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To: okie01
At bottom, that's the only way blame can be assigned.

Actually, Transocean owns a piece, too -- it eventuated that their rig crew made some unauthorized field modifications to the controls of their blowout preventer stack and kill lines. They were not, as they say in the industry, "100% API" (American Petroleum Institute, i.e. "standard").

Halliburton may also own a sliver for selling BP a "magic" new cement formula which may have failed under testing conditions in the "Macondo" well.

71 posted on 06/18/2010 9:27:59 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus
Actually, Transocean owns a piece, too --

Perhaps. Fact is, we don't know. And won't know until all the facts come out.

In the meantime, BP bears the ultimate responsibility. Even though, in fact, it may bear none of the blame.

77 posted on 06/19/2010 10:34:40 AM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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