Still no evidence supporting BP’s claimed third mystery pressure test

Even BP admits that two negative pressure tests were performed aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig to check the safety of the Macondo well just hours before the explosion that killed 11 workers. By all accounts, both tests failed when 23 gallons and 15 gallons of drilling mud, respectively, returned back up the well. These were signs that dangerous gasses were pushing upward which meant it may have been unsafe to continue drilling. BP claims it conducted a third safety test that passed but seven weeks after the disaster the company still has no produced evidence to back up this claim. Thomas Haire, a Halliburton supervisor who helped conduct the two tests, believes that the third test never took place. Haire said that after the second test, he was told to leave the area and go on standby when the mystery test supposed took place.

Source: Mother Jones