Oops! BP and Transocean fighting Over Sharing Data on Spill

[malaise]

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-08-19/bp-hits-back-at-transocean-in-feud-over-sharing-data-on-spill.html
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BP Plc fired back at Transocean Ltd. in a dispute over the withholding of information about possible causes of the Gulf oil spill.

James Neath, BP’s associate general counsel, said an Aug. 18 letter from a Transocean attorney asserting BP wasn’t releasing critical data contained “many false and misleading assertions.”

“Given its content and tone, your letter is nothing more than a publicity stunt evidently designed to draw attention away from Transocean’s potential role in the Deepwater Horizon tragedy,” Neath wrote Steven Roberts, the Transocean attorney, in a response yesterday.

Executives of London-based BP and Vernier, Switzerland- based Transocean have publicly disputed responsibilities for operations of the BP well and the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that it leased from Transocean. The companies engaged in finger- pointing before Congress over steps that may have contributed to the April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers and triggered the largest U.S. oil spill.

[Poboy]

1. Bring on the arrests...

“BP has in its sole possession a significant amount of key information about the well, including real-time data collected by BP at its Houston office, documents, logs, cementing and operational reports, and seismic data that are critical to identifying the cause of the tragic loss of eleven lives and the pollution of the Gulf of Mexico,” Roberts said.

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2. None of BPs records were siezed following the disaster that killed

11 people? Isn't it normal for records to be siezed following this sort of event? I'm asking seriously because I really don't know. I assume that the records would have to be preserved to secure it from evidence tampering, etc.

[Poboy]

3. I would have assumed a lot of things, but look where 'assuming' got us.

Looks like the gov't. is YET AGAIN letting BP run the show. Or actually, BP has ALWAYS run the show.


Trust the Gov't = Trust BP