Tuesday, June 15, 2010

BP engineer internal email: Doomed rig is nightmare well

Huffington Post:



WASHINGTON (AP) -- BP took measures to cut costs in the weeks before the catastrophic blowout in the Gulf of Mexico as it dealt with one problem after another, prompting a BP engineer to describe the doomed rig as a "nightmare well," according to internal documents released Monday.


The comment by BP engineer Brian Morel came in an e-mail April 14, six days before the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion that killed 11 people and has sent tens of millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf in the nation's worst environmental disaster.


The e-mail was among dozens of internal documents released by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is investigating the explosion and its aftermath.


Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig: BP E-mail Calls It 'Nightmare Well' -

1 comment:

KittyBowTie1 said...

Yeah, I bet nobody is surprised about this.