[QUOTE=bigmoose;36524]Thanks Alf for building the chain of command. I see the cross-links from my “story” to real BP positions… very good detective work.[/QUOTE]
The information has been there since Hafle’s testimony.
Until today I have been reluctant to name names. I owe it to both Adam and Donald to now clear the picture for everyone else.
I seem to recall a post here somewhere that a jet fuel tank was located under the helideck. The helideck is melted in a square pattern. Somewhat shaped like a tank. Our old Jet A tank was small and cylindrical with typical convex ends. <=>
In reference to the DWH derrick. I saw a great deal of vertical ladder caging, backscratcher, on the rig rov the other day. Couldn’t determine where it should have been on the rig though.
[QUOTE=Alf;36525]The information has been there since Hafle’s testimony.
Until today I have been reluctant to name names. I owe it to both Adam and Donald to now clear the picture for everyone else.[/QUOTE]
Please don’t say Cocales was the head bone. I’m going back & check your chart. I will ask preemptively, the way the BIG DOGS have been covering up, are they just that loyal ? Because looking at the heads of the other 4 families yesterday it didn’t seem so. How much further up the food chain do you think it goes? I beleive the cover up to be a crime in itself. & as late as yesterday, the gentleman I can’t name was still standing by the rediculous 1000, 5000 BPD statement even after Markey gave him one last chance to come clean.
Thank you all for real technical info.
I was in the refining side of Big Oil. My experience, in short, is different situation, different names - same story. I was involved at a facility that had a stick to the safety policies if it doesn’t cost / delay any work. After 3 people died (one a non-employee passer-by outside the fenceline,) the PR people were out spreading outright lies and half-truths. I knew the story, I did the incident investigation. All my notes were confiscated by the attorneys who were on scene while the fire was still smoldering.
A question. I have heard a comment of a dome building up on the seafloor due to the pressures in the rock strata. This could also be the source of seepage / leaks from floor fissures. Can anyone give more info?
[QUOTE=company man 1;36528]Please don’t say Cocales was the head bone. I’m going back & check your chart. I will ask preemptively, the way the BIG DOGS have been covering up, are they just that loyal ? Because looking at the heads of the other 4 families yesterday it didn’t seem so. How much further up the food chain do you think it goes? I beleive the cover up to be a crime in itself. & as late as yesterday, the gentleman I can’t name was still standing by the rediculous 1000, 5000 BPD statement even after Markey gave him one last chance to come clean.[/QUOTE]
He was the one I had trouble with placing. The newly released emails confirm he is in that group. I could be wrong with him being the head of that group. Simms used to head that particular group until recently (did he sign off the original well programme as Head of Well Engineering??) Simms is now the DOM, who took over his old position? (Walz)
[QUOTE=RefineryPerson;36529]Thank you all for real technical info.
I was in the refining side of Big Oil. My experience, in short, is different situation, different names - same story. I was involved at a facility that had a stick to the safety policies if it doesn’t cost / delay any work. After 3 people died (one a non-employee passer-by outside the fenceline,) the PR people were out spreading outright lies and half-truths. I knew the story, I did the incident investigation. All my notes were confiscated by the attorneys who were on scene while the fire was still smoldering.
A question. I have heard a comment of a dome building up on the seafloor due to the pressures in the rock strata. This could also be the source of seepage / leaks from floor fissures. Can anyone give more info?[/QUOTE]
Who knows. We TRY NOT TO SPECULATE HERE>… That’s my comical contribution for the day.
[QUOTE=Alf;36530]He was the one I had trouble with. The newly released emails confirm he is in that group. I could be wrong with him being the head of that group. Simms used to head that particular group until recently (did he sign off the original well programme as Head of Well Engineering??) Simms is now the DOM, who took over his old position?[/QUOTE]
I stand corrected. i have just seen the other emails
Walz is Head of Drilling Engineering!
[QUOTE=Alf;36530]He was the one I had trouble with. The newly released emails confirm he is in that group. I could be wrong with him being the head of that group. Simms used to head that particular group until recently (did he sign off the original well programme as Head of Well Engineering??) Simms is now the DOM, who took over his old position?[/QUOTE]
It sounded to me like he was justifying Guide’s decision to go without centralizers, but maybe he was saying Guide had convinced him that he should go without centralizers to save money. I saw emails a couple of days before the disaster addressed to Vidrine & Sepulvado, Ronald. I am wondering if he wasn’t the other Co. Rep. I am getting sick all over again & it’s just after 10 O’clock.
