House Energy and Commerce Committee Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) has released BP internal documents that say cutting corners was common practice for BP when it came to safety issues.
"Time after time, it appears that BP made decisions that increased the risk of a blowout to save the company time or expense," said Waxman.
BP CEO Tony Hayward has gone to great lengths to bolster the company’s faltering public image. However, it may not be enough to overshadow the evidence against BP’s role in the cause of the oil spill disaster.
Documents revealed, “In the design of the well, the company chose a riskier option among two possibilities to provide a barrier to the flow of gas in space surrounding steel tubes in the well, documents and internal e-mails show. The decision saved BP $7 million to $10 million; the original cost estimate for the well was about $96 million."
"In preparing for a cementing job to close up the well. BP rejected Halliburton's recommendation to use 21 "centralizers" to make sure the casing ran down the center of the well bore. Instead, BP used six centralizers. "
"In an e-mail on April 16, a BP official involved in the decision explained: "It will take 10 hours to install them. I do not like this." Later that day, another official recognized the risks of proceeding with insufficient centralizers but commented: "Who cares, it's done, end of story, will probably be fine."
BP also decided against a nine- to 12-hour procedure known as a "cement bond log" that would have tested the integrity of the cement. A team from Schlumberger, an oil services firm, was on board the rig, but BP sent the team home on a regularly scheduled helicopter flight the morning of April 20," USA Today reports. "Less than 12 hours later, the rig exploded.”
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And still no one is in jail......
Wake up, there are two sets of laws, one for us "slaves" and none for the "elites". The federal government is rogue and no longer recognized as a legal entity.
Also, pay attention to how much BP gave Oblama in campaign donations and you will see why no one is in jail, ask Rahm who pays for his rent free apartment in DC....BP pays for his housing.....wake up people, your government was sold to the highest bidders!
Seems human life has no value when it comes down to BP and safety - those two words just don't seem to go together for them.
Did You Know?
BP engineers alerted federal regulators at the Minerals Management Service that they were having difficulty controlling the Macondo well (Deepwater Horizon) six weeks before the disaster, according to e- mails released by the Energy and Commerce Committee.
“I don’t think this would have happened on Exxon’s watch,” Tom Bower, author of “The Squeeze: Oil, Money and Greed in the 21st Century,” said in a June 11 Bloomberg Television interview. “They’d be much more careful and much more conscious of the need to supervise subcontractors.”
WELL excuse me your sainted Exxon....... and Chevron and ConocoPhillips.
Let’s just take a look at a few of your past misdemeanours, and then we can consider again – if the moratorium on deepwater drilling should be lifted, and place it all firmly back into your nice clean hands!
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