Mike Williams says he was unable to watch scenes in the movie depicting the deaths of his fellow crew members Writer-Reporter, PEOPLE It’s been six years since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig ...

For a long time after the disaster, Mike Williams was haunted by the sound of helicopters. On the night of April 20, 2010, Williams, the chief electronics technician on the Deepwater Horizon oil ...

When I went to see the movie "Deepwater Horizon" with some of my graduate students last week, I did not expect accuracy. Drilling for oil and gas is not typically viewed favorably or depicted ...

Investigations continue and critical revelations about the BP disaster are coming from one of the last crewmen to escape the deepwater horizon drilling rig. Mike Williams first told his story on ...

When the Deepwater Horizon disaster struck in 2010, Mike Williams, who worked as the Chief Electronics Technician on the oil rig, emerged as one of the voices of the tragedy. Williams was one of ...

BP has agreed to pay $18.7 billion to the government after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion that killed 11 operators and spewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico BP has ...

in this case because Wahlberg plays Mike Williams, the rig’s real-life former electronics technician. The challenge in bringing Deepwater Horizon to the big screen is that the story it’s based ...

The ending montage of Deepwater Horizon shared photos of some of the real-life survivors of the explosion and updates on their whereabouts. One of the survivors and the film's lead, Mike Williams ...

Early on in the new Peter Berg film, Deepwater Horizon, the daughter of chief electronics technician Mike Williams (Mark Wahlberg), using a Coke can as a prop, explains how oil exploration works ...

151; -- Mark Wahlberg is bringing the real-life disaster story of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig ... Wahlberg stars as Mike Williams, an electrician who escaped from the burning rig.

When the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the ... and a rig held together with "Band-aids and bubble gum," Mike Williams knows they're in risky territory. "Hope ain't a tactic," he says.

Technical failures and bad decisions There are many inaccuracies in “Deepwater Horizon.” Some are small: For example, Mike Williams, chief electronics technician for Transocean (Mark Wahlberg ...