[QUOTE=A Cooke;39433]
I have confidence that BP are doing all that anyone could do right now and have been doing for several weeks. What I don’t have, is any confidence that this industry goes about what it does with the level of responsibility commensurate with the consequences. A red hot Alcor, or any number of other competent, diligent and professional individuals, whose heartfelt comments I read here, on the guages every day, every second of every day, making sure that there is no blow out on their rig, is great for that rig, it is not a solution. Somewhere, there will be an idiot that is not awake, not watching. The risk of failure is too close. The capability to interrogate the mode of failure (as we see here - is the casing integrity compromised ?) and take action as a consequence (stick more gaffer tape on the spanner) is not up to the task.
Kent - I am not impressed and again, the gulf between technology applied to extraction and technology applied to dealing with failure, is shown as being huge and incompatible with the nature of the task…[/QUOTE]
I have confidence that BP is doing everything they can to save the share price of their stock & that is the single overriding factor in their present decision making. They were only concerned about cost cutting when they made the decisions to cause this disaster, they have only been concerned about cost cutting since. I am sorry this company has succeeded in making you believe there are no competent operators in the GOM. This is the bigger issue now & will continue to be going forward. This distrust made possible by the negligent actions of one outlaw company & further propagated by an incompetent federal response & oversight of the events which followed can only give one without prior knowledge such a distorted view. I am noit saying you are the problem. I am saying that this whole mess is giving you as well as any other bystanders a distorted viewpoint because all the people in control of what led up to this disaster & the whole response since are completely incompetent. BTW, since so many other comments made by A cooke on the post I am refering to are so accurate, please forgive me if I don’t buy into any more BP rhetoric about how they’re going to have this thing capped off where their won’t be any more flow. Just wake me up when the well is killed. Until then ALL is cheap trickery designed to make it look like “BP is doing everything to make it right.” You want to make it right. Unass the five hours of live E-drill you are hiding from the public. Admit you totally screwed up by putting cost cutting above safety. Admit you lied to make others look like they were in kahoots with you in your efforts to ignore the safety of rig workers & the environment in your dice roll of snake eyes to save yourselves money & look good further up your chain of command, or else give us proof of payoffs & bribes to MMS officials you were in bed with. Admit you lied & misled the public from the beginning of the response to attempt to limit your liability & clean up costs which you were going to inevitably incurr. Admit what you are doing now is probably another attempt to save your sotck price for another week & your jobs for another week & then, maybe then, we the American people will begin to believe that there is hope that you can change. Until then you are nothing more than viscious bloody murderers willing to tell whatever lie you have to, to cover your bloody trail.
Edit: I will again ask the question I asked several weeks ago & have continued to ask & will continue to ask. CAN BP EVER BE TRUSTED TO DRILL ANOTHER WELL IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA? … Personally, I don’t even trust them to do the job on the relief wells. Otherwise why would they be making this move with the new cap when they are so close with the kill well. There is something they are not telling us the SMALL people. I smell another skunk in the wood pile.
