BP: Series of Calamities Caused Gulf Oil Spill
From AOL News:
BP has concluded that a “sequence of failures” by “multiple companies and work teams” led to the explosion and fire that killed 11 workers and triggered the world’s largest accidental oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year.
“No single factor caused the Macondo well tragedy,” the oil giant said today on its website, where it released results of its internal investigation. The spill arose from “a complex and interlinked series of mechanical failures, human judgments, engineering design, operational implementation and team interfaces,” it said…
BP wasn’t expected to take full blame in this report, and has sought in public hearings to place more responsibility for the disaster on other companies from whom it leased the Deepwater Horizon oil rig or contracted work…
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