Anyone watch 60 Minutes last night?
Seems that there were MANY things that went wrong. The actuator was torn up, the blowout preventer was faulty, and the battery for the thing was only at 1/2 power.
Combine that with the fact that they told them to pull out the drilling mud FIRST and then run the tests, well.......that combined with the previous stuff led to this disaster.
Interestingly enough, the reason the mud was pulled out before testing the blowout preventers was because it was faster. I guess the BP execs wanted to seal the well quick so that they could have their 7 years without an accident ceremony and be on their way.
The guy they interviewed (who was in the middle of the shit when it hit the fan and one of the last ones off the rig), said that when the actuator rubber pieces were brought to their attention, they were told to not worry about it, it was okay.
Then, when they were going to test then pull out the mud (according to the interviewee), he stated that it was a BP executive who gave the order to pull the mud out first, then test, because the drillers wanted to do it with the mud still in, as it was a safety measure.
Nope, BP, Trans Oceanic and Halliburton all contributed equally to this major league fiasco, all should pay for it equally, 1/3 EACH.
Hopefully all of them will go out of business, we don't need shitty workmanship like this doing dangerous stuff like that.
As far as the Cali Twit publishing argument?
Well, she's stated she's published, but didn't say how. Si Moron also stated that she's read some of Cali Twit's stuff, which is supposedly for a very select audience who is all in contact with each other.
Wanna know where she's "published"? As the subject of an ongoing study of mental illness. Apparently Si Moron is in the same test group.
Or......it could be she's "published" by that famous company......you know.......USMB Random House?
