On 05/21/2010 09:15 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > >> That's not what the 60 Minutes report concludes. >> >> The problems with the blowout preventer could possibly be laid to >> incompetence, but that would have been recoverable if BP hadn't been >> pushing for speed all the way down the line. >> >> As I read it, there was some bad luck, there were some things that >> didn't work out right, but it was the overarching demand to go faster >> that exacerbated everything and ultimately blew it up into a disaster. >> . . . > > That's what I meant by incompetence. They made it a rush job and ignored > the fact that the blowout preventer gasket had been shredded. Those are > incredibly stupid things to do. > > What I meant was, this was not caused by a design flaw, or by subtle > problems than an expert might fail to notice. When they saw pieces of > rubber from the blowout preventer coming up with the mud, and they saw > that one of the controllers was dead, they should have stopped right > there and fixed the equipment.
But stopping for a while to make repairs was not an option, because BP's rush to drill faster had busted up the bottom of the first well they drilled, forcing them to start all over, and so the whole project was two weeks behind schedule... Seems to be a pattern here.
