BP: Oil rig leak 'wasn't our accident'

[spanone]

CEO to NBC: We'll clean it up, but rig was run by Transocean

NEW ORLEANS - Facing an unprecedented Gulf Coast environmental disaster, not to mention lawsuits, oil giant BP told NBC on Monday that while it was taking responsibility for cleaning up the giant undersea leak, the accident that triggered the disaster was not its fault.

"It wasn't our accident, but we are absolutely responsible for the oil, for cleaning it up, and that's what we intend to do," BP Group CEO Tony Hayward told NBC's "TODAY" show.

The rig that exploded on April 20 and then sank was run by another company, Transocean, he reminded viewers. That rig, he said, "was run by their people, their processes."

Hayward added that the failure of the rig's "blow-out preventer" — a device that should have shut off the well when the rig exploded and sank — was "unprecedented in our industry."

"What has failed here is the ultimate safety device on a drilling rig," he said. "There are many barriers of protection that you have to go to before you get to this. It isn't designed to not fail."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36912754/ns/us_news-environment/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. My guess is their insurance carrier told them to say that.

[Robb]

2. "It isn't designed to not fail." Geebus.

Now THAT's some lawyerin' right there. Take notes people. :D

[KansDem]

3. Now the finger-pointing begins.

Funny...there's never any question about to whom BP profits go...

[spanone]

4. the spin begins

[rfranklin]

5. And who paid Transocean to run the rig?

If it was BP, then they are responsible.

[Junkdrawer]

6. And Nike doesn't exploit Indonesian workers...

It's their subcontractors that do that... :eyes:

[Lyric]

7. BP hired Transocean. If they didn't do a good job vetting their techniques

then it's BP's fault by negligence.

[cbdo2007]

8. This is probably true....Not that BP should be totally off the hook since

they are responsible for selecting a good company to do their work for them, the safety measures could have been skipped by this other company rather than BP.

Just being open to the possiblity here and happy for the truth to come out either way - whether it is BP or the other company.

[FBI_Un_Sub]

9. The off shore oil industry is a lawyers' paradise

with every aspect of it contracted and sub-contracted out to vendors and sub-vendors. Each tank barge, crew boat, and helicopter is a separate corporation.Allegedly "limits liability" and avoids some workplace safety laws.

[damntexdem]

10. If it wasn't their accident, then it must have been their crime.

And now it will become their numerous days in court.