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Federal panel to meet on bad decisions leading to Deepwater Horizon


Posted on Jul 19, 2010

All this week, a government panel will look at 20 so called “anomalies” of poor decisions and reckless procedures in the hours before the Deepwater Horizon blew up on April 20. It was the event that killed 11 workers, injured 17 and triggered the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. Among the areas of scrutiny is the reasoning behind why BP and Transocean continued to finish the Macondo well when signs indicated that they were losing control of it. For example, more drilling mud was coming back up than was going down during a routing test. Of particular focus will be the dysfunctional communication between representatives of both companies who reportedly had major disagreements over procedures shortly before the blowout. Rig workers will testify before the panel.

Read the Wall Street Journal story.

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