No arguments here. It was a systemic failure. But I doubt very seriously if the outsourcing of safety compliance reporting had anything to do with the DW Horizon/Macando incident. BP was primarily focused on personal safety instead of process safety. BP like many of the other producers had a poor process safety culture in their Wells group.And you believe this without a shred of evidence and you think YOU are being honest? Fuckin' vainglory.
Deepwater Horizon ... Chevron publically stated they use five concrete plugs in their sea floor test wells ... BP only uses one ...
You've told me to fuck off ... thank you ... that's as close as you'll ever admit you're wrong ... those tar sands ain't going anywhere, the longer we wait to exploit that resource, the smaller percentage of revenue will be needed to remediate the land afterwards ... simple economics ...
My youngest brother was called in after the fact to do an audit of BP's safety compliance on Deepwater Horizon.. What he found was that BP had subbed out safety compliance reporting to a variety of companies that did not communicate with each other.. In other words BP set it up that way for CYA... Further, BP has always been a shitty oil company for the past 70 years that has NO core values.
I do doubt it was set up that way for CYA though. I believe it had to do with poor understanding of risk and incompetence of leadership.