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BP report spreads blame across Gulf spill actors
By: cnn.comPosted On: 09/08/2010 1:01 P
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Oil company BP shouldered some responsibility for the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster Wednesday after an internal investigation of the spill, but assigned much of the blame to contractors Halliburton and Transocean.
Oil company BP shouldered some responsibility for the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster Wednesday after an internal investigation of the spill, but assigned much of the blame to contractors Halliburton and Transocean.
Faulty cementing, a misread pressure test and an improperly maintained blowout preventer all contributed to the April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers aboard the Deepwater Horizon drill rig and uncorked the worst oil spill in U.S. history, BP's nearly 200-page report on the disaster concluded.
"The team did not identify any single action or inaction that caused this accident," BP's report states. "Rather, a complex and interlinked series of mechanical failures, human judgments, engineering design, operational implementation and team interfaces came together to allow the initiation and escalation of the accident. Multiple companies, work teams and circumstances were involved over time."
The company said its team aboard the doomed platform "incorrectly accepted" results of a negative pressure test on the rig before the blast and mistakenly rejected equipment that cement contractor Halliburton requested to complete the well's casing. But as BP executives have done in the past, the report spread a large portion of the blame to Halliburton and to rig owner Transocean, which blasted the findings as "a self-serving report" that tries to distract attention from BP's own flawed well design.
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