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Originally Posted by rmay635703
remember though think about the short and long term positive profit effects this risky behavior would have gained and generally no one would have been the wiser should it have worked.
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You see, this is the type of thing that I was talking about.
What risky behaviour? Tell me
exactly what risk you'd rather they didn't take. There's absolutely been zero information released regarding failure mode analysis and there won't be until they've recovered the rig and BOP for a forensic analysis. And quite rightly so. Anything up until that point is purely speculation and mud slinging by various people/organisations with alternative agendas.
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Originally Posted by pgmomni
the "fact" it happened due to corp greed as opposed to direct anti-USA terrorist aggression totally affects the reaction and consequences of the disaster. "Its was a accident", probally avoidable with proper and ethically corp behavior on BP's part. So the usual, capitalist methods and procedures have been "utilized" to "fix it". Costs being a major factor.
NOW, if it had been a anti-American terrorist attack the current administration would have had the political backing OR political advantage to use ALL available resources to "fix it".
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Again. There are no facts available as yet. So your assertion that it was down to corporate greed is pure speculation. It'll all come out in the wash and there won't be any individual single failing. It'll be a dozen or more separate failings that all together add up to this. That's always the way. It was the same with Piper Alpha, Flixborough etc etc. Trust me, I've read enough of this sort of thing.
As for the perception (reading between the lines in some of the posts here) that bp puts profit today/this month/this year ahead of any long term company gain is complete nonsense. They're drilling these wells to operate them for 20+ years. One disaster like this will wipe all the profits from this well for it's lifetime. Why take the slightest chance on that for the sake of a few $$ spent today? It's madness and bg oil doesn't make decisions like that.
The US govt and a dozen other organisations will currently be picking their way through all the risk assessments, safety case files, previous industry disaster reports etc etc etc to see what went wrong, why and how did we/they miss it. It will not be as simple as bp decided to x/t/z to save $100 today.