More On The Well Test Schlumberger Was Not Allowed To Perform By BP

[WillyT]

Schlumberger, A Contractor On The Exploded Oil Rig, Says BP Refused To Test The Well
By: 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/49604


Previous thread on this: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=8378978

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[aquart]

1. SLB says "regularly scheduled helicopter flight."

There are big differences in these two stories. SLB says it wasn't asked to do the tests. Which is different from ordering the well to be killed and hysterically calling for a helicopter to get them off the rig.

SLB does not intend to lose a customer?

[truedelphi]

2. Iknow, I know.

These companies are all so inter-entwined and so dependent on being hired once again by BP that they do not want to accuse the corporate giant of anything.

[Ruby the Liberal]

3. I think everyone involved is in CYA mode

It is going to be a bloodbath between these companies when the lawsuits start.

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. Thanks for the update. KnR

[aquart]

5. Okay I now see discrepancies in the official statement.

I am expected to believe that SLB was getting paid for men to hang around for two days and then BP sent them home, clearly having forgotten why they were hired in the first place, AND WITHOUT RETRIEVING THEIR EQUIPMENT BEFORE THEY LEFT?

Huh?

But this iffy an official statement does answer previous questions as to why the Coast Guard wasn't informed. SLB took all this time to issue a statement because it had to cover two asses, its own and BP's.