,” said Pat Fanning, who has been practicing law for 48 years. Author: By David Hammer / Eyewitness Investigator Published: 5:13 PM CDT May 12, 2021 Updated: 12:26 PM CDT May 13, 2021
NEW ORLEANS Jimmy Harrell, the man in charge of drilling on the Deepwater Horizon when the mobile oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico 11 years ago, has died at his home in Morton, Mississippi.
He was 65.
Harrell was the offshore installation manager on the rig when the well it was drilling for BP about 50 miles off Venice, La., blew out on April 20, 2010, destroying the rig and starting the BP oil spill, the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
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