Hey Alvis, I haven’t posted in a while, just been trying to keep up with the 100+ pages on this thread and trying to earn my enough to be dangerous degree in monday morning quarterbacking so to speak.
The reports that are posted here: http://energycommerce.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2043:chairmen-send-letter-to-bp-ceo-prior-to-hearing&catid=122:media-advisories&Itemid=55
are kinda unreal. Everybody needs to read the details of all of them (and attempt to interpret the thoughts of the people that wrote them), even if they don’t understand the business. What I see, is complacency in action at the engineering/design level, and no supervisory (let’s just say no to these drugs or design) input - I reckon that’s for another court where the other emails and communications could be divulged… (then again perhaps they never will be).
From a third party perspective, most of these comms show a "Let’s massage the operation so that it kinda feels good with the model results, or muddle with them and wt heck, it’ll work out in the wash right? " - I get the feeling like these guys were ‘WANTING’ it to work, expected it to work, and yet had been doing this kind of corner cutting (houston console redesign on the fly) for song long, on so many different jobs that this level of fudging the numbers and pushing ‘lets see what happens’ was normal for them.
Can you get the feeling that no real ‘TOP-DOG’ is named as the boss in any of these emails or presentations? (I’m just speculating---- ahem, release x amount of information without implicating anyone directly).
One last thing… what about this? This was from May 27th.
http://energycommerce.house.gov/documents/20100527/BP.Presentation.pdf
Between the above document, and what we know now, are there discrepancies? One thing’s for sure, CM1’s been right all along about BP, and this sux imo, for a lot of foks. Re-read the BP.Presentation.pdf, with now a learned mind, and you’ll notice tons of finger pointing at everything BUT them.
Somebody’s gonna have to fry, it may not be Hayward, and it cannot be the millions of stockholders, it’ll have to be someone that is disposable in the engineering chain of command that forced this crap design on the fly of a well. Or it could be a nobody.
FWIW, after all is said and done, it wouldn’t surprise me if they jailed a shrimper out of New Orleans and blamed him for the entire thing, gave Thad Allen a congressional medal of honor, and the Queen gave Hayward a knighthood.