... so? theyll just swap bosses.

 

Exactly...... and Obama will look good to the USA electorate whilst supporting one of their biggest fund raisers (Exxon) a good ole' US of A oil company to pick up the share of the spoils after doing his best to destroy BP.

 

... and isn't it funny that Obama did not do too much vocally until after Cameron (The ConDem coalition) told him we would not put more troops into the Helmand provence in Afghanistan as Obama requested.

 

It must be odd for the President of the USA to have a UK leader saying no to the President of America. :lol:

Exactly...... and Obama will look good to the USA electorate whilst supporting one of their biggest fund raisers (Exxon) a good ole' US of A oil company to pick up the share of the spoils after doing his best to destroy BP.

 

... and isn't it funny that Obama did not do too much vocally until after Cameron (The ConDem coalition) told him we would not put more troops into the Helmand provence in Afghanistan as Obama requested.

 

It must be odd for the President of the USA to have a UK leader saying no to the President of America. :lol:

 

You know what though Rich, FUKK BP (see article)...... <_<

 

BP was told of oil safety fault 'weeks before blast'

Page last updated at 06:19 GMT, Monday, 21 June 2010 07:19 UK

E-mail this to a friendPrintable version By Hilary Andersson

BBC Panorama, Washington

 

The oil slick now covers an area of sea the size of Scotland A Deepwater Horizon rig worker has told the BBC that he identified a leak in the oil rig's safety equipment weeks before the explosion.

 

Tyrone Benton said the leak was not fixed at the time, but that instead the faulty device was shut down and a second one relied on.

 

BP said rig owners Transocean were responsible for the operation and maintenance of that piece of equipment.

 

Transocean said it tested the device successfully before the accident.

 

Meanwhile, BP has said its costs in tackling the disaster have now risen to $2bn (£1.34bn).

 

'Unacceptable'

On 20 April, when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded killing 11 people, the blowout preventer, as the device is known, failed.

 

Tyrone Benton: 'We saw a leak'

The most critical piece of safety equipment on the rig, they are designed to avert disasters just like the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

 

The blowout preventer (BOP) has giant shears which are designed to cut and seal off the well's main pipe. The control pods are effectively the brains of the blowout preventer and contain both electronics and hydraulics. This is where Mr Benton said the problem was found.

 

"We saw a leak on the pod, so by seeing the leak we informed the company men," Mr Benton said of the earlier problem he had identified. "They have a control room where they could turn off that pod and turn on the other one, so that they don't have to stop production."

 

Professor Tad Patzek, petroleum expert at the University of Texas, was blunt in his assessment: "That is unacceptable. If you see any evidence of the blowout preventer not functioning properly, you should fix it by whatever means possible."

 

Mr Benton said his supervisor e-mailed both BP and Transocean about the leaks when they were discovered.

 

Daily costs

 

He said he did not know whether the leaking pod was turned back on before the disaster or not.

 

 

Tony Hayward looks like a dead chief executive walking

Robert Peston

 

BBC business editor

 

He said to repair the control pod would have meant temporarily stopping drilling work on the rig at at time when it was costing BP $500,000 (£337,000) a day to operate the Deepwater Horizon.

 

Henry Waxman, a House of Representatives Democrat who is overseeing congressional investigations into the rig disaster, has accused BP of taking safety shortcuts to save money.

 

"BP appears to have made multiple decisions for economic reasons that increased the danger of a catastrophic well failure," Mr Waxman said.

 

BP chief executive Tony Hayward, giving evidence to Congress, said: "There is nothing I have seen in the evidence so far that suggests that anyone put cost ahead of safety, if there are then we will take action."

 

Congress has identified numerous other problems with the blowout preventer, including design problems, unexpected modifications and a flat battery.

 

Cement job

 

The other major problems on the rig, Congress has said, centred around the cement job. Cement in an oil well blocks explosive gases from escaping, and it appears the cement may not have set properly on the Deepwater Horizon.

 

BP said it had indications of a successful cementing operation and the company that was in charge of the cement job, Halliburton, has said it was consistent with that used in similar applications.

 

Several rig workers the BBC spoke to who were on the Deepwater Horizon said there was pressure in April to work fast.

 

Work to prepare and then seal the well was behind schedule and had to be completed before a production rig could move in and start turning profits.

 

"Too many jobs were being done at one time. It should have just really slowed down and just took one job at a time, to make sure everything was done the way it should have been," said Mr Benton, who is now suing BP and Transocean for negligence.

 

BP has responded to Mr Benton's account saying Transocean was responsible for both the maintenance and operation of the blowout preventer.

 

If this is indeed true, well, sorry, but BP are the scum of the Earth (along with Haliburton too, oh surprise surprise, THEY crop up again innit...), and they ARE grossly negligent and culpable in the deaths of these workers.....

 

Some people at the top need to start going to prison for this sh"t, whether it be BP or Haliburton, preferably both.....

 

I wont argue with you on Exxon, they're maggots too, them and Shell are responsible for an even worse environmental disaster in the Niger delta, and head need to roll on that one as well.. I just get the impression that you're turning into somewhat of an apologist for BP.... If BP is destroyed, it will deserve it as far as I'm concerned... One big Multinational company going down for what its done to the planet is a good start as far as I'm concerned.... -_-

 

 

But BP is just as much American as it is British! The majority of its employees are American for instance.

 

Exactly... "BP" is NOT a British company anymore, so, sorry, all this flag-waving, "rule Britannia" bullsh"t is just that, bullsh"t.... One multinational organisation is pretty much like another really, and Oil companies are the worst Corporate, Capitalist scum out there, the likes of McDonalds, etc, are amateurs compared to the Big Oil companies... If BP falls, hell mend them, it's a good start, and hopefully Exxon, Shell and Haliburton will follow them into oblivion...

 

And, sorry, this is no mere "accident" as Rob and Richard would suggest, I have posted an article above which PROVES BP knew that there was a problem because it was reported to them... Accident my arse, it's sheer fukkin' NEGLIGENCE, and the deaths of those workers are Negligent Homicide as far as I'm concerned....

 

Of course, America IS being hypocritical, as a nation, they are the WORST polluters on the planet.. Perhaps if they got their obese, lardy arses out of their SUVs once in a while and actually WALKED places, or used public transport, there would be less rapacious demand for oil... In fact, we should be focussing away from petroleum and onto alternate sources of fuel for our cars, etc... Oh, but of course, "Big Oil" aint gonna like that is it....? I think the character Daniel Day Lewis played in the absolutely brilliant film "There Will Be Blood" absolutely punctuates and personifies the total immorality of the oil industry....

f*** BP.

 

This is all. Obama should be criticizing them even more. So screw off with that $h!t.