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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (569488)6/1/2010 5:56:46 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (2) of 1577699
 
We only know what we read in the press and a lot of stuff in the press isn't well informed, may be incorrect, or may be irrelevant. There are some indications that BP may have cut corners in the well design, not necessarily the BOP design or installation. That will all be hashed out in court, there are going to be suits brought by all the companies involved against one another, brought by the families of the people killed on the rig, by those injured, by the non-operating investors in the well (like APC), and by the shareholders. It will take years and lots of depositions and expert testimony to hash things out.

We also know that Cheney did a pass on a safeguard that is considered standard in Brazil and Norway.....a safeguard that might have prevented this disaster.

Maybe not. They weren't able to get the BOP to close completely manually using ROV's so the acoustic switch you're getting at probably wouldn't have worked either.

Most likely Cheney never made any decisions on BOP standards .... if he had, and if he had been influenced by his past involvement with HAL, that might actually have given him an interest in strong safety regulations. First off, HAL is a supplier to oil companies not an oil company itself and second, no one WANTS a blowout like this or is indifferent to it happening.
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