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Barrett808 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 11:36 AM
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Crew argued over drilling plan before rig explosion
Source: Wall Street Journal

About 11 hours before the Deepwater Horizon exploded, a disagreement took place between the top manager for oil giant BP PLC on the drilling rig and his counterpart for the rig's owner, Transocean Ltd., concerning the final steps in shutting down the nearly completed well, according to a worker's sworn statement.

Michael Williams, a Transocean employee who was chief electronics technician on the rig, said there was "confusion" between those high-ranking officials in an 11 a.m. meeting on the day of the rig blast, according to a sworn statement from Mr. Williams reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Williams himself attended the meeting.


Read more: http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2010/05/crew-argued-over-drilling-plan-before.html
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benld74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 11:59 AM
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1. Other shoe dropping here, Wonder what argument was about, and who was right??
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 02:59 PM
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13. See this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8340018
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 04:06 PM
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18. Holy Shit, Batman!
This is bad.
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tinrobot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 04:39 PM
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19. Great reporting.
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wroberts189 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 07:18 PM
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23. Holy sheep dip! thx/nt
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tango-tee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 04:06 AM
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31. I've forwarded the info
Edited on Sun May-16-10 04:11 AM by tango-tee
to "Der Spiegel", a highly respected and widely read news magazine here in Germany. This horrible disaster means that we are witnessing the destruction of an entire eco-system. A way of life, a way to make a living will be gone. Animals and humans alike will be suffering for decades to come.

This needs to spread far and wide. We need to find out the truth.

I want to cry and choke the living shit out of those responsible for this tragedy at the same time.
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liberalla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 06:49 AM
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32. That's a good summation:
"I want to cry and choke the living shit out of those responsible for this tragedy at the same time."


I feel numb. From the day it happened, I have been preparing myself for when the whole truth is known. I have a creeping, sickening feeling that this is going to be far worse than what anyone is projecting (even now, 25 days into this disaster.)
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rschop Donating Member (493 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 06:44 PM
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22. Re; "Question about argument"
Edited on Sat May-15-10 06:56 PM by rschop
The disagreement was about completing a 300 foot cement cap at the bottom of the well "before" taking out the heavy mud and replacing this mud with sea water.

Had the well been properly capped with cement, gas could only have gotten up the well if the cement had not been set correctly.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 12:27 PM
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2. Will there be charges filed over this?
One wonders.
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Ex Lurker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 01:05 PM
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4. I feel a lot better about it than with the Bush Justice Dept
but we'll see.
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 10:24 PM
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27. no way.... too rich to pay the piper,
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Ex Lurker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 01:04 PM
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3. I wonder if this is the guy who's going to be on 60 minutes
he's an electronics technician too.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 02:42 PM
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11. Well, this one declined to be interviewed?
According to the story. So how did they know his story?
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PatrynXX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 01:32 PM
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5. Feel like I'm watching On Deadly Ground this entire time.
Including the fucking blow out preventers. Didn't that movie have something to do with blow out preventers?? o_O
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 09:12 PM
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25. the Blowout Preventer had been modified with an incompatible part that prevented
it from operating completely, because the part jam'd the cutters. the #2 backup plug to the jam'd #1 'cut and crimp' device had a "Dead Battery"...!! so it didn't work either.
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Kingofalldems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 01:33 PM
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6. Special Prosecutor needed---this is huge.
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femrap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 01:55 PM
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8. Yep...nt.
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 09:15 PM
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26. this needs to have a Public Execution as an example to others.. 11 dead,... get a rope..!
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gimama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 01:39 PM
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7. k&r.. I expect big revelations
any moment.
AND indictments.
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flor-de-jasmim Donating Member (260 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 02:40 PM
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9. So we can dispense with the "no one could have predicted" argument, I hope.
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tomm2thumbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 02:41 PM
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10. starting to sound like a Criminal Case - ignoring warnings, refusing to comply with safety measures

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Ex Lurker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 02:54 PM
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12. the WSJ has really been on top of this story
how long before Rupert Murdoch sends a memo down telling them to cool their jets?
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Incitatus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 03:10 PM
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14. idk, it might be better for oil companies if there was somoene to point the finger at.
If they can throw someone under the bus, pinpoint the cause of the explosion, and make regulations to prevent this from happening again, it might diminish the recently increased opposition to offshore drilling.
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GreenTea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 03:16 PM
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15. Gulf of Cheney...........
Edited on Sat May-15-10 03:41 PM by GreenTea

bartcop.com
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paparush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 05:47 PM
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20. "Gulf of Cheney" is absolutely perfect.
Tragic. Infuriating. But, nonetheless, perfect.
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tomm2thumbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 06:11 PM
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21. omg - great images - thanks for posting

love them
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Divine Discontent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 09:02 PM
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24. Kinda gives NEW meaning to the term.....
BLACK SEA... :(
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disndat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 10:02 AM
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35. A Cheney conspiracy theory.
It's hard not to believe that Cheney's fingerprints are all over this disaster, given his long record of depravity.
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Georgia farmer Donating Member (37 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 03:36 PM
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16. Link
Where is the link to the WSJ? Or is a line that a reporter was there all there is?
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 11:30 PM
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29. .
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704414504575244812908538510.html
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wordpix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 03:58 PM
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17. it's their fault; no, it's theirs---ALL these people should be charged for crimes against the env't
and humanity. :grr:
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 10:26 PM
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28. and the 11 needless dead.. it was murder, they BURNED TO DEATH.!!
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Stardust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 03:12 AM
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30. Since there was also a high-ranking officials meeting occuring that morning
Edited on Sun May-16-10 03:13 AM by Stardust
on the rig purportedly "celebrating" their exemplary safety record, I'm wondering if the report of the safety celebration is a lie to cover up up the Schlumberger snit. Or maybe the Schumberger snit is simply internet conjecture (IOW, a lie.) Two meetings of high-ranking officials on the same day is too coincidental to suit this skeptic.

K&R anyway. The truth must come out.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 07:44 AM
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33. NOW the "celebration" meeting is making more sense.
WOW that one slipped right by me- of course all of the first bits of this story that came out of BP were nothing but PR.
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Stardust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 08:20 AM
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34. After further reading, I came across a report that said the celebration
was going on later that evening, around 9-ish, and those celebrants were evacuated after the explosion.

A apologize for insinuating otherwise. :tinfoilhat:
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nannah Donating Member (690 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 10:19 AM
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36. any updates?
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