[driftdiver]

“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.

[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.

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

Agree.

There’s always pressure. There is even pressure to get it done early. There’s all kinds of pressure. It’s the nature of the job and people who can’t take it have no business being involved.

Before this is all over I think we’ll find that inexperienced people were at high levels making decisions they were not qualified to make. Some idiot somewhere thought it was “worth the risk” because they were going through a million dollars a day.

I’ve seen several companies try to take on a “silicon valley” type mentality by recruiting and promoting people who feel no boundaries. The problem is that act is no good in the face of reality.

Hopefully some heavy industries will learn from this. The cynic in me thinks this not.