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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (568770)5/29/2010 11:32:17 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1582625
 
"By facts I mean all the facts. Were there reasons for some of these things? "

Well, other than speeding things up and/or cutting costs, there just aren't many other reasons possible. For example, the biggie. Pumping the drilling mud out of the riser before the second cement cap is in place is against generally accepted best practices. It doesn't do anything but reduce the time it takes to shut down that site and move to the next. It does run a high risk of exactly what happened. Ditto with the dead battery in the BOP stack. It means if the electrical connection to the platform is interrupted, there is no way to trigger it. It does mean you don't have to cap the well, pull up the BPO stack and repair it. That takes time. And time is running about a million dollars a day.

Those two things alone are enough to castigate BP. They were gambling big and they lost.
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