“He said that he did not feel pressured to rush the completion of the well, even though the rig had fallen behind schedule.”
Thats a lie.
Does this guy sound like an ambulance chaser or what??
It’s gonna be quite the inquest. Books will be written, documentaries and movies will be made. It will make “The Caine Mutiny” look like a tea parlor drama.
Question everything.
I don’t usually get my news from Mother Jones Magazine, but I think this story is true. I think that BP forced the well workers to speed things up and take shortcuts, to save a few days, and the result was that it blew up.
We’ve heard this story several times now. As you will note, the guy who said this now denies it. Of course he does. He doesn’t want to have BP, Obama, and the Chicago Mafia come down on him.
But I think it’s true. BP has a reputation as a company that takes dangerous shortcuts. And I think that’s exactly what they did. Some jackass from HQ told them, according to another account, “Do it my way, or else.” Now we’ve seen what the result of THAT was.
Don’t be fooled into thinking that Obama and BP are on opposite sides. Obama is in bed with BP, and just pretending to be angry with them. It’s one of the reasons why he has sat there and done nothing.
It was BP who was making the command decisions on that platform and it us BP’s fault that the they lost the well and murdered 11 men.
but I really think that folks will lie their butt off after they lose someone...simply because it doesn't matter at that point and survival (money) is most important.
Here’s the prob: this guy who is named and quoted would be covered under attorney privilege, so this attorney would be sued out of business unless this guy WANTED to get this quote out. So there could be an ulterior motive for this guy who is blaming his bosses and saying he predicted this, to get the quote into the “media” (Mother Jones).
The F bomb is still on the front selection page.
Sheese
One of the first guys to jump of the platform when things blew, lives about 15 miles from me. Young guy in his mid-20’s. I’d love to pick his brain about what he knows, but he’s probably all lawyered up by now and won’t discuss it.
Something tells me Mr. Buzbee has only the truth in mind here.
Fortunately, I never worked in an industry where so much was at stake because the corner cutting oblivious to risk managers I’ve been around would have created a calamity.
I’d love to see the phone records of the guy that was yelling into the phone on the night in question. I’m sure some lawyers already have them.
LOL!!
Tony Buzbee, what a name!!!
Do be a do bee, don’t be a don’t bee!!!!!
sigh,
...now back to the continuing seriousness of this unfolding implosion of the clueless Zero.
It doesnt say it but we all know Harrell was talking to GW Bush
I just wonder who’s bright idea it was to sink the rig? It would not be leaking like it is if the rig had not been sunk. I mean think about it, you don’t put a fire out on a boat by sinking it it is the same with a rig. Whoever responded to the fire scr*ed the pooch royally!
There is indication that there were disputes over procedures on the Deepwater Horizon hours before the explosion. The disagreement was between employees of rig operator Transocean Ltd. and oil giant BP PLC. Deepwater Horizon drilling crews had fought a multitude of troubles from this well for months. One thing was the alarming gas pressures coming out of this well.
Key representatives from both companies had a heated argument in an 11 a.m. meeting on April 20. Less than 11 hours before the platform exploded. It ultimately ended with a BP official deciding to remove heavy drilling fluid from the well and replacing it with lighter-weight seawater that was unable to prevent gas from surging to the surface and exploding.
Employees and experts testified that in the hours before the explosion, they witnessed a power struggle over that decision. It was typically the kind of argument among the different parties that lease and run complicated offshore drilling operations, but this time it had deadly consequences.
One employee who worked for the rig owner, Transocean, was so mad after the fight he warned they’d be relying on the rig’s blowout preventer if they proceeded the way BP wanted.
“He pretty much grumbled, ‘Well, I guess that’s what we have those pinchers for,’” the rig’s chief mechanic, Doug Brown, said of Jimmy Harrell, the top Transocean official on the rig. “Pinchers” was likely Harrell’s reference to the shear rams in the blowout preventers, the final means of stopping an explosion.
sfl