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BP disaster started in February?
Hot Air ^ | June 19, 2010 | ED MORRISSEY

Posted on 06/19/2010 12:26:08 PM PDT by kara2008

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To: kara2008

bumpety bump


161 posted on 06/21/2010 3:33:20 AM PDT by silverleaf (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
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To: kara2008; All

FRANK PATTON

do some searching on this name- very interesting stuff
This was the MMS regulator in charge of signing off on the BP well safety

I missed seeing him before Congress, where the only name the press seems ot report is “Tony Hayward”

Interesting reading, in retrospect
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/updates_from_oil_rig_explosion.html

from Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-17/bp-struggled-with-cracks-in-gulf-well-as-early-as-february-documents-show.html


162 posted on 06/21/2010 3:46:14 AM PDT by silverleaf (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
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To: nmh

FRANK PATTON MMS

do some searching and reading

“On March 10, BP executive Scherie Douglas e-mailed Frank Patton, the mineral service’s drilling engineer for the New Orleans district, telling him: “We’re in the midst of a well control situation”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-17/bp-struggled-with-cracks-in-gulf-well-as-early-as-february-documents-show.html

“Under scrutiny from officials in his own agency, the local Minerals Management Service engineer who approved BP’s application to drill under the DeepwaterHorizon admitted that he approved the blowout preventer that failed tostop the Gulf of Mexico oil spill without assurances that its last-ditch mechanism would work on the drill pipe the company was using.

Jason Mathews, an MMS official who sits on the six-member joint Coast Guard and MMS investigative board, questioned Frank Patton, the agency’s New Orleans District drilling engineer, about his approval ofBP’s drilling permit.

Mathews noted that MMS regulation 250.416(e)requires would-be drillers to submit proof that the blowout preventerthey are using to shut off the well will have enough power to shear adrill pipe in case of an emergency.

Those mechanisms on the 450-ton blowout preventer at the bottom ofthe seabed are called blind shear rams, a pair of high-pressure valvesand blades that are supposed to slice through a gushing drill pipe andclose off a well leak. But attempts to get those shear rams to operateon the well below the Deepwater Horizon have been unsuccessful sincethe April 20 disaster.

Patton testified he was not aware of any such requirement and never demands it from more than 100 applications his office reviews each year.

“I have never been told to look for this statement,” Patton said.The BP application had “no information on blind shear rams’ ability to shear the drill pipe used.”

“If they didn’t submit it, why did we approve it?” Mathews asked.

“That is one thing I don’t look for in my approval process,” Patton said. “I’ve never looked for that statement there.”

“Is this just you, or is this MMS-wide? “ Mathews persisted.

“I’m not sure,” Patton said sheepishly
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/updates_from_oil_rig_explosion.html


163 posted on 06/21/2010 3:51:01 AM PDT by silverleaf (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
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To: kara2008

http://www.mms.gov/assets/Video/NEWVideo/FinalTranscript.pdf

moe interesting notes from MMS 2007

also apparently FRANK PATTON the MMS bureacrat who signed off on BP’s well safety plan and design - is an UNLICENSED
“engineer”
http://www.whistleblowersblog.org/2010/06/articles/whistleblowers-government-empl/the-role-of-federal-employee-whistleblowers-in-protecting-public-heath-and-safety/

FRAK PATTON, MMS Inspector- who NEVER VISITED A RIG to inspect a BOP he was in charge of approving
http://www.pakistannews.net/story/633951


164 posted on 06/21/2010 4:10:53 AM PDT by silverleaf (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
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To: devere

Note that obama is trying to cover all the bases. He had the families of the victims to the wh. Probably reassured them that bp would pay. There will be no investigation unless some enterprising journalist steps up on what is probably one of the biggest political scandals of our time.


165 posted on 06/21/2010 4:54:01 AM PDT by jersey117
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KaPow Bump


166 posted on 06/21/2010 7:44:08 AM PDT by XHogPilot (A thief might rob you, but politicians can rob your family for countless generations.)
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To: chris_bdba; driftdiver
So MMSknew there were big problems and allowed them to continue? To me this places the blame more on what the federal government did not do to keep this from happening.

