Actually, my point was, that with those type of guys talking to each other or to suits, I don’t expect it would be much different, and probably would be very different from the ‘genteel” discussions at newsrooms.
I think it will come out that BP was tired of losing 500,000 dollars a day, and after losing one bore hole and starting over with a second one, they said, DO IT NOW OR ELSE!
My understanding is that a squad of high ranking BP “suits” flew out just to make that ultimatum, and make it stick, basically steamrolling the lower-ranking guys from the contractor on the rig.