[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[dalebert]

ping

[jonrick46]

Here is a drawing that shows a good picture of what may have gone wrong with Deepwater Horizon:

[1066AD]

Bloomberg reports the well started giving trouble in February and that MMS was fully aware.

P.S. BP’s Hayward sold a bunch of BP stock mid March.

[Domangart]

175,000 lbs of pressure is a bitch.

[Bender2]

The NYT saying "It also shows that the Obama administration failed to grapple with either the well-known weaknesses of blowout preventers or the sufficiency of the nation’s drilling regulations even as it made plans this spring to expand offshore oil exploration."

Gadzooks! Is... freezing over?

[allmost]

The story and numbers will change within a week or two. As they have previously.

[mo]

i’m goin’ out on a limb here...but I don’t think modern administrators have enough reality grounding to attempt or supervise complicated projects. Their illusions interfere with reality.