The BBC's Iain Mackenzie said the report is "incredibly critical" of all of the companies involved.
The companies involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill made decisions to cut costs and save time that contributed to the disaster, a US panel has concluded.
In a chapter of its final report, to be published next week, the presidential commission said the failures were "systemic" and likely to recur...
BP said in a statement that the report, like its own investigation, had found the accident was the result of multiple causes, involving multiple companies.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12124830Halliburton was "fully indemnified" in the catastrophic event, although the company acknowledged that it completed cementing the base of the oil well and pipe a mere 20 hours before the blowout. The U.S. Minerals Management Service reports that cementing is the single most important factor in 18 of 39 well blowouts in the Gulf of Mexico over a 14-year period.
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