BP Slick: Un Freakin Believable!

Yes, I did. I have been working as a safety officer and it hits you in the stomach to read things like that. You have to be on the take to overlook all the safety violations.

On one hand, their testimonies showed so many violations. Just check on the BOP maintenance records. yet they can still say

...we recorded the best year in safety performance in our Company's history, which is a reflection on our commitment to achieving an incident free environment, all the time, everywhere.

If 2010 was their best safety performance and you ended up up with DWH blowout, I just wondered what their worst safety performance year would be like?

Things like these make you vomit. I wrote to my boss in early 2009, saying that if the best and largest geohazards contractors are overlooking drilling risks and hazards at the behest of the oil companies, then we are in real trouble. Months later, we had the Montara Platform blowout and oil spill in Australia, then the blowout and near-miss disaster in the North Sea, the drilling problems at Macondo Well A in Oct 2009 and others.

I mean when one airline reported a near-miss disaster, all the airlines in the world would be checking and making sure the same problem does not occur on one of their own aircraft. It was the same in the oil industry. After the Piper Alpha disaster in 1988, all the oil companies and drillers bucked up their safety measures.

So after the Montara Oil Spill in Sept 2009, should the oil companies not do the same? Why? Is it because there was no public outcry to the spill that destroyed thousands if not millions of marine life? In piper Alpha, more than 40 field crew were dead but with less marine life casualty.

The Gulf disaster killed only 11 people on the rig but committed thousands others to a life of "walking dead" and killed the gulf and all of its marine life. It is more devastating environmentally but Piper Alpha holds the record of being the Worst Offshore accident not DWH.

It all depends on how the Paid Main Stream were paid to report. 90% of the world see through their reporting eyes (or lies- aka distorted or left out facts). Honest reporting which are not paid but committed to telling the truth were trashed and silenced by paid trolls.

Yeah have seen her articles. Pretty good. Had not much time online to comment yet. Will do some time later.

TR, I was sick more than 5 years ago when the widespread safety violations and outright frauds I reported fell on deaf ears.

A lot of things were wrong with the industry. "people" making unscrupulous amount of money just by shifting papers and putting fictitious numbers. The worst are the safety officers - many of whom were directly employed by the top management. It is like the "emperor" employing their own imperial guards - they spy for their employers more than they care about the safety on ground levels. There are 2 sets of laws - minor infringement by crew were hauled up and used to show case SAFETY Policy in action but the real infringment like insurance frauds, medical frauds and all sorts of frauds that make tons of secret money (tax free) were ignored.

I tell you these frauds are more profitable than selling drugs. You literally make money out of thin air. For example you have operation managers taking 20% of the charter rates of hired personnel. So freelanced or bodyshop personnel are preferred over the company employees. Disasters are highly profitable because the recovery operations are prone to all sorts of manipulations for profits because there is no set precedence. If they can make money out of regular operations with established rules, think how much more they can make when there are no rules.

The higher oil prices only make all the illegal profit maneuvers more lucrative. Unlike illegal conventional mafia, these "people" wine and dined in posh places, lived among us and are highly regarded in society. The oil mafia is more sophisticated and lucrative than the old drug mafia.

why apologise only after the public outcry? Didn't they think before awarding the bonuses and proudly announcing their best performance. You can lie to A about B or lie to B about A but you cannot lie to both A and B at the same time. The lies would not be consistent. It shows the power of truth blogging. You can't bull@!$%# to all the people all the time....sigh ... if only people will bother to read.

Thanks brother mountain, for your confirmation that I am not crazy. If I am, then millions around the world would have to be. Their crime - reading too much. heh....heh.