Criminal probe of oil spill to focus on 3 firms and their ties to regulators
A team of federal investigators known as the "BP squad" is assembling in New Orleans to conduct a wide-ranging criminal probe that will focus on at least three companies and examine whether their cozy relations with federal regulators contributed to the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, according to law enforcement and other sources.
The squad at the FBI offices includes investigators from the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Coast Guard and other federal agencies, the sources said. In addition to BP, the firms at the center of the inquiry are Transocean, which leased the Deepwater Horizon rig to BP, and engineering giant Halliburton, which had finished cementing the well only 20 hours before the rig exploded April 20, sources said.
While it was known that investigators are examining potential violations of environmental laws, it is now clear that they are also looking into whether company officials made false statements to regulators, obstructed justice or falsified test results for devices such as the rig's failed blowout preventer. It is unclear whether any such evidence has surfaced.
Criminal Probe of 3 firms?
Obozo’s real intent is to justify shut-down and nationalization of the oil industry, like all Marxist/Commie/Dictators. They create nothing only steal and destroy. Their worst destruction is that of the Human Will.
I figure you saw the image with the two (apparently) cut off sections of drill pipe in the riser. No BOP will shear or seal around two joints of drill pipe in the hole. That may be a moot point entirely.
Were they still displacing or were they tripping out when it blew?