[muawiyah]

It had nothing to do with rushing to complete the job. The whole issue with BP concerns the "brown mud". Environmental crazoids and their running dog lackeys have been driving BP crazy with lawsuits and complaints to EPA about their having pumped up "brown mud" tainted with oil.

That's exactly what was going on at this site. BP pumped the "brown mud" out of the space being filled with concrete ~ before the concrete had hardened (and been tested) they removed the rest of the "brown mud" and replaced it with sea water.

The topic is so easy to find on the internet I can't imagine why no one has connected the dots.

The Environmental crazoids want BP to seal new oil wells without the use of "brown mud", or to get it out of the pipes before it contacts oil.

BP doesn't want to do that but some of those 700 EPA and OSHA violations involve use of "brown mud" in a manner not satisfying to the environmentalists.

Look for this name: "Chuck Hamel".

That'll get you started and all at once you will understand what BP's eyewitnesses saw, and what they were talking about. This is real stuff, not imputed intent.

BTW, using "brown mud" is the safe way to facilitate the sealing of a new well before production. It appears to have upset the workers to find their management, BP, trying to suck out the "brown mud" and replace it with seawater while the cement cured ~ which, of course, is the way the environmentalists and the union want it done.

I am absolutely amazed that workers on the site disagree with the union, but I am not at all amazed to find the union demanding or supporting procedures that make a job site less safe. I tell you, the unions involved in the oil industry are TOTALLY CORRUPT.

[wiggen]

I’ve read this as well. The issue with the mud is being heavier its more resistant to the pressure from beneath. The water wasn’t heavy enough and this disaster is the result.

[TigersEye]

Good post! IOWs the eco-wackos, with the help of eco-wacko government agencies, don't want a couple hundred gallons of oil to escape into the sea so they have backed the oil drillers into a corner forcing them to take risks they don't need to. Thanks to them there are 11 dead workers and a monster well blow out.

Does that about sum it up?

[Tunehead54]

Reference bump! Thanks - I read similar accounts in the first week - now its “Gee, wonder what happened?” by the presstitutes and Congress in general ... sigh.

[driftdiver]

“It had nothing to do with rushing to complete the job. “

The reason they weren’t following protocol is because they were behind. They reported major problems with the well a month before the explosion.

Sure the environmentalists greatly complicate energy production of all types. Sure unions are corrupt.

BP was cutting corners to save money.