Alot went wrong to cause the blow out, "the perfect storm" happened....a number of things happened in a sequence that led to the problem, but Trans Oceanic is the main cause, here's why........
I used to work in the offshore
oil industry in the gulf in the late 70's when I got out of school, so I know a little bit about offshore drilling, that with the fact that I talked to a guy that works on a rig within sight of this rig when the blow out occured, and he has a few buddies that were working on Trans Ocenaic rig at the time.........
What they did would take me a while to explain, but the gist of it is they took a very dangerous "short-cut" in plugging a "dry hole" and it backfired on them causing the blow out......It's standard operating procedure/industry standard you never ever do this,espcially when drilling deep water offshore, but they did it anyhow to save time and money, totally Trans Oceanic's call and fault, BP had nothing to do with it.......
BP and other
oil companies contract drilling companies to drill on their lease sites, the contract states they drill X number of holes at X number of feet for a set price, the quicker it's done, the more the drilling company makes.... Trans Oceanic took a very dangerous shortcut and it bit them in the a$$.......The driller and rig foreman should go to jail for what they did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BTW: Trans Oceanic and this rig in particular have a history of violations and safety problems, way above the average........
David
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