GOM Disaster – Who is to blame?

Talk about large Buffalo POO 😯
You are right of course , This will be swept under the carpet !
More topside management ( Safety first bulletins , HSE hypocracy )
When it suits them 👿
By the way , has anyone noticed that Offshore personnel insurance has gone up since this "Dangerous Industry" had the accident 😯
I hav’na seen the rates go up to match it though 🙁

I don’t particularly care who is to blame, but what I’d like to see is that the series of events that lead up to the disaster are examined and tackled in some way so that this type of disaster cannot happen so readily in future.

In particular any companies found cutting safety corners by way of increasing profits should be taken to task big style.

I read this recently (source withheld). It is, no doubt, not a perfect solution but appears to be one persons take on how drilling safety could be tightened up with nobody being able to be pressurised into doing things, on the safety front, they are not happy about……..

These multi national Oil and Gas organisations do a feel a little pain when fines are imposed, but at nearly $100/barrel they appear to be able to afford to pay the fines so that may not be enough to kick them up their butts.

In future, the threat of an automatic jail term for those sanctioning such breaches of safety offshore to include the land based directors of any company allowing such breaches to knowingly take place might see things erring on the side of safety a little more.

On BOP/Subsea Drilling/Production safety systems.
If a device or equipment has safety mechanisms built in, and one (or more) of those systems has a known fault then that bit of gear should not leave surface until it’s fixed and 100% operational as far as safety goes.
If it slows the drilling program down then so be it.
All safety faults should be recorded at the lowest level and reported.
If the BOP is allowed to leave surface, with a known safety fault then No matter if there was an accident or not the person highest up the chain of command offshore should be summonsed and have to answer in court of law (not an internal company inquiry) as to why safety protocol was compromised. If found guilty they could be jailed. On a drill rig in most instances this would be the company man or the OIM. If either have consulted HQ onshore and those persons have allowed this breach to happen (possibly by applying behind the scenes pressure on the company man or OIM) then the directors onshore should equally be summonsed as well as the responsible person(s)offshore. Those answerable could be the OIM, the company man, the head of the safety department, company directors.