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Title: Spill Investigator: Halliburton, BP Knew Of Faulty Cement Before Well Blowout
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THE HILL
URL Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/67 ... lty-cement-before-well-blowout
Published: Oct 28, 2010
Author: By Darren Goode
Post Date: 2010-10-28 20:10:48 by Brian S
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- 10/28/10 02:33 PM ET Halliburton and BP knew weeks ahead of the fatal explosion of the Macondo well that cement being used to seal it was faulty but "neither acted upon it," a top investigator for a bipartisan presidential commission investigating the spill said in its first official finding.72; 72;Three of four tests Halliburton ran on cement the company subsequently used to seal the Gulf of Mexico well before it ruptured April 20 — killing 11 — showed that the mixture would be unstable, lead investigator Fred Bartlit said in a letter sent to the panel’s commissioners Thursday.72; 72;Halliburton may not have had — and BP did not have — the results of the one test that showed the cement was stable before the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, “meaning that the cement job may have been pumped without any lab results indicating that the foam cement slurry would be stable,” Bartlit wrote. 72; 72; BP was given the results of testing in March “showing that a very similar foam slurry design to the one actually pumped at the Macondo well would be unstable, but neither acted upon it,” Bartlit wrote. “Halliburton (and perhaps BP) should have considered redesigning the foam slurry before pumping it at the Macondo well.”72; 72; BP and the owner of the rig — Transocean — “misinterpreted or chose not to conduct” tests developed by the oil industry to identify cementing failures, he wrote.72; 72; Halliburton has publicly stated that it tested the Macondo cement before pumping it on April 19 and 20 and that its tests indicated the cement would be stable.72;72; The well explosion set off the worst oil spill in U.S. history. The findings drew quick rebuke from Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), who heads a key Energy and Commerce subcommittee. 72;72;"This is like building a car when you know the brakes could fail, but you sell the cars anyway," Markey said. "We now know what BP and Halliburton knew, and when they knew it. And now we know they did absolutely nothing about it."72;72; Markey reiterated his push for Congress to grant the spill commission subpoena power and for BP CEO Bob Dudley to appear before Markey's Energy and Environment Subcommittee. Dudley has twice turned down Markey's request to appear.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
And thank you. When you see the MSM processing info that was derided by the cognicente in the Days following, you know you've been validated. We really are getting into 'brut force by the state' policy now.
wait a sec, I thought the spill was Obama's fault?
How's the Gulf evacuation proceeding, mcclown? What's the latest death toll caused by Obama's oil disaster?
The Wall Street Journal has reviewed BP internal documents along with hours of public testimony before a joint Coast Guard and Interior Department panel. The Journal also interviewed dozens of witnesses to the disaster. What emerges is a startling picture of the last day of the Deepwater Horizon—a day filled with disruption and disagreement. Many workers on the rig didn't find out until the morning of April 20 about the change in a pressure test that would help determine the well's safety. BP wanted to remove an unusually large amount of the thick drilling fluid called mud from the well and then run the test. It was unorthodox and left crew members confused. http://gcaptain.com/forum/offshore/4805-deepwater-horizon-transocean-oil-rig-fire-230.html
^ ^ Schlumberger, in the meantime, demanding from bp and getting a helo to get them the hell off that rig....just in time.
How's the Gulf evacuation proceeding, mcclown? What's the latest death toll caused by Obama's oil disaster?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/04/AR2010050404118.html U.S. exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, May 5, 2010 The Interior Department exempted BP's calamitous Gulf of Mexico drilling operation from a detailed environmental impact analysis last year, according to government documents, after three reviews of the area concluded that a massive oil spill was unlikely. The decision by the department's Minerals Management Service (MMS) to give BP's lease at Deepwater Horizon a "categorical exclusion" from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on April 6, 2009 -- and BP's lobbying efforts just 11 days before the explosion to expand those exemptions -- show that neither federal regulators nor the company anticipated an accident of the scale of the one unfolding in the gulf. Rethinking the rules Now, environmentalists and some key senators are calling for a reassessment of safety requirements for offshore drilling. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), who has supported offshore oil drilling in the past, said, "I suspect you're going to see an entirely different regime once people have a chance to sit back and take a look at how do we anticipate and clean up these potential environmental consequences" from drilling. BP spokesman Toby Odone said the company's appeal for NEPA waivers in the past "was based on the spill and incident-response history in the Gulf of Mexico." Once the various investigations of the new spill have been completed, he added, "the causes of this incident can be applied to determine any changes in the regulatory regime that are required to protect the environment." "I'm of the opinion that boosterism breeds complacency and complacency breeds disaster," said Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) on Tuesday. "That, in my opinion, is what happened." Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, said it is important to learn the cause of the accident before pursuing a major policy change. "While the conversation has shifted, the energy reality has not," Gerard said. "The American economy still relies on oil and gas." While the MMS assessed the environmental impact of drilling in the central and western Gulf of Mexico on three occasions in 2007 -- including a specific evaluation of BP's Lease 206 at Deepwater Horizon -- in each case it played down the prospect of a major blowout. In one assessment, the agency estimated that "a large oil spill" from a platform would not exceed a total of 1,500 barrels and that a "deepwater spill," occurring "offshore of the inner Continental shelf," would not reach the coast. In another assessment, it defined the most likely large spill as totaling 4,600 barrels and forecast that it would largely dissipate within 10 days and would be unlikely to make landfall. "They never did an analysis that took into account what turns out to be the very real possibility of a serious spill," said Holly Doremus, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley who has reviewed the documents. The MMS mandates that companies drilling in some areas identify under NEPA what could reduce a project's environmental impact. But Interior Department spokesman Matt Lee-Ashley said the service grants between 250 and 400 waivers a year for Gulf of Mexico projects. He added that Interior has now established the "first ever" board to examine safety procedures for offshore drilling. It will report back within 30 days on BP's oil spill and will conduct "a broader review of safety issues," Lee-Ashley said. BP's exploration plan for Lease 206, which calls the prospect of an oil spill "unlikely," stated that "no mitigation measures other than those required by regulation and BP policy will be employed to avoid, diminish or eliminate potential impacts on environmental resources." While the plan included a 13-page environmental impact analysis, it minimized the prospect of any serious damage associated with a spill, saying there would be only "sub-lethal" effects on fish and marine mammals, and "birds could become oiled. However it is unlikely that an accidental oil spill would occur from the proposed activities." Kierán Suckling, executive director of the environmental group Center for Biological Diversity, said the federal waiver "put BP entirely in control" of the way it conducted its drilling. Agency a 'rubber stamp' "The agency's oversight role has devolved to little more than rubber-stamping British Petroleum's self-serving drilling plans," Suckling said. BP has lobbied the White House Council on Environmental Quality -- which provides NEPA guidance for all federal agencies-- to provide categorical exemptions more often. In an April 9 letter, BP America's senior federal affairs director, Margaret D. Laney, wrote to the council that such exemptions should be used in situations where environmental damage is likely to be "minimal or non-existent." An expansion in these waivers would help "avoid unnecessary paperwork and time delays," she added. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill were talking Tuesday about curtailing offshore oil exploration rather than making it easier. In addition to traditional foes of offshore drilling such as Democratic Sens. Robert Menendez (N.J.) and Bill Nelson (Fla.), Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and centrists such as Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) said they are taking a second look at such methods. "It's time to push the pause button," Baucus told reporters. Staff writer Steven Mufson contributed to this report.
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It was Obama's fault.
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Getting worse: Toddler with “severe upper respiratory, sinus, and viral infections” — Experts believe linked to oil disaster October 28th, 2010 at 03:40 PM BP dispersants ‘causing sickness’, Dahr Jamail, October 27, 2010:
When Obama lifted the Deepwater Regs Nationwide a week before the DWH Ecocide, he joined the Top 50 000. And this is STILL a SECRET: Search Results 1. Energy Task Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Energy Task Force, officially the National Energy Policy Development Group, was a task .... "Papers Detail Industry's Role in Cheney's Energy Report". ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Task_Force - Cached - Similar Å8; 2. Cheney Energy Task Force - SourceWatch The group, commonly referred to as the "Cheney Energy Task Force," produced a National Energy Policy report in May 2001. [1] In a cover note to George W. ... www.sourcewatch.org/index....Cheney_Energy_Task_Force - Cached - Similar 3. Dick Cheney's Last Laugh | Mother Jones Jun 10, 2010 ... The energy task force was created days after onetime oilman George W. Bush took office in 2001, and was headed by Cheney, a former CEO at ... motherjones.com/politics/2010/06/dick-cheney-bp-spill - Cached
Amazing, isn't it?
Amazing, isn't it? That the USbp are STILL holding Secrets of the DWH Ecocide. Another Amazing Feat. 8D It'll come out. unlike Alaska/XOMValdez, we've got 25 million in Harm's Way now: Dean Blanchard experiencing symptoms: “Coughing, sore throat, burning eyes, headaches, just like everyone around here feels” — “They are using us like lab rats” October 28th, 2010 at 01:25 PM BP dispersants ‘causing sickness’, Dahr Jamail, October 27, 2010: Karen Hopkins, in Grand Isle, Louisiana, has … Read more >> http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/ 'We can All be hero's. If just for one day.'-David Bowie
But I think this is wrong because the GoM will throw this stuff up and out: Oil + Corexit could linger for 300 YEARS says state official October 28th, 2010 at 10:41 AM 25retweet Share89 Official says that BP won’t pay for seafood program, Daily Comet, October 27, 2010:
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
Halliburton and BP knew weeks ahead of the fatal explosion of the Macondo well that cement being used to seal it was faulty but "neither acted upon it," a top investigator for a bipartisan presidential commission investigating the spill said in its first official finding.72;
On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.
#3. To: mcgowanjm (#1)
you know you've been validated.
#4. To: Brian S (#0)
#5. To: All (#4)
#6. To: mcgowanjm (#5)
just in time.
#7. To: go65 (#2)
Barrack Hussein Obama
President of the United States of America said that some Americans ; "They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."
#8. To: All, *The Spill Baby Spill Party* (#7)
Barrack Hussein Obama
President of the United States of America said that some Americans ; "They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."
#9. To: WhiteSands (#8)
#10. To: WhiteSands (#8)
It was Obama's fault.
#11. To: mcgowanjm (#10)
And this is STILL a SECRET:
#12. To: Fred Mertz (#11)
And this is STILL a SECRET:
#13. To: Brian S (#0)
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