Schlumberger, A Contractor On The Exploded Oil Rig, Says BP Refused To Test The WellBy: marinara Thursday May 20, 2010 11:28 pm
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Who is to blame for the Gulf oil spill? A contracting company on the oil rig made a public statement, saying they were not allowed to test the well for a faulty seal. It goes without saying that testing the seal on the well would have prevented the explosion.
Basically, unforeseeable my perky metal ass.
1. There’s the public statement by the contracting company
Source is
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/costly_time-consuming_test_of.html A spokesman for the testing firm, Schlumberger, said BP had a Schlumberger team and equipment for sending acoustic testing lines down the well "on standby" from April 18 to April 20. But BP never asked the Schlumberger crew to perform the acoustic test and sent its members back to Louisiana on a regularly scheduled helicopter flight at 11 a.m., Schlumberger spokesman Stephen T. Harris said.
2. Rumors flesh out the story that BP worked to subvert the normal testing process.
Source is
http://adropofrain.net/2010/05/rumor-schlumberger-exits-deep-horizon-hours-before-blowout/ SLB (Schlumberger)gets out to the Deepwater Horizon to run the CBL, and they find the well still kicking heavily, which it should not be that late in the operation. SLB orders the “company man” (BP’s man on the scene that runs the operation) to dump kill fluid down the well and shut-in the well. The company man refuses. SLB in the very next sentence asks for a helo to take all SLB personel back to shore. The company man says there are no more helo’s scheduled for the rest of the week (translation: you’re here to do a job, now do it). SLB gets on the horn to shore, calls SLB’s corporate HQ, and gets a helo flown out there at SLB’s expense and takes all SLB personel to shore.
6 hours later, the platform explodes.
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Link:
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/49604Previous thread on this:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=8378978:wtf:
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