Things that make you angry:
At a hearing in New Orleans, the highest ranking official on the Deepwater Horizon testified that he had a disagreement with BP officials on the rig before the explosion.
Jimmy Harrell, a manager who was in charge of the rig, owned by Transocean, said he had expressed concern that BP did not plan to conduct a pressure test before sealing the well closed.
Yeah, I think you might want to have some idea of the pressure when you’re sealing a well in 5,000 feet of water.
It was unclear from Mr. Harrell’s testimony whether the disagreement took place on the day of the explosion or the previous day.
Either way, kind of a ‘I told you so” moment.
The investigative hearings have grown increasingly combative. Three scheduled witnesses have changed their plans to testify, according to the Coast Guard. Robert Kaluza, a BP official on the rig on the day of the explosion, declined to testify on Thursday by invoking his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself.
Another top ranking BP official, Donald Vidrine, and James Mansfield, Transocean’s assistant marine engineer on the Deepwater Horizon, both told the Coast Guard that they had medical conditions.
Let us know what decisions were made? Not today, I’ve got a headache. What kind of medical condition allows you to work on a rig but not sit in a chair and talk to people?
Apparently, the Top Kill plan has not yet succeeded. It hasn’t failed either, but I am not feeling a lot of confidence on the part of the people who are making statements.
