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To: Keith Feral who wrote (136123)	6/24/2010 7:41:06 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	2 Recommendations Respond to of 206326

Donald Vidrine, the BP well site leader aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that exploded and sank nine weeks ago, said in an interview yesterday that he has been on administrative leave since the incident. Just hours before the disaster, Vidrine overruled objections from representatives of rig owner Transocean Ltd. about how to finish the well, Douglas Brown, the chief mechanic on the vessel, told U.S. Coast Guard and Interior Department investigators in May. “I can’t talk about it,” Vidrine said during the interview outside his red-and-black brick home in Lafayette, Louisiana, about 130 miles west of New Orleans. Vidrine, 62, declined to say if other BP employees involved in the April 20 catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico have been placed on leave. Vidrine shrugged when asked if and when he expects to return to work. When asked if he had been placed on leave as a result of the disaster, he said, “Yes, but I really have nothing at all to say.” Vidrine, dressed in a t-shirt, jeans and brown work boots, spoke in his driveway, beside a blue Ford F-150 pickup truck and a cast-iron fleur-de-lis nailed to a fence. bloomberg.com .