BP probe blames its workers for Gulf blowout, report says

Source: USA Today

BP said Monday that it won't comment on a report that the company's own investigation has faulted employees for failing to spot danger signs before the disastrous blowout of a well in the Gulf of Mexico. Bloomberg News, citing an unidentified source, reported that BP's investigation determined that some of its employees misread pressure data from the Macondo well hours before it blew out on April 20...

BP said on May 24 that the pressure tests conducted by the drilling team as it worked to seal the well were among the issues under investigation. Bloomberg quoted its source as saying the report concluded that BP managers aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig concluded that the pressure test confirmed that the well was in good shape.

John Guide, BP's wells team leader, told U.S. investigators on July 22 that employees of Transocean, the rig owner contracted by BP, were also reviewing the data in the hours before the blowout. Guide quoted a BP colleague as saying the Transocean employees had noted the anomalous test results but said they had seen similar results in the past which did not indicate a problem.

An expert witness who testified to the same U.S. Coast Guard-Department of the Interior panel on July 23 said the tests had not been satisfactory. "None of the four tests were an acceptable test," said John Smith, an oil industry veteran who is now associate professor of petroleum engineering at Louisiana State University. Asked whether the tests were completed in an acceptable manner, Smith said, "No."

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2010-08-30-bp-report_N.htm

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We at the top do nothing wrong and only worry about the safety of our workers and this great environment.

No cost is too great to protect everyone.
The 11 people that died are at fault.

Getting real tired of the top people blaming everyone except themselves. Most be nice to be perfect.

A corporation only acts through the actions of their employees. If BP says their employee screwed up then that means BP screwed up. Respondeat superior and all that whatnot.

A real cover-up would have blamed an act of god or transocean or Halliburton.

in a world inhabited by Glenn Beck and Darth Cheney?

"We're perfect, it's the other guy at fault" just doesn't cut it anymore from the top honchos.

And "some of its employees misread pressure data from the Macondo well hours before it blew out on April 20" is no excuse. For an operation like this with a well that was issuing plenty of warning signs, there should have been some quality control for pressure readings.

As for registered-offshore-so-we-don't-have-to-pay-US-taxes Transocean, "similar results in the past which did not indicate a problem" is another piss-poor excuse. Translation: "We dodged bullets before so we thought we could dodge this one," is not exactly putting safety first.

Basically, we know what happened. These corpos, who pay as little tax as they can get away with, are at fault from the top-down. Safety and security are secondary to bigger and bigger profits that are obscene, esp. given that they put almost none of that money into safety and cleanup r&d. :puke:

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Blame the dead people that you were supposed to protect. What a bunch of scumbags. This is so obvious and gets at the core of what is wrong with this Country. This legal posturing is bullshit. Obama has left the building. Fuck Obama. I'm done with that Corporate Whore.

They can't defend themselves and BP's history of safety violations likely won't even get figured in.

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