US Congress Energy Committee Letter to BP CEO
While the investigation of BP’s oil spill disaster is ongoing, a lot of rumors on what would be the possible cause of blow out and who is responsible for it is still unclear. United State congress is forming the investigation committee for Oil spill disaster and i can manage to download the letter from Investigation committee to BP’s CEO. Some of the salient point they found are;
“At the time of the blowout, the Macondo well was significantly behind schedule. This
appears to have created pressure to take shortcuts to speed finishing the well. In particular, the
Committee is focusing on five crucial decisions made by BP: (I) the decision to use a well
design with few barriers to gas flow; (2) the failure to use a sufficient number of “centralizers” to
prevent channeling during the cement process; (3) the failure to run a cement bond log to
evaluate the effectiveness of the cement job; (4) the failure to circulate potentially gas-bearing
drilling muds out of the well; and (5) the failure to secure the wellhead with a lockdown sleeve
before allowing pressure on the seal from below. The common feature of these five decisions is
that they posed a trade-off between cost and well safety.”
The whole document include 14 pages. You can download it from
http://energycommerce.house.gov/documents/20100614/Hayward.BP.2010.6.14.pdf
