So what does the media dwell on?
The BP executive going to see his yacht in a race.
Never mind that Obama does NOTHING.
Never mind that a barabque, parties and a vacation are more important. When he finally sobered up, he realized he had another opportunity to extort money from BP. BTW, we REJECT other countries with experience to help U.S.. Obama sat o his hands. It's pitiful and unacceptable.
FRANK PATTON MMS
do some searching and reading
“On March 10, BP executive Scherie Douglas e-mailed Frank Patton, the mineral service’s drilling engineer for the New Orleans district, telling him: “We’re in the midst of a well control situation”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-17/bp-struggled-with-cracks-in-gulf-well-as-early-as-february-documents-show.html
“Under scrutiny from officials in his own agency, the local Minerals Management Service engineer who approved BP’s application to drill under the DeepwaterHorizon admitted that he approved the blowout preventer that failed tostop the Gulf of Mexico oil spill without assurances that its last-ditch mechanism would work on the drill pipe the company was using.
Jason Mathews, an MMS official who sits on the six-member joint Coast Guard and MMS investigative board, questioned Frank Patton, the agency’s New Orleans District drilling engineer, about his approval ofBP’s drilling permit.
Mathews noted that MMS regulation 250.416(e)requires would-be drillers to submit proof that the blowout preventerthey are using to shut off the well will have enough power to shear adrill pipe in case of an emergency.
Those mechanisms on the 450-ton blowout preventer at the bottom ofthe seabed are called blind shear rams, a pair of high-pressure valvesand blades that are supposed to slice through a gushing drill pipe andclose off a well leak. But attempts to get those shear rams to operateon the well below the Deepwater Horizon have been unsuccessful sincethe April 20 disaster.
Patton testified he was not aware of any such requirement and never demands it from more than 100 applications his office reviews each year.
“I have never been told to look for this statement,” Patton said.The BP application had “no information on blind shear rams’ ability to shear the drill pipe used.”
“If they didn’t submit it, why did we approve it?” Mathews asked.
“That is one thing I don’t look for in my approval process,” Patton said. “I’ve never looked for that statement there.”
“Is this just you, or is this MMS-wide? “ Mathews persisted.
“I’m not sure,” Patton said sheepishly
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/updates_from_oil_rig_explosion.html