The hearings into the Deepwater Horizon blowout has listened to some more than a little damning evidence that the decision making process was more than a little flawed during those last hours before the explosion. A couple for excerpts from the NOLA.com account:
1) Chief Mechanic onboard recounted his recollection of an argument/disagreement during an 11am briefing where BP personnel overruled the other members of the drilling team regarding the displacement of drilling mud with seawater.
2) Expert witness and ship captain commented that monitoring the drill mud and volumes is a critical part of well control procedures.
3) a BP personnel takes the fifth and will not testify.
4) Some details regarding the redeployment of the rig to anotehr location, and the current schedule being behind, suggest that BP might have been of the mindset to cut costs with the rig's running charges approximated at $500k/d
Oil spill hearings: Panel's chairman harangues surveyor
By David Hammer, The Times-Picayune
May 26, 2010, 4:54PM
This is an update from the joint U.S. Coast Guard and Minerals Management Service hearings in Kenner on Wednesday into the explosion and fire aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 20, which killed 11 workers and created the Gulf of Mexico oil spill currently fouling Louisiana's coast. David McKay, a surveyor from Det Norske Veritas, performed two... Full story »
Oil spill hearings: BP was under economic pressure to finish job
By David Hammer, The Times-Picayune
May 26, 2010, 5:44PM
This is an update from the joint U.S. Coast Guard and Minerals Management Service hearings in Kenner on Wednesday into the explosion and fire aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 20, which killed 11 workers and created the Gulf of Mexico oil spill currently fouling Louisiana's coast. A member of the federal panel investigating why the Deepwater... Full story »
Oil spill hearings: BP man on Deepwater Horizon rig refuses to testify, says he will take the Fifth
By David Hammer, The Times-Picayune
May 26, 2010, 6:34PM
This is an update from the joint U.S. Coast Guard and Minerals Management Service hearings in Kenner on Wednesday into the explosion and fire aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 20, which killed 11 workers and created the Gulf of Mexico oil spill currently fouling Louisiana's coast. One of BP's company men on the Deepwater Horizon when... Full story »
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