That looks like a pretty good summary. I can’t believe that no one noticed that the well was flowing.
You know as well as I that they did notice, but the wrong people ( money people) made decisions instead of the drilling folks.
I made my coins in the oil industry and most of my friends make their coins in the oil industry. Thanks to BP's greediness the oil industry is badly damaged now.
Friends in the industry are looking at large layoffs in the very near future. A relative has already had his hours cut and is looking at a layoff.
Oilfield workers are now in the same shape as fishermen, shrimpers and oyster men. They may be in worst shape because the only thing they will get is being laid off.
Another thing that pi$$es me off is the rumor being circulated that the current state of the art in the industry can't handle drilling a well like this. This is pure BS. The technology available was NOT used because of BP greed. This would have never happened if proper procedure was used.
How to stop this sort of thing in the future:
1. Make BP pay for every damn thing they have caused, even if they go broke.
2. Whoever made the bad decisions in BP goes to jail (and I don't mean some low level scapegoat).
3. Whoever in the government MM division that allowed BP to use bad procedures goes to jail.
Believe me if you have a major oil company going broke or nearly going broke and the clowns that made the bad decisions (higher ups with BP and the government) going to jail, this will not happen again. Fear alone will cause the industry to correct itself, not Obummer stopping drilling and trying to pass a thousand pages of redtape mostly useless laws.
Thanks to BP greed and the idiot commie Kenyan in the White Hut, the country will be entering a 9 line energy bind very quickly.
Rant over ;^)