[QUOTE=alcor;35686]Only a dog does as he’s told. We are equipped to judge what the hole is telling us. If we don’t know what the hole is saying then we are like blind men crossing a busy road.
When ‘Land’ instructs you to do something it is often clear that they don’t understand the severity of the situation. ‘Land’ instructs us to perform tasks in a particular sequence, but its up to us to help them make good decisions that we agree with. There is NEVER a compromise on bad tests, followed by reduction of hydrostatic pressure. NEVER. I don’t believe ‘land’ told the Co Man to displace the mud to sea water. They didn’t see the tests. The ‘Cowboy’ made these decisions himself!!![/QUOTE]
Hard to believe, Alcor, that “Land” was not aware of real-time drilling and displacement ops.
Furthermore, here’s a story about what the the OIM had to say to Someone Higher Up on Land as he watched the Deepwater Horizon burn from the bridge of the supply boat:
"Deepwater Horizon installation manager Jimmy Harrell, a top employee of rig owner Transocean, was speaking with someone in Houston via satellite phone. Buzbee told [I]Mother Jones[/I] that, according to this witness account, Harrell was screaming,
[B]“Are you fucking happy? Are you fucking happy? The rig’s on fire! I told you this was gonna happen.”[/B]
Whoever was on the other end of the line was apparently trying to calm Harrell down. [B]“I am fucking calm,” he went on, according to Buzbee. “You realize the rig is burning?”[/B]
At that point, the boat’s captain asked Harrell to leave the bridge. It wasn’t clear whether Harrell had been talking to Transocean, BP, or someone else."
If this story proves to be true, then it will point to the culpability of Houston being in control of the damning operations that led to the blowout. We already know that the BP had stated that he had little or no deepwater drilling experience and was there to learn. I can imagine that he was listening to the TO driller and toolpusher and taking that info back to his Houston superiors, who were ordering him to over rule their wisdom and advice. The fact that he ignored the Schlumberger crew’s urging to “kill the well or they were leaving” shows he had little or no “real world” experience of [B]listening to the experts.[/B] I’d be surprised if he wasn’t just a [B]bean counter[/B] who was sent onsite just to contain BP’s runaway costs on this well.
All this is gonna come out at the Nuremburg Trials. Let’s see if he is allowed to plead the Fifth then, or if he tries the “I was just following orders” defense.
Your defense of your argument that it was all the local guy’s decisions isn’t worth a bucket of warm spit, and makes me really suspect where you fit into this.