Yeah, this reeks of opportunism. The easiest guess is the BP did it to itself to keep oil prices high. Or the cfr globalists arranged for this to happen for similar reasons. High oil/gasoline prices are also a form of control on the unwashed masses. This might give the enviro-whackos enough to kill offshore drilling but there is still enough oil deep underground on shore right here in the USA (ANWR) to drop the cost of a gallon of gas to about .50 a gallon. IF we can get our ability to refine up to handle a dramatic increase in supplies. That'll be tough. There hasn't been a new refinery built in this country since 1975.
So BP burns down millions of dollars of Transocean property with Transocean watching?? Sorry that's nuts!
BP will have had $30-40-50 million in that well when they lost it. NOBODY does stuff like that in the patch anyway; this is all serious damned money, and everyone is trying to make his division or his company pay off at the end of the year. The bottom line is the bottom line!
These are horrendously expensive enterprises and take years to bring to fruition. Every project is like rolling a big rock uphill and involves scores of people. People don't play around with this stuff, and any rig fire is a damned serious business.
Trying to see a political dimension in something like this is a major mistake. The politicking will all be in DC, where the dildo-heads dwell.