Quote Originally Posted by Carpe Coma View Post

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.