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Title: Bush Interior Chiefs: No One Expected Major Spill
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
URL Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic ... /07/20/national/w084859D04.DTL
Published: Jul 20, 2010
Author: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Post Date: 2010-07-20 17:11:48 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 12564
Comments: 31

Two former Interior secretaries told Congress Tuesday they did not anticipate an accident as large as the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

But Gale Norton and Dirk Kempthorne say no one else did either — including members of Congress who are now blaming the Bush administration for failing to prevent the tragedy.

Kempthorne, who served as Interior secretary from 2006 to January 2009, while George W. Bush was president, said he did not recall being asked at his confirmation hearing or in later congressional testimony about major oil spills.

In fact, Kempthorne said, the opposite occurred. In testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, he recalled being pointedly asked why Interior wasn't doing more to expand offshore energy development, not less. Those concerns were driven by $4 per gallon gas prices, Kempthorne said.

Norton, who served from 2001 to 2006, also under Bush, said the industry had a remarkable safety record, including during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.

Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., the panel's chairman, said the Interior Department made serious mistakes under both President Bush and President Barack Obama.

"The cop on the beat was off-duty for nearly a decade. And this gave rise to a culture of permissiveness," Waxman said.

Waxman said the agency's problems escalated dramatically under a "secretive task force" on energy organized by former Vice President Dick Cheney in 2001. The task force gave Interior marching orders to provide incentives to oil and gas companies to increase domestic production, while reducing regulatory impediments that may slow production, Waxman said.

Under her watch, he told Norton, it appeared that the mission of the Minerals Management Service — the Interior agency responsible for offshore drilling — was mainly to serve the oil and gas industry by helping to expand deepwater drilling.

Her decisions "sent a clear message: the priority was more drilling first, safety second," Waxman said.

Norton, now a lawyer for Royal Dutch Shell oil company, called that unfair. Under her watch, Interior took numerous steps to increase safety, including reducing the area where drilling was permitted off the coast of Florida, she said.

Norton said the 2001 terrorist attacks brought the need for domestic energy production "shockingly into focus," adding that the attacks transformed the need for more domestic energy "into a matter of grave national security."

Norton and Kempthorne urged Congress to take a balanced approach, increasing safety while not unnecessarily impeding domestic drilling.

Both said they opposed a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling imposed by the Obama administration.

"In my mind you don't ground all the airplanes because there was one problem" with a plane crash, Norton said.

"The important thing is to address the (safety) issues, not send the drilling rigs overseas where they may not return for several year," with the result that thousands of jobs are sent to other countries, she said.

Kempthorne called an initial safety review appropriate after the April 20 explosion, which killed 11 men, but said the moratorium now is causing more harm than good. Subscribe to *Spill-Baby-Spill*

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#6. To: Brian S (#0)

Dirty Fucking Hippies, why won't we die!!!! 8D, have been Screaming about this since offshore came to be.

All of those 'offshore rigs bring more fish, wildlife to the Gulf' ads.

Ohhh, I remember them so clearly.

Same arguements as the Too Cheap to Meter nuke ads, before Chernobyl.

Same thing:

NO ONE could have seen this coming. NO ONE could have predicted this.

BullShit Apologists for Planet Killers.

It's Corporations/The Top 50 000 v the People. U Pick 'Em.

And to my earlier point.

BP paid only $406,060 for Block 103 in the Keathley Canyon about 250 miles southeast of Houston as the single bidder in the 2003 Western Gulf of Mexico auction held by the U.S. Minerals Management Service, according to a government spokeswoman. The cost for the site lease wouldn't even cover one day's worth of drilling, which costs $458,000 to $517,000 for each 24-hour period. Leta Smith, director of the exploration and production forum for IHS CERA, said the BP discovery raises the prospects for the Lower Tertiary region, first heralded by Chevron's Jack discovery. "People are always continuing to look for oil and gas, and this Lower Tertiary play is still in its infancy," Smith said. "This is only the 18th discovery in this play." Read more: http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-

news-story.aspx?storyid=200909030418dowjonesdjonline000396&title=bp-discovery-brings-deep-water-gulf-of-mexico-into-focus#ixzz0uJkdxUld

The Only Other Well, abandoned or otherwise in a 5-7 mile radius of the mc 252 #001 Macondo, would be the one Deepwater abandoned March 2010:

A March 10 e-mail to Frank Patton, the U.S. Minerals Management Service’s drilling engineer for the New Orleans district, from BP executive Scherie Douglas said the company planned to sever the pipe connecting the well to the rig and plug the hole.

“We are in the midst of a well control situation on MC 252 #001 and have stuck pipe,” Douglas wrote, referring to the subsea block, Mississippi Canyon 252, of the stricken well. “We are bringing out equipment to begin operations to sever the drillpipe, plugback the well and bypass.”

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-0 ... owout.html

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-07-21   9:06:43 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: mcgowanjm (#6)

Contractor: BP Pumped Unusual Chemicals Into Well Before Explosion

A contractor working on the Deepwater Horizon when it exploded testified yesterday that the day before the explosion, BP had pumped an unusual chemical mixture into the well -- a mixture that later rained down on the rig like "snot."

Leo Lindner, a drilling fluid specialist for M-I Swaco, told the panel investigating the causes of the explosion that BP decided to mix two chemicals the company had a surplus of -- two chemicals that aren't usually mixed -- and pump them into the well to flush out the drilling mud.

"It's not something we've ever done before," he said.

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Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-07-21   9:23:55 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Fred Mertz (#7) (Edited)

Leo Lindner, a drilling fluid specialist for M-I Swaco, told the panel investigating the causes of the explosion that BP decided to mix two chemicals the company had a surplus of -- two chemicals that aren't usually mixed -- and pump them into the well to flush out the drilling mud.

"It's not something we've ever done before," he said.

Thank you very much, Fred

First. MI SWACO is Schlumberger/somebody else.

Second. The above means that not only were they removing mud/replacing seawater; they were actively pushing/flushing the mud out.

$750 000 per day X 35 days 'behind schedule = $26,250,000 if I've done my math right. That's the amt they were trying to 'save.'

Thanx again. I'll go read the source. Criminal indeed:

And I can find nothing on the Deepwater rig from March 6-20.

I still think the 'abandoned well' 3 km away is the one bp left in March. If not, then someone, somewhere needs to ID whose well it was/is.

Because there is ZERO record of ANYONE driling the MC 252 besides bp.

James

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