Related: Gulf Oil Overseer Sees Smoke From Pipe
Porn, Meth, and Oil Company Parties
Yeah, the AmeriKan MSM must have been smoking some because they have forgotten all about that.
"Federal inquiries on oil rig incidents spotty, review finds" by Marc Kaufman, Washington Post | July 19, 2010
WASHINGTON — A year and a day before BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, crew members on a neighboring oil rig found themselves bracing for their own potential disaster.
A dangerous gas bubble surged up a well pipe, and the blowout preventers hadn’t worked. The crew reported hearing a “deafening roar’’ as fluids shot up, knocking over huge metal equipment on the deck. Alarms sounded. Some workers ran to lifeboats, while others stayed behind to control the well.
The accident on the rig, leased by Louisiana Land Oil and Gas, was one of the 12,087 oil-related incidents in the gulf reported over the past five years to the federal Minerals Management Service — the now-revamped agency investigating the
What a bunch of LIES!!
Related:
"inspections usually consist of helicopter visits to offshore rigs to sift through company reports of self-administered tests.... inspectors spent two hours or less each time they visited the massive rig"
Looks as if the MMS didn't have much ability at all, huh?
In some cases, investigators ran their own tests, tracked down witnesses, and did complicated technical calculations. In others, they relied heavily on information and witness interviews provided by companies. Many inquiries resulted in small fines or none at all....
Yup, GOVERNMENT MALFEASANCE and INCOMPETENCE gets ONE WHOLE SENTENCE in this WaPo PoS!
Investigators asked to see a safety valve provided by a subcontractor,
I'm finding it hard to continue reading this stuff.
So Halliburton and the oil companies dictate to this government, which in turn covers up for them.
The inquiry concluded that no rules had been broken, no fines were warranted, and the agency’s response should be to alert the industry to potential risks. Barkoff noted that “some accidents are just that: accidents that involve no wrongdoing or criminal or negligent behavior.’’
After GOVERNMENT WAIVED ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS and WORKERS REPORTED NEGLIGENCE, WILLFUL IGNORANCE, and PROBLEMS with the WELL MONTHS BEFORE!!
The team looking into that case was led by Frank Patton, a veteran investigator also responsible for monitoring the Deepwater Horizon rig. In recent weeks, Patton has testified that he approved a BP drilling plan that other oil companies and drilling specialists have said was deeply flawed....
Yeah, but LET'S NOT SPEND ANY TIME INVESTIGATING THAT either, 'eh, WaPo?
What a PoS paper they are!!!
After their safety records were considered spotless?
"Safety record ‘lulled’ US regulators; Ex-Interior chiefs testify in Congress" by Matthew Daly, Associated Press | July 21, 2010
WASHINGTON — Two former Interior secretaries told Congress yesterday they did not anticipate an accident as large as the
But Gale Norton and Dirk Kempthorne say no one else did either — including members of Congress who are now blaming the Bush administration for failing to prevent the tragedy....
Related: BP Bought Congress
The same way they bought Obama.
Before the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded April 20, killing 11 men, “there was a 40-year record of environmental protection in offshore drilling,’’ Kempthorne said. Since the 1969 oil spill near Santa Barbara, Calif., natural cracks in the sea floor had caused oil seeps larger than oil spilled due to offshore drilling, he said.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who took office in January 2009, acknowledged that long safety record and said he and other members of the Obama administration “were lulled into a sense of safety’’ that proved to be false....
So much so the administration waived environmental regulations that would have prevented this.
Can you say failed presidency, America?
Representative Henry Waxman, Democrat of California and chairman of the Energy and Commerce panel, said the Interior Department made serious mistakes under both President Bush and President Obama.
“The cop on the beat was off-duty for nearly a decade. And this gave rise to a culture of permissiveness,’’ Waxman said....
At the very least!!
Here, your hit! I want to watch this sex scene on my government computer.
In implementing Bush’s goal to expedite production, Norton failed to resolve questions about the adequacy of blowout preventers to contain spills, investigators said in a memorandum to the committee. The blowout preventer at BP’s well failed to shut off the flow of oil after the explosion.
Did Bush ever luck out, huh? He only got a hurricane.
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Yeah, government and industry are doing a great job!
