Maybe BP should have spent less on the green ads.
Wonder if a crew change immediatly preceeded the blowout?
This is the type of thing what happens when people do drugs while on the job.
The administration brings in a Nobel laureat physicst?
Some how the “Nobel” label does not instill confidence. Did not Al Gore receive one of those for his big fraud?
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“Chu and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar met Wednesday with BP engineers and executives at BP’s Houston headquarters for a round of briefings that began at 6 a.m. At least some of the scientists, who include the director of Energy Department’s Sandia National Labs, were present for the meetings.”
“Chu, a Nobel laureate in physics...”
“Transocean, the owner of the blowout preventer and of the sunken Deepwater Horizon rig, said any alterations would have come at BP’s instigation; BP, which owns the well and hired Transocean to drill it, said it had never sought the changes.”
Who did it? Crime, Inc. (obama, chicago climate exchange, etc.) infiltrates and sabotages with this “alteration” to create this crisis and further the cause. Timing is curious.
There’s a little rule in submarines that you deliver the new drawings BEFORE the mod.
He said that any alteration to the blowout preventer would have required both BP and MMS approval.
That's what I would expect. All this finger-pointing is needless. Both companies were at fault if a safety device as complex as this was modified without detailed safety reviews. Both companies should have had the latest drawings. Both companies should have inspected the equipment before it was sent to the sea floor. Having a "test ram" in place instead of the ram that was supposed to be there is inexcusable.
1. BP appears to be claiming that some of the rams weren't in the BOP cavity where BP thought they were.
2. Trying to close the wrong ram caused a problem which either delayed or prevented kick control.
3. BP must have had their head in the sand or elsewhere when all of the testing of the stack went on during drilling.
4. Transocean hasn't sounded off on this excuse.
5. Moving rams from one cavity to another isn't something done in secret.
6. No one has mentioned trying to close one of the annular preventers.
7. I've not heard mention of a diverter system which would have directed the gas to the leeward side of the rig.
8. If a "gas bubble" suddenly appeared at the surface there must have been a lot of people asleep at the switch and alarm system not working.
9. Maybe some day we'll have a believable story about what happened.
I’ve spent my life as an electronic/electrical troubleshooter and have made it a policy that in troubleshooting a complex electronic, or electrical, industrial apparatus, if a single mistake between the schematic and physical wiring, or connections, is found, I refuse to go farther until I receive the correct schematic.
Differences prove the fact that the machine was altered or that the correct schematics were not supplied with the machine to begin with.
I’ve known idiots who try to troubleshoot industrial equipment with erroneous schematics simply because they contained some truthful information. What idiots!
In the oilfield and in industrial applications, many changes are physically made but no correction or updating of the schematics are done. Over a period of time, the equipment becomes impossible to troubleshoot.
Anyone, any company, and everyone involved in any modification of the equipment without updating the electrical schematics should be held responsible and prosecuted for the deed.
This is my “hot button” issue when it comes to unprofessional “engineers” and “jacklegs.”
For their stupidity and incompetence 11 people died and an untold amount of misery is heaped upon those affected.