It's looking increasingly like BP may ultimately be held responsible for the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion.
Although it's still too early to reach a definitive conclusion, news reports coming in indicate that upper management at BP overruled the rig managers at Transocean when it came to plugging the well, insisting on using seawater instead of the usual drilling mud.
Truitt Crawford, a roustabout for Transocean, told Coast Guard investigators there were complaints by senior Transocean managers that BP was "taking shortcuts" and that those shortcuts led to directly to the explosion and environmental catastrophe.
BP, for its part, seems to be angling towards blaming Transocean, and in particular Transocean senior rig workers, for this calamity, and may also be seeking to blame Halliburton and the manufacturer of the blow-out preventer, Houston-based Cameron.
Category: BP Oil Spill Injury Claims
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