Posted on 12/12/2010 1:57:46 PM PST by Hojczyk
An inquiry was completed in August 2010, but the report has only now been released along with the Government's response. This post provides a summary of the incident and findings, primarily based on the Inquiry's Report.
Despite the fact that the Halliburton cementing report clearly showed that the casing shoe could not be regarded as having barrier integrity, the report was ‘signed off’ by Mr Treasure (PTTEPAA’s senior on‐rig representative) later in the evening on 7 March 2009, with a handwritten annotation ‘good job well done’.
The extraordinariness of this state of affairs need not be laboured. It suffices to reproduce the following evidence given by Mr Treasure.
Q. To someone who’s familiar with this document, it’s not a matter of missing the words. I want to put to you that a person who would ordinarily see this document would know, without a second glance, that this was not a normal situation; correct? A. Yes, sir. Q. That there had been a problem experienced; correct? A. Yes. Q. And that that problem hadn’t been resolved; correct? A. Yes, sir. Q. So in this document was all the information, I want to put to you, that anyone in your position needed to realise that a problem had occurred and had not been resolved; correct? A. Correct. Q. In the clearest of terms; correct? A. It was obvious, yes. Q. Well, it can’t be any clearer. What else do you think Mr Doeg (Halliburton) should have done to make it clearer to you? A. There’s nothing else he could do, is there?
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Looks like we need at least two people to sign off on this cementing...
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