Salazar Calls for New Safety Measures for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations

[bnhpr]

How the RCA investigation would read if I were on the team:

Incident : Deepwater Horizon Burns and Sinks

Why: The well blew out

Why: The drilling mud was displaced with seawater

Why: The signs of failed well components were ignored

Why: Failure in the chain of command, BP wellsite leader overriding rig leadership

Root cause: Management failure to support offshore personnel with respect to TOFS (time out for safety) Safety culture breakdown up to and including division management.


See MMS perspective:


http://www.mms.gov/ooc/press/2010/press0527.htm

[RkyMtn Paul]

Ken Salazar is a complete idiot. Between him and Gov Ritter, they all but completely shut down any drilling here in Colorado.