Documents show BP chose a less-expensive, less-reliable method for completing well in Gulf oil spill

Source: Orlando Sentinel

Documents show BP chose a less-expensive, less-reliable method for completing well in Gulf oil spill

By Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel

10:11 p.m. EDT, May 22, 2010


Oil company BP used a cheaper, quicker but potentially less dependable method to complete the drilling of the Deepwater Horizon well, according to several experts and documents obtained by the Orlando Sentinel.

"There are clear alternatives to the methods BP used that most engineers in the drilling business would consider much more reliable and safer," said F.E. Beck, a petroleum-engineering professor at Texas A&M University who testified recently before a U.S. Senate committee investigating BP's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico.

He and other petroleum and drilling engineers who reviewed a log of the Deepwater Horizon's activities obtained by the Sentinel described BP's choice of well design as one in which the final phase called for a 13,293-foot-long length of permanent pipe, called "casing," to be locked in place with a single injection of cement that can often turn out to be problematic.

A different approach more commonly used in the hazardous geology of the Gulf involves installing a section of what the industry calls a "liner," then locking both the liner and a length of casing in place with one or, often, two cement jobs that are less prone to failure.

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The article goes on to quote another expert, a veteran deepwater engineer, who said his company uses the liner design nearly all the time, and it's ten times safer than the casing design. But if BP had used the safer liner design, it would have taken a week more, and cost millions of dollars more.

And I hear the bonuses are huge.

Since rules applied back will effect them. Although it may be sooner or later it does occur.

It is not in doubt, but for people to do good for fear of punishment would do them no good anyway, since that would not be for the right reason. And it is all about intent.

So people can not know that things like that exist. Or they would just do for self even when doing good. So things like that when many say them do not make it into some peoples heads.

Since if some heard that it would make it impossible for them to do good, since they would only do good to protect themselves, not to do good.

One of the reasons it is faith, if it is proven, then people can not do good, (except with some modified situations, mostly reversals), and still actually do in selflessness.

Some do see some things, and from that it is a different perspective.

If a person does something because he fears punishment, it doesn't mean anything, so people can not know they will be punished, or the chance that their heart can be changed and them doing for reasons of good goes away.

That is why people don't know for sure, to try and change their hearts to good intent, not just trying to get on the winning side.

That may have occurred in some worldly events, but what you call the company, may not be what I see and feel as the best authority. However I do agree their are different sources.

:grr:

:argh:

:mad:

They used that motto for years. Profits over people. I guess BP can go with Profits over planet.

period. And no one is surprised by this. Obviously they f*cked it all up somewhere along the way.

The presence of high pressure gas was well known in the formation.

is written all over this disaster, as well as our country's lack of regulation of the oil drilling industry.


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