[QUOTE=company man 1;36533]It sounded to me like he was justifying Guide’s decision to go without centralizers, but maybe he was saying Guide had convinced him that he should go without centralizers to save money. I saw emails a couple of days before the disaster addressed to Vidrine & Sepulvado, Ronald. I am wondering if he wasn’t the other Co. Rep. I am getting sick all over again & it’s just after 10 O’clock.[/QUOTE]
Cocales works for Walz. My bad.
Sepulvado could be kaluza’s relief/back to back? I don’t know.
[QUOTE=Alf;36534]Cocales works for Walz. My bad.
Sepulvado could be kaluza’s relief/back to back? I don’t know.[/QUOTE]
Not holding you to anything, & of course with the disclaimer that we are still half in the dark. Could you kind of redo the head bone connected to the neck bone again maybe with a few names. I have an idea we will become as familiar with those names as we did with the guys in the OJ trial.
I have a polling question for fellow posters. Was anyone else as disappointed to extremely disappointed as I was in the POTUS talk last night ? I didn’t hear what I wanted to hear the most. I mean What the hell is a Blue Ribbon panel ? How is it only some kind of PHD from Harvard can solve this mess? It was guys like that who got us into this mess. What we need are workers, workers, workers. We need the President to tell the Governors of each state you take whatever money you need to & set up local leaders to supervise the performance of the clean up work. Screw BP. They either pay the bill or they’re out of business period. Screw due process. That went out the window with the act of terrorism BP committed against the citizens of the gulf coast of the United States.
I was actually hoping former General Honore’ would be the Leader…He get’s to the chase,sorta guy.
And then, I would hope some of you, would step up to the plate,as his advisors.
[QUOTE=New Orleans Lady;36538]I was actually hoping former General Honore’ would be the Leader…He get’s to the chase,sorta guy.[/QUOTE]
I think a lot of people would have liked that. A local kick ass guy that understands the culture & gets things done. I would hope he’s been asked already & had to turn it down because of his age, health, or whatever.
[QUOTE=New Orleans Lady;36539]And then, I would hope some of you, would step up to the plate,as his advisors.[/QUOTE]
You can’t advise someone who aint listening. Billy Nungesser & Bobby Jindahl are proof of that.
Actually, a CNN reporter inerviewed him, at the WW11 museam, last week, and he went so far, as to display on a Large Display Board, his outline, of how to “run” this.
[QUOTE=New Orleans Lady;36543]Actually, a CNN reporter inerviewed him, at the WW11 museam, last week, and he went so far, as to display on a Large Display Board, his outline, of how to “run” this.[/QUOTE]
You talkin about Honore’?
[QUOTE=company man 1;36535]Not holding you to anything, & of course with the disclaimer that we are still half in the dark. Could you kind of redo the head bone connected to the neck bone again maybe with a few names. I have an idea we will become as familiar with those names as we did with the guys in the OJ trial.[/QUOTE]
Post 2723…
Let’s drop the bones analogy.
Drilling Manager - Little - for Houston Drilling operations
Working for Drilling Manager:-
Drilling Operations Manager - Simms
Operations Team(s)
Well Team Leader DWH - Guide
Well operations Drilling Engineer - Morel
WellSite Leaders - Kaluza/Vidrine
Well Drilling & Completions Engineering Manager - Walz
Senior Drilling Engineer - Hafle
(Drilling?) Engineer(s) - Cocales
I need to make a qualification here.
They have more than one rig working in GOM therefore The Well Drilling & Completions Engineering group may be a separate entity and Hafle may be working with the operations teams
[QUOTE=Alf;36545]Post 2723…
Let’s drop the bones analogy.
Drilling Manager - Little - for Houston Drilling operations
Working for Drilling Manager:-
Drilling Operations Manager - Simms
Operations Team(s)
Well Team Leader DWH - Guide
Well operations Drilling Engineer - Morel
WellSite Leaders - Kaluza/Vidrine
Well Drilling & Completions Engineering Manager - Walz
Senior Drilling Engineer - Hafle
(Drilling?) Engineer(s) - Cocales
I need to make a qualification here.
They have more than one rig working in GOM therefore The Well Drilling & Completions Engineering group may be a separate entity and Hafle may be working with the operations teams[/QUOTE]
I would guess all those guys were in the loop on everyday operations concerning DWH. How many layers you think betweenLittle & guys like Suttles & Hayward.
Yes, General Russel Honore’…and he reported,he was just “waiting for the call”, and he was ready, and willing…CNN prob has his interview on their website.