更新時間 2010年 6月 21日, 格林尼治標準時間13:25
BP聲稱已經花費了20億美元來治理漏油。英國石油公司BP的一名深海石油鑽井平台的工作人員對BBC表示他在墨西哥灣的漏油事件之前就注意到鑽井平台安全裝置出現了洩漏。
這位名叫本森的工作人員說，BP和負責鑽井平台的跨洋公司都得到了通知，但是洩漏裝置沒有被修理，有關部門把出現問題的系統關閉，而依賴於另外一個裝置。
得克薩斯大學的帕塞克教授指出，「這是完全不可接受的。如果見到堵住油井的裝置不正常運行，那就要不計任何代價地停止鑽探進行修理。」
本森指出，他不清楚在漏油事件之前有關方面是否修理了出現洩漏的裝置。
他說，要修理這個控制裝置，就意味著暫時要停止在平台上的開採工作。而在深海平台上運行，BP每天需要耗資50萬美元。
BP表示，平台的合同方跨洋公司負責有關係統的運行和維修。
跨洋公司則表示，在鑽井平台爆炸之前三天他們對系統檢修過，一切正常。
在漏油事件發生當日，本應在緊急狀態堵住油井的機械裝置失效。
負責監督對漏油事件進行調查的美國眾議員瓦克斯曼早些時候指責BP為了節省費用而在安全問題上走捷徑。
BP首席執行官海沃德（中文名：唐熙華）表示，我到目前沒有看到任何證據顯示有任何人把省錢放在安全之上。如果有的話，我們一定會採取措施。
BP指出到目前為止已經花費了20億美元來治理漏油問題。
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/trad/world/2010/06/100621_bp_worker.shtml
英國石油公司警覺到裂縫在油井爆炸前兩個月
BP Aware Of Cracks In Oil Well Two Months Before Explosion
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Former BP Chairman and current BP CEO both dumped stocks in weeks before disaster
前BP董事長和現任BP行政總裁兩者都在災害前數週拋售股票
BP was aware of cracks appearing in the Macondo well as far back as February, right around the time Goldman Sachs and BP Chairman Tony Hayward were busy dumping their stocks in the company on the eve of the explosion that led to the oil spill, according to information uncovered by congressional investigators.
The Mining and Mineral Services agency released documents to Bloomberg indicating that BP “was trying to seal cracks in the well about 40 miles (64 kilometers) off the Louisiana coast,” according to the report.
The fissures, which BP began to attempt to fix on February 13, could have played a role in the disaster, though this is a question still being explored by investigators. Improperly sealed, the cracks cause explosive natural gas to rush up the shaft.
“The company attempted a “cement squeeze,” which involves pumping cement to seal the fissures, according to a well activity report. Over the following week the company made repeated attempts to plug cracks that were draining expensive drilling fluid, known as “mud,” into the surrounding rocks,” states the report.
As we previously highlighted, eyewitness evidence indicates that Deepwater Horizon managers knew that the BP oil rig had major problems before its explosion on April 20. A crew member who rescued burning workers on the rig told Houston attorney Tony Buzbee of a conversation between Deepwater Horizon installation manager Jimmy Harrell and someone in Houston. According to the witness, Harrell was screaming, “Are you fucking happy? Are you fucking happy? The rig’s on fire! I told you this was gonna happen.”
The fact that BP managers were aware of problems with the rig and were seemingly unconcerned about fixing them only lends more weight to the already startling indications of some having foreknowledge of the disaster.
As we highlighted last week, on page 37 of British Petroleum’s own investigative report into the oil spill, it is stated that the Hydraulic Control System on equipment designed to automatically seal the well in an emergency was modified without BP’s knowledge sometime before the explosion.
Highly suspicious stock and share trades by people connected to BP before the explosion indicate some extent of foreknowledge.
Goldman Sachs dumped 44% of its shares in BP Oil during the first quarter of 2010 – shares that subsequently lost 36 percent of their value, equating to $96 million. The current chairman of Goldman Sachs is Bilderberg luminary Peter Sutherland, who is also the former chairman of British Petroleum.
Furthermore, as reported by the London Telegraph on June 5th, Tony Hayward, the current BP CEO sold £1.4 million of his shares in the fuel giant weeks before the spill.
On April 12th, just over one week before the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, Halliburton, the world’s second largest oilfield services corporation, surprised some by acquiring Boots & Coots, a relatively small but vastly experienced oil well control company.
Halliburton is named in the majority of some two dozen lawsuits filed since the explosion by Gulf Coast people and businesses who claim that the company is to blame for the disaster.
Halliburton was forced to admit in testimony at a congressional hearing last month that it carried out a cementing operation 20 hours before the Gulf of Mexico rig went up in flames. The lawsuits claim that four Halliburton workers stationed on the rig improperly capped the well.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/bp-aware-of-cracks-in-oil-well-two-months-before-explosion.html
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