An interim report released today by the National Academy of Engineering lays out a series of failures that led to the Deepwater Horizon explosion and resulting oil spill.
The report isn’t pretty. It points to “failures and missed indications of hazard,” “insufficient checks and balances” on safety and a More…
I just received a long email from a woman named Theresa Goins, from Bon Secour, Ala. Her fiance, James Martin, has been waiting to receive compensation from the Gulf Coast Claims Facility for months. A commercial fisherman, Martin sustained himself after the oil spill by working for the Vessels of More…
Fred Bartlit, chief counsel for the national oil spill commission, chided reporters today, arguing they misinterpreted one of his key preliminary findings about the Macondo well blowout.
Bartlit said he found no evidence that anybody working on the Macondo well consciously prioritized cost-cutting over safety, but he left open More…
In closing remarks after a marathon meeting of the national oil spill commission, co-chairman William Reilly blamed a “culture of complacency” for the massive Gulf oil spill.
He placed blame both on the oil industry for not adequately self-regulating and on Congress for underfunding the Minerals Management Service, the now-defunct More…
It was only a matter of time before somebody pushed back against assertions by staff for the national oil spill commission today that there is no evidence that BP or any other company involved with the Macondo well blowout sacrificed safety in order to save money.
Rep. Edward Markey More…
The Obama administration released a notice today specifying the terms of a new requirement that the operator of any new deepwater drilling project sign a statement confirming that it has met all new safety regulations.
The four-page notice to lessees (NTL) also specifies that any operator of a new More…
Staff for the national oil spill commission released preliminary conclusions today regarding the cause of the April 20 Macondo well blowout, which led eventually to the massive Gulf oil spill.
Commission staff said they have found no evidence to suggest that there was an effort by BP or any More…
Fred Bartlit, chief counsel for the national oil spill commission, said today that his investigation into the causes of the massive Gulf oil spill has been limited by the panel’s lack of subpoena power.
In a lengthy presentation on the April 20 blow out of the Macondo well, Bartlit More…
Staff at a meeting of the national oil spill commission today seemed perplexed as to why rig workers did not recognize that a key pressure test failed shortly before the April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon.
“Why would these men not have realized that this was a bad pressure More…
At the fifth meeting of the national oil spill commission today, Fred Bartlit, the commission’s chief counsel, and his staffers are painting a detailed portrait of the events surrounding the April 20 explosion of the Macondo well that led to the Gulf oil spill.
The meeting comes two weeks after More…
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