Agreed!
167 posted on 06/21/2010 8:20:46 AM PDT by Canedawg (The West is the best.)
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To: kara2008

Bump this, and I’ll keep bumping. Isn’t it amazing how the stories which are #8 on the earthquake scale go unreported.


168 posted on 06/21/2010 8:26:07 AM PDT by Mamzelle (Cameras, cameras--never forget to bring your cameras)
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To: hennie pennie

Cuba and North Korea were not involved in this disaster in any way.

If this administration wants to prevent future oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico, all they have to do is revoke BP’s leases and kick BP out of the gulf. There’s absolutely no need for this moratorium on deepwater drilling. That’s only going to cut US oil production in the rest of this decade and make us even more dependent on imported oil. The moratorium on deepwater drilling should be lifted immediately before we lose the best deepwater rigs to Brazil and West Africa.

To become less dependent on imported oil, the US should also start a program to support the use of compressed natural gas in diesel engines instead of diesel fuel, in situations where this replacement makes sense.


169 posted on 06/21/2010 8:56:49 AM PDT by socialism_stinX (He didn't invent fresh brewed coffee, but he perfected the art of sipping it during tennis warm-up.)
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Cuba preparing for possible arrival of oil spill - Yahoo! News ---------------------------------------------- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100615/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_gulf_oil_spill_cuba
By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press Writer
Andrea Rodriguez, Associated Press Writer
Tue Jun 15, 2:33 pm ET

HAVANA - - Cuba's civil defense chief said Tuesday that authorities are preparing coastal residents for the oil spill fouling the Gulf......

170 posted on 06/21/2010 9:00:24 AM PDT by hennie pennie
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To: HoustonCurmudgeon; Bigun

Have been out of pocket all weekend - did y’all see this?


171 posted on 06/21/2010 9:47:38 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Yes, Chef!)
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To: Xenalyte
Xena, I saw it but from the very first day's we knew there had been well control problems up the hole. Many wells need repeated squeeze jobs and I just don't see much different here, save the inaction of MMS.
172 posted on 06/21/2010 10:01:37 AM PDT by HoustonCurmudgeon ("I'll try to be NICER, if you will try to be SMARTER!" ~ MNJohnnie, FReeper)
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To: kara2008

As always, follow the money


173 posted on 06/21/2010 10:28:37 AM PDT by PMAS
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To: SoCalConstitutionalist

Wrong. It does not “explain the suspicious action.” Selling stock in and of itself is not suspicious. What it does is RENDER the action suspicious.


174 posted on 06/21/2010 11:23:29 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Yes, Chef!)
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To: UCANSEE2

Epitomizes the whole:

“The best made plans of mice and men,
Most often go awry,
Leaving them in pain and agony”

He’s currently suffering pain and agony in his popularity ratings.


175 posted on 06/21/2010 11:31:14 AM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: kara2008

What did the Obama administration know, and when did they know it?


176 posted on 06/21/2010 11:35:45 AM PDT by XHogPilot (A thief might rob you, but politicians can rob your family for countless generations.)
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To: hennie pennie

Selling stock? Nope, not illegal. I do it all the time.


177 posted on 06/21/2010 11:42:57 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Yes, Chef!)
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To: HoustonCurmudgeon; Allegra; humblegunner

PING to a good look at if MiaT were only restricted to posting letters instead of pictures.


178 posted on 06/21/2010 11:48:15 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Yes, Chef!)
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To: Star Traveler

Point of order: with more than 3,300 workers worldwide, Anadarko is hardly a small company.


179 posted on 06/21/2010 11:49:59 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Yes, Chef!)
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To: SierraWasp

>>I just LOVE your “islamabama” reference and wonder why he’s not living in Islamabad, instead of Warshington, D.C. <<

I think the “why” part is pretty simple ... he’s president of the United States, not Pakistan.


180 posted on 06/21/2010 11:51:19 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Yes, Chef!)
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