Oil spill: BP had wrong diagram to close blowout preventer

Oil spill: BP had wrong diagram to close blowout preventer

WASHINGTON — In the days after an oil well spun out of control in the Gulf of Mexico, BP engineers tried to activate a huge piece of underwater safety equipment but failed because the device had been so altered that diagrams BP got from the equipment's owner didn't match the supposedly failsafe device's configuration, congressional investigators said Wednesday.

The oil well also failed at least one critical pressure test on the day that gas surged up the drill pipe and set the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig aflame, killing 11 and setting off a spill that has spewed 210,000 gallons of crude into the gulf every day for three weeks, according to BP documents provided to congressional investigators.

"The more I learn about this accident, the more concerned I become. This catastrophe appears to have been caused by a calamitous series of equipment and operational failures'' said Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said at a hearing on Wednesday _ the third congressional hearing in two days on the unfolding catastrophe.

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:crazy: :nuke: :crazy:

I've always wondered what good it would do to shoot the other
guy in the launch capsule; you still couldn't get his key turned.

It was a totally empty threat.

Tesha

You'd first knee-cap him/her ... then, if they don't pass out from the pain, threaten to hit center mass. :evilgrin:

The pods were designed with the keys sufficiently far apart that no
one person can turn both keys simultaneously.

Tesha

things were on the rig that day!? This is all sounding like a bunch of bullshit, of course we will have to wait for an independant organization to come in and really tell us how bad it is...which will be years away. :(

Jesus, does no one notice the Earth anymore or have we really gotten that lazy over obvious perils? So is their insurer going to cancel their policy? Sure sounds like they could. :sarcasm:

I mean, there are a thousand idiot disasters just waiting to happen without any outside help.

Money so he will shut up. Now!

Can't have words like this being spoken.

Basic engineering discipline, sacrificed on the altar of greed.

But I really want to hear how the engineers rationalize what was going on down there.