Hearings: BP did not suspend drilling operations after report of leaking blowout preventer

Source: The Times-Picayune

The Deepwater Horizon's blowout preventer -- the key device for shutting off a wild oil well -- had a leak in the days before it failed to operate and BP did not comply with a federal regulation requiring the rig to suspend operations, a BP company man testified Tuesday.

Well site leader Ronald Sepulvado told a Marine Board investigative panel in Kenner that before he wrapped up his stint as BP's top man on the rig four days before the April 20 accident, he reported that one of the control pods on the blowout preventer, or BOP, had a leak.

He said he told his supervisor in Houston, BP team leader John Guide, and assumed that Guide would notify federal regulators at the Minerals Management Service. According to investigators, that never happened.

Federal Regulation 250.451(d) states that if someone drilling in federal waters encounters "a BOP control station or pod that does not function properly" the rig must "suspend further drilling operations until that station or pod is operable."

Read more: http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/07/hearings_bp_did_not_suspend_dr.html

it will become even more clear that they should be held criminally responsible for the deaths of those 11 workers. :mad:

Unfortunately.

Thanks for the thread, Lone_Star_Dem.

will just... you know, "look forward". :puke:

and make it so it never happened and we dont have a suped up DeLorean with an optional Flux Capacitor installed.
All that can be done really is to try to prevent another spill like this one from happening in the end, that and coming down on BP like a ton of bricks and holding their feet to the fire to force them to pay for the entire cleanup as well as a heavy enough fine for the damages that they will never, ever think it worth trying to save a bit of money by not obeying the regulations again.

seizing most of the assets from them.

Can we please now hear (again) from all the BP "oil exploration is a complex operation, and things will rarely happen that the most safety conscious company cannot prevent" apologists?

:eyes:
I'm thinking a little more along the lines of prosecuting the murderous, polluting bastards. Won't happen, though.

your whole look forward comment.
My point is we cant change the past and there is little point in always wanting to chew over things like stale vomit, all we or anyone else can do is look to the future and work hard to try and not repeat past mistakes.

crimes committed in the recent past that they have failed to prosecute; hard to believe any DU'er wouldn't know that. That anyone could infer that I'd made a plea for time-travel in my post is just fucking bizarre, to say the least.

You posted

" And the hits just keep on coming....but, something tells me the current Administration will just... you know, "look forward". :puke: "


In that context the "look forward". :puke:" does not imo read as a critique but rather to me reads as a slur.
Before ya fly off the handle though keep in mind I am not saying dont critique him (I will probably even agree with you on some things to because he has made some decisions I am not happy with as well) but not in the method you used here if you can please.
After all even a tiny bit of such usage can have long term consequences on a politicians as we saw when such tactics were wielded by the republicans so well against many democrats these past few years ("Dean scream" for example when used by fox news) so lets not shoot ourselves in the foot.

attempt an unnecessarily snarky post, you might want to make sure your pop-culture references are applicable and relevant. You probably wouldn't have to tap-dance so much to cover them. :)

relevant but since I did not set out with that in mind I shall just ignore it :)

That bunch of criminals need to be prosecuted.

:grr:

K and R