Oil Spill

[Carpe Coma]

But BP has already admiiterd they never had a back up plan for ANY emergency situationthat wouldaride, that alone is Outragious, hope you neevr need one but you always haveto have aplan as back up, you have onei n a house it it catch onfire they sholud have had one inplace before the strared the drilig whther it as an experimentor not, but to openly admit they had not backup plan to me is beyond outragiious "Well folks if we riun inot aproblem gues we wil dealwith ti when it happens" you can't operate aaaaaaaany businesslike th, you lways have to hae som type of back plan
Plus Hailburton is a partnet inthis, this is now brinf called worse the nthe Exxxon Valdez was, thisis thw world evirotmantal accident in history, 5 weeks andand stil no solution

You know, if they did have a backup plan there would be people then making the argument; "They knew this could happen yet they were drilling anyway. Bad bad oil companies".

I seriously doubt they didn't have any emergency plans, instead I bet they just did not have plans for any (every) possible situation. The number one rule of contingency planning is that you can't plan for every contingency.

[DuncanONeil]

They did but they failed!
Could the failures have been prevented? Maybe. Did the safety record of the previous drills in the Gulf give rise to a measure of complacency, probably! Something in excess of 30,000 drills in the Gulf without an accident.

You know, if they did have a backup plan there would be people then making the argument; "They knew this could happen yet they were drilling anyway. Bad bad oil companies".

I seriously doubt they didn't have any emergency plans, instead I bet they just did not have plans for any (every) possible situation. The number one rule of contingency planning is that you can't plan for every contingency.

[leo9]

I seriously doubt they didn't have any emergency plans, instead I bet they just did not have plans for any (every) possible situation. The number one rule of contingency planning is that you can't plan for every contingency.

But you start by making plans for the worst possible ones. And any oil exec who doesn't consider the possibility of a massive spill, anywhere where more than a couple of gallons of oil and the sea are together, is in denial to the point of insanity.

[leo9]

But you start by making plans for the worst possible ones. And any oil exec who doesn't consider the possibility of a massive spill, anywhere where more than a couple of gallons of oil and the sea are together, is in denial to the point of insanity.

And now we learn, in their own words, that they didn't have emergency systems in place because it was a new "experimental" drill, therefore there was no safety record, therefore they classed it as 100% safe. The same kind of mindless box-ticking that gave sub-prime securities AAA credit rating because they hadn't been around long enough to fail.

This is what happens when doctrinaire capitalists regard government regulations simply as barriers to be overcome, by cheating if possible.

[DuncanONeil]

But you start by making plans for the worst possible ones. And any oil exec who doesn't consider the possibility of a massive spill, anywhere where more than a couple of gallons of oil and the sea are together, is in denial to the point of insanity.

Perhaps! But are you willing to consider that a massive explosion was, at best, the smallest of items of concern?