BP Deepwater Horizon operations were six weeks behind schedule, documents say

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Source: The Times-Picayune


BP Deepwater Horizon operations were six weeks behind schedule, documents say
By David Hammer, The Times-Picayune
May 26, 2010, 9:48PM

BP's drilling operations were about six weeks behind schedule when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded April 20, according to documents cited Wednesday at a hearing examining the cause of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Reading from BP documents that have not been made public, BP safety leader Steve Tink said his company had applied to use the Deepwater Horizon in another oilfield on March 8, 43 days before the accident.

BP was paying Transocean, the company that leased the rig to BP and ran it on BP's behalf, $533,000 a day, Transocean safety official Adrian Rose testified.

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A top BP official on the rig, Robert Kaluza, asserted his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself in declining to testify tosday. Kaluza's attorney, Shaun Clarke, issued a statement Wednesday saying his client "did no wrong on the Deepwater Horizon, and we will make damn sure that this comes out at the appropriate time."



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Your move, DOJ.

[paparush]

1. 6 weeks behind? Well, surely they weren't cutting corners, were they?

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