On 5/2/2010 10:53 PM, Matt wrote:
I recall reading in early news articles of this incident, that BP had
considered an event of this scale and nature in their risk analysis to
create a response plan, but discarded it as they considered it extremely
unlikely to occur - their high priced talent crossed it off the list of
possible occurrences.

When a company puts an oil rig in place to exercise its American rights
license, do they file a disaster / reaction plan with some US Agency ?
And if so, does that Agency review the plan and respond with an acceptance
or denial of permission to proceed with drilling?

Now for my cynical thoughts on this ...
If there is, does said Agency have any authority or is toothless
administrative appendage?
If there is no Agency, look at the opportunity to create new employment !
If there is such an Agency, maybe there will be some restructuring happening
soon, with some replacement hirings.

Or maybe calmer heads will prevail and instead of looking for excuses to
create new boondoggles or axe the blameless, they'll figure out what
went wrong and fix the design of the BOP so that it doesn't happen again.

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On 2010-05-02 20:17:06 -0400, said:

What ya' want...I see no reason for shutting anything down...any venture
w/ reward has risk. Once the event analysis is done, whatever is
learned will be extended.

Yeah, but wouldn't it be great if some of theis high-priced "talent"
could think this **** through before hand? Or maybe we just misheard it
all -- and it was "Spill, baby, spill!"


They can and do think of everything. Just as the Titanic is unsinkable,
every engineering possibility will be considered.

As long as humans engineer and build things, they will continue to break.