Friday, May 28, 2010

It also seems farily obvious to me, from the testimony, that BP is very autocratic based on 'fiscal strategy.'

What do I mean by that?

The testimony to date has revealed a 'crew' in 'observation' of the dynamics of the rig and its drilling into Earth.  The vat in the case of the Deepwater Horizon is over 3 miles below the surface of the ocean floor which is one mile below the sea surface. 

Drilling that deep in to the crust of Earth can be interesting, but, also very dangerous.  A single jointed metal structure 4 miles long gets respect from the people that are working around it.  So, it seemed to me the crew and their supervisors were very 'in tune' to the way the drilling was proceeding.

When they decided to call off the continuation of the drilling, it was the right thing to do based on their observations and sensitivity to the work environment.

The danger became worse when BP demanded they proceed to 'maintain a schedule.'  I have no doubt (and that is testimony or records we may never see without formal proceedings) that schedule was based upon 'fiscal ambitions' at BP with top decision makers.

It was still up to TransOcean to simply state "NO" to BP, which they didn't do.

But, it was the autocratic, probably predetermined decisions, that caused this entire calamity.

A decision tree, if you will.

It is why the workmen / women need to have contact with higher authority to relay 'facts' to 'adversity' when 'decision tree - autocratic' mechanisms are at work that do not react to 'conditions on the ground.' 

The industry has problems.  Lots of them.  From working conditions to what they are calling 'good enough research' to proceed with deep water exploration and drilling. 

If the petroleum industry was up to actually running deep water drilling well, there would be 'evidence' to that effect and not just 'dumb luck' that it hasn't happened elsewhere.

I sincerely believe it is the conditions of the oil and methane that will prove to be the underlying cause to the explosion contributed by 'lax standards.'  

This was 'exploration.'  There should have been complete control by Transocean and the Deepwater Horizon as they knew the 'conditions' on an 'exploration' contract.