BP Lies?
Once again BP has had to admit it has been lying to the public, as the Pensacola News Journal reports: Oil spill: BP reverses, admits there’s oil in local waters
Despite persistent denials from BP last week, thousands of pounds of weathered oil is being pulled from under the surface of Pensacola Bay every day.
During more than a dozen interviews last week, BP officials and spokespeople for a number of government agencies working on the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill response denied knowledge of oil in the bay.
Even as they spoke, however, Escambia County officials and local fishermen were reporting finding weathered oil, as they’ve been doing for weeks. BP’s own crews were hand-scooping it up, and a submerged-oil team from BP’s Deepwater Horizon Response Incident Command Post in Mobile was investigating.
“BP says it’s all gone, but it’s not. I’ve known it was out there for a month,” said a commercial fisherman who asked not to be identified because he is working for BP in the cleanup and feared losing his job.
It’s bad enough that corporations lie to the public, but the Obama administration meekly follows their lead and backs up what ever fantasy BP is trying to sell. People along the coast know there is oil on the bottom just off shore, and we knew before the research ships came upon it. There are fishermen, surfers, and scuba divers all reporting that the oil is there. If you wade out into the Gulf deep enough you will step in it.
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If you can manage it, you might want to get a dictionary and look up the meaning of “to lie”, because you obviously don’t know, just as you obviously don’t know anything about oil drilling, or the two incidents you cite.
Your education is stunted by reading the fairy tales published in the News Corp. tabloids, like the Wall Street Journal, which was once an honest source of information.
No, Mr. Duff, I mean they never lied about it. Both of these “revelations” have been known for months.
BP screwed up the cement job when they started withdrawing mud from the well only twelve hours after the cement was poured, It takes 48 to 72 hours for the cement to cure to full strength. If you walk on a sidewalk that soon you will leave foot prints.
The BOP wasn’t certified because BP insisted that it be shipped to China for reconditioning, and the Mineral Management Service doesn’t have any inspectors in China. If it had been reconditioned in Houston, as Transocean had planned, it would have been recertified as part of the reconditioning, and might not have failed.
I have covered both issues here, but you expect to be spoon-fed by people, instead of doing your own research, just like News Corps and their minions.
Why would Transocean bother. Those are facts that are contained in the documents the accident investigation board already has, and BP is just attempting a PR move. There are no “points” in an accident investigation board, no matter what delusional News Corp reporters may think.
The cementing operation was successful as far as anyone could tell. The cement can’t take pressure until it is cured, and BP made the decision not to wait for the curing to take place.
BP leased the rig. BP hired the contractors, BP made the decisions. It was BP’s well on BP’s lease and everyone was taking BP’s orders. That’s why BP is responsible.
They are recovering the blowout preventer and bringing it up for investigation. The investigation may find that it did work as designed. There is a known weakness with BOPs, they can’t shear a drilling pipe joint. If there is a joint inside the BOP, the valve rams can’t seal.
If the drilling mud hadn’t been pulled out before the cement set, it is very possible that there wouldn’t have been a blow-out and 11 people wouldn’t have died. By pulling the mud out early, Halliburton is clear of any responsibility. BP voided their “warranty’.
You claimed that Transocean and Halliburton lied, and provided no support for that claim. You keep cheerleading BP despite clear evidence that BP is at fault.
As for the failing of US regulators – well, when you have conservatives in charge regulators never do their job, so there’s no surprise there. With two oil guys in the White House, who would expect there to be any enforcement on the energy business?