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There have also been some reports from survivors of the rig explosion that BP was ordering them to cut corners.

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19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

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Yeah, I read that. Can someone please enlighten me as to what this legal authority the WH claims it has to remove the claims process from BP and manage it independently?

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And that's pretty much a load of hokum.

In an e-mail written six days before the Deepwater Horizon explosion, a BP engineer called the well a “nightmare.” The e-mail was released Monday by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and it’s one of many company documents describing the risky, cost-cutting decisions that preceded the disaster.

“This has been a nightmare well which has everyone all over the place,” wrote BP engineer Brian Morel to a colleague. Morel wanted the company to use a “liner,” or sheath around the well that would keep gas from surging up the pipes and possibly exploding.

One such surge caused the Deepwater Horizon to temporarily shut down in early April, but BP opted against installing the liner, which would have cost an extra $7 million to $10 million.

“BP appears to have made multiple decisions for economic reasons that increased the danger of a catastrophic well failure,” wrote committee chairs Henry Waxman (D-California) and Bart Stupak (D-Michigan) in a letter to BP CEO Tony Hayward. “In several instances, these decisions appear to violate industry guidelines and were made despite warnings from BP’s own personnel and its contractors. In effect, it appears that BP repeatedly chose risky procedures in order to reduce costs and save time.”

In addition to BP’s decision not to use a liner, the committee’s letter describes four other examples of risky negligence.

Halliburton, the company responsible for cement in the well shaft, recommended using 21 “centralizers” to position the metal tube that ran down the center of the well. An off-center tube would cause cement to harden at different rates, producing gaps and channels that could weaken its structure and increase chances of failure. BP used just six centralizers.

A mid-April review of the well said “it is unlikely to be a successful cement job,” but BP declined to run a “cement bond log,” a day-long evaluation of the cement’s integrity. A crew that arrived expecting to perform the evaluation was sent home.

BP also failed to circulate muds that filled the well as it was drilled. That allowed mud that stayed on the bottom to absorb gas and debris, further weakening cement at the well’s base. BP then decided not to use a “lockdown sleeve,” which would have secured the top of the well, where it emerged from the seafloor.

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14. Test casing and blind shear rams (per APD requirements) while out of the hole
preparing lockdown sleeve equipment. (2500 psi wi 14 ppg mud)

Notes:
• Do NOT slow displacement rate other than directed.
• To have a greater chance to bump plug on float collar:
1. Caliper -20% of casing with Tri-Mic's to determine a more accurate
10. (Do NOT use mill or book specs.)
2. Calculate mud compressibility based on actual conditions.
3. Factor in rig pump efficiency.
• Whenever you attempt to wash-down, you have a greater chance of
sticking subsea casing with additional ECD or creating a packing off
problem due to cuttings bed you are pushing.• When closing diverter sub, pipe should be moving at all times.
• After closing diverter tool, go back to circulating slowly (no more than 15
SPM) and start washing to bottom immediately.
• If you plan on using boost line prior to landing hanger, do NOT drop ball
early. Circulate through diverter prior to dropping ball. (This prevents
debris from plugging diverter sub and causing high shear out pressures.)
• All pup joints and cross-overs must be free of "bore-backs" or square
shoulders (less than 1/8" transition) and must have high angle tapers to
the ID from the root thread in the box. Tapers should be at least 30
degrees. *Special attention should be given to the TIW valve below the
Cement head. This is to prevent hanging-up the DP dart during
displacement. A Teflon bushing on top of the valve assembly will help
transition the dart cleanly.

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Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Arathain:

People are blaming BP without acknowledging the fact that, as Ladas notes, the platform was operated by a contractor. If the contractor failed to operate using documented and approved specifications, the situation is such that verifying their failure to operate as such is 1) difficult and 2) not BP's fault in the sense everyone is trying to make it.

You are saying that the accusation that BP cut corners is "hokum". You don't know this any more than others know they did cut corners.

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Actually, I pretty much do. I've done a ton of research on the matter. I've gone through the publicly available documents on the issue. I've reviewed the drilling permits and approvals that are readily available. I've looked at the financial statements regarding the platform and BP. BP did its due diligence. All this witch hunt really IS boils down to Americans wanting to punish someone for a bad outcome.

LOL. You actually think that this is something that you can do with any degree of confidence from an "armchair"?

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It's certainly a hell of a lot more credible than some anonymous poster on a forum on the internet.

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