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Originally Posted by peter_4059
Haven't heard this reported before - what's your source Mark?
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Yes - I agree with that assessment. There are a couple of emails going around with 60 minutes correspondent Scott Pelley who interviewed Mike Williams, a survivor who jumped off the rig, being bounced around walls by a few explosions prior. Really lucky escape. It is quite obvious that BP bullied hard to push production and schedules. There were a number of things wrong with the rig that all parties involved knew about, the most vital being what they call the BOP. He says:
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It's used to seal the well shut in order to test the pressure and integrity of the well, and, in case of a blowout, it's the crew's only hope. A key component is a rubber gasket at the top called an "annular," which can close tightly around the drill pipe...." ... they found broken parts of the rubber gasket inside the mud...
Drilling went on although everybody knew all this two weeks prior to the blowout. Murphy's law prevailed again. That's all there is to it. You know the rest. Now it's all pointing fingers and blaming game.
You could blame
Transocean because they own the rig for not telling BP execs off at the time. That's the only thing they did wrong. BP pushed hard, ignored the warning and risks and ultimately collected... now the bloody thing that's worth 100s of millions of dollars is resting on the sea floor I wonder if their profit margin is out of the window? 