BP engineer's testimony contradicted by e-mail released by congressional investigators

[kpete]

Source: NOLA

BP engineer's testimony contradicted by e-mail released by congressional investigators
Published: Tuesday, June 15, 2010, 10:30 PM Updated: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 8:36 AM
David Hammer, The Times-Picayune David Hammer, The Times-Picayune


Last month, Mark Hafle, BP's senior drilling engineer for the oil well that's now spewing millions of gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico, testified in Kenner that he and his team believed they had worked in concert with a contractor to come up with the safest possible design for encasing the well with cement and steel tubing so that "all the concerns had been addressed."

But now, e-mail messages released by congressional investigators paint a different picture of Hafle's confidence in the troubled well.

They show Hafle expressed concerns in the week before the April 20 disaster on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, calling the Macondo well 5,000 feet below that rig "a crazy well."

And contrary to Hafle's testimony that his team worked with the cementing contractor, Halliburton, to analyze models and design a plan "to give us the best chance to have a successful cement job," the internal e-mail messages now show that BP actually rejected a safer plan that required installing more components because, as well team leader John Guide wrote on April 16, "it will take 10 hours to install them."



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[Scuba]

1. Gee, 10 hours AND $10 million saved. That means...

...THEY DESTROYED THE GULF OF MEXICO TO GIVE THEIR STOCKHOLDERS ANOTHER 2 CENTS A SHARE!!!!!!

[NewJeffCT]

6. It would be less than 2 cents per share

If they had to take the additional $10 million expense, they likely could have deducted that from their taxable earnings.

[Sub Atomic]

2. Then throw his ass in jail.

Until this nation starts treating corporate criminals like criminals, this shit will never stop.

HOLD. HIM. ACCOUNTABLE.

[wordpix]

3. +1 here we have some actual people with actual asses to kick---DO IT

[elleng]

10. 'Him' who?

Guide, or others, those pressuring him to speed things up? We really should think this thru to be certain we're 'after' the correct culprits, NOT the 'workers,' imo.

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[ladywnch]

5. I read about these mails several days ago.

I realize investigations still need to be conducted but it seems to me that these mails pretty well prove willful negligence and malfeasance on BPs part and maybe others ( I can't remember all the emails well enough) so indict already!

[Auggie]

7. +1

[aquart]

8. How wide was the distribution list?

Because everyone who was on it should do time.

[ladywnch]

13. there was no mention of the distro list but the mail was directed to

BP HQ so............. I agree with you though.

[defendandprotect]

9. From the start it's an insane well -- evidently the oil is under three states . . .

and because BP didn't want to pay royalties -- they drilled down diagonally to

the edge of the oil source --

As long as we allow the dollar bill to drive our values and decision making we are

behaving suicidally --

Nature is all --

[colorado_ufo]

11. Isn't that what Saddam Hussein did to Kuwait?

Which started the OTHER Gulf War?

[defendandprotect]

12. Never heard that -- wow!!