BP's Own Probe Finds Safety Issues on Atlantis Rig

[Lars77]

Source: ABC News

BP operates rig in Gulf without proper safety documents; experts say this can lead to a spill.

The company whose drilling triggered the Gulf of Mexico oil spill also owns a rig that operated with incomplete and inaccurate engineering documents, which one official warned could "lead to catastrophic operator error," records and interviews show.

In February, two months before the Deepwater Horizon spill, 19 members of Congress called on the agency that oversees offshore oil drilling to investigate a whistle-blower's complaints about the BP-owned Atlantis, which is stationed in 7,070 feet of water more than 150 miles south of New Orleans.

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Who needs regulation?

[Hubert Flottz]

1. Offshore Massey?

[cstanleytech]

2. Gee, smells kinda like BP is trying to shift the blame.

[Xipe Totec]

3. Like cooking a dinner without a complete recipe?

That's the best analogy they could come up with?!

How about:

"Running an oil rig with flawed and missing documentation is like"

1.- Playing Russian roulette with six bullets loaded in the revolver.

2.- Running across the highway blindfolded.

3.- Teasing a caged lion from inside the cage.

4.- Bungee jumping while tied from the neck.

5.- Driving a car with a brake pedal installed in the trunk.

6.- Skydiving with a golf umbrella.

7.- Deep frying a frozen turkey.

8.- Pissing on the third rail

9.- Tasing yourself in the tongue for fun.

10.- Running with the bulls wearing a red cape.

[protocol rv]

6. The amount of documentation required is enormous

They need a staff to keep up with it, but they have been laying people off. I suppose they will reverse the trend. The key is for the Board of Directors to understand they have a cultural problem at the top, and fire Tony Hayward and about 50 % of the management in the top three layers. They also need to change over the company culture, to do this they should fire about 50 % of their commercial staff.

[CanonRay]

4. It's find a scapegoat time!

Now, who wants to volunteer? Cause the big Corp. sure as hell ain't going down.

[sasquuatch55]

7. Trickle Down the way Reagan envisioned it.

nt

[joanmj]

5. More regulation!

[tomm2thumbs]

8. After 'Atlantis', the next BP platforms will be 'Titantic', 'Lusitania' and 'McCain'- all sinkers!

There's no end to the irony of naming their platform 'Atlantis' and having it sink into the ocean.

[mrJJ]

9. 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick in spots

ROBERT, La. -- Oil from a blown-out well is forming huge underwater plumes below a visible slick in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists said as BP wrestled for a third day Sunday with its latest contraption for slowing the nearly month-old gusher. One of the plumes is "as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick in spots," the New York Times reported. "The discovery is fresh evidence that the leak from the broken undersea well could be substantially worse than estimates that the government and BP have given."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/15/giant-oil-plumes-found-in_n_577654.html