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Cindy To: \Mrlf,GaryT; McDonald, Leith;Grounds, W CherylA.;Yeilding, Summary of Interim Academy Engineering Subiect RE: National lmporlance:Normal But we know with reasonable cerlainty that the flow was up the casing both initially and during the event. The Brock investigationteam had also proved to themselves sometime before the kill operatiolls that the initial flow was up the casing. PaulTooms \D Engineering +44 59'l Mobilephone number: (0) 7'18 3421 Middlesex TWl6 H Road Address: Exploration BP Operating Conrpany Building Chertsey Sunbury-on-Thames Ltd
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scientiticpanel saysBP andits contractors WASHINGTON_A new report ttom an independent missedand ignored key warning signsand faitedto fully recognizeimportantrisks in the daysand hours leadingup to the massiveGulf of Mexico oil well blowout. appearmore critical ofBP, the owner of the well, thari preliminary Someof the panel'sconclusions oil findings issuedlast week by the presidential spill commission. that savedtime it found no cvidcncethat employees That commission saidwhile BP madedecisions which issuedthe consciouslychosesavingmoneyover safety.The National Acadernyof Engineering, failed to manage risks and didn't evenhave a latest report, saidBP and othersinvolvedin the disaster systemin placeto weigh safetyagainstcosts. and BP itself also are Severalentities,includingthe Coast Guard,the JusticeDepartment,Congress

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looking into the @usesof the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history' The various inquiries have so far come up with similar core findings: That BP and its partnersmisread critical pressuretests, that the cementjob meantto sealthe well didn't work, and that the blowout preventer failed to stop the gusher as designed. yet the investigationsvary sharply in emphasisand tone. BP's internal investigation spreadthe blame around, saying its partnerson the doomed rig sharedresponsibility.The presidentialpanel said a cascadeoffailures, not any singledecision,led to the disaster. The engineeringacademy,which issuedits report late Tuesday,focusedon flawed and risky decision-making.It said that the companiesinvolved downplayedthe risks of deepwaterdrilling even as they insistedthey never compromisedsafety. ''A great number of decisions,all of which appearto us to be questionable.,. also appearedto be justified by those individuals and those companiesinvolved," said Donald Winte( chairmanof the l5-member panel. The reasonsbehind the differencesin the panels'findingsare unclear.But they may have somethingto do with who is doing the investigatingand why. The presidentialpanel included academicsand an environmentalistbut is led by a former Democratic sonatorand a former EPA administrator who served during the George H.W. Bush administration.The academypanel is composedentirely of scientistsand BP's panelwas made up of BP employees. marine, petroleum, and chemicalengineers. tasked with looking at just the cause,and not the broader safetyoulture at the companies Some are involved. Others are looking at offshore drilling broadly. Winter. a professor of engineeringpractice at the University of Michigan, said in an interview in Wednesdaythat the behavior leadingup to the oil spill would be consideredunacceptable companies that work with nuclear power or aviation. The committeeis consideringwhether an independent technical authority, similar to that used in the submarineand nuclearfields, would provide critical checks and balances that were lacking. "In an operation like this you have to recognizethe uncertaintiesof where you are going," Winter said. Drilling an exploratory well more than three miles (fwe kilometers) benealhthe ocean'ssurlace involves significant unknowns, such as the undedlng geology. Among the hazardshighlightedin the panel'sreport were severaltests that indicatedthe cementat the bottom of the hole would not be an eftbctive barrier to an influx of oil and gas, More than a month before the disaster,BP also lost drilling materialsdeepin the hole _ a situation that hinted at the risks. challenges the well, but was not usedto address of The report, while similar to previous investigations, does not weigh in on two central points _ the path the oil and gas took to reach the rig and whether the type or mixture of cement was faulty. BP, and the presidentialcommission,both bclievethc flow of oil wenl up thc insidc of thc pipe, not thc sidcs_ a conclusion that puts the blame more on Halliburton Co., the cementcontractor, than on BP's well design.They have also higNighted problemswirh Halliburton'scementmixture and tests with similar blends that suggestedit would fail. The engineeringpanel said that those two points are still in dispute, and insteadreiterated concerns highlighted elsewhereabout BP's decisionto run a singlepiece of pipe from the ocean floor to the well's lo bottom and to use fewer centralizersthan recommended center the pipe during cementing. The report saysit may not be possibleio ever establishexactly what happenedbecausemuch of the evidencewas lost when l I workers died and the rig sunk in April. work and that of the commissionare the result BP said some of the di{ibrencesbetweenthe academy's

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by that ofnew evidence hasyet to be considered theacademy. interimreport of Research CouncilCommittee's "TheNationalAcademy EngineeringAiational but and addresses similarissues the Presidential as Commission BP'sown intemalinvestigation draws said no final conclusions regarding April 20thaccident," company in a newsrelease. the the the Haltiburton Co., in a statement issued Wednesday, that it wasstill reviewing 28-page said made BP mayhavecontributed the to but by document, said"it notesthat a varietyof decisions incident." 20 A final reportis due June t 1. Onlin", http://www. nationalacademies.org This maynot be published, Press. rightsreserved. material All CopyrightO 2010The fusociated rewrittenor redistributed. broadcast, W. Leith McDonald Pipeline Engineer Offshore
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