Very Interesting Rumor

yeah this would really suck..

does SLB want to throw BP under the bus?

Spud McConnel also made mention of this rumor this afternoon on his radio show (WWL). Did not mention any company names or such, but did say he heard a group of guys from a certain company expressed concern and wanted to be flown off the rig. The group ended up calling their company head quarters who set up a flight off the rig. 6 hrs later, the rig exploded.

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Spud McConnel also made mention of this rumor this afternoon on his radio show (WWL). Did not mention any company names or such, but did say he heard a group of guys from a certain company expressed concern and wanted to be flown off the rig. The group ended up calling their company head quarters who set up a flight off the rig. 6 hrs later, the rig exploded.

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In other words, Spud is reading our message board...

Hello, Spud!

I guess this TP article relates to at least part of the story.

LINK

Just heard the US attorney general is starting up a criminal investigation.

Here's an interesting comment:

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Me Says:

May 31st, 2010 at 23:36
I have spent the last little while reading the comments and the article. Great article by the way.

I have been in the Oil and Gas industry for all of my adult life mostly in directional drilling and engineering. Whoever thinks you can’t “order” company men to do something is lacking in knowledge. I, myself, personally have ordered company men to do something based on my knowledge and based on what my “expertise” is which is directional drilling. Company men don’t know everything and aren’t the king of the patch as some might think. If the oil and gas company could do it all then they would have no reason to hire service companies like SLB, Halliburton, Baker, etc for certain applications. I read a comment that said “service companies like SLB can get a job and they have to leave” that is untrue. If SLB is contracted to do a job say on the Deepwater Horizon they’re there until the job is done. Period end of story. I happen to work for one such company and we’re at the rig both onshore and offshore until the job is done. SLB has a policy that if they feel things are unsafe they can and will leave the job without notice. I work for SLB and can tell you from first hand knowledge of what we were doing on the DWH that management at SLB told the crew and I quote “We’re done with that job whether it’s completed or not, we don’t want our fingerprints on it when something bad happens because of John Wayne”. Take it for what it’s worth. When all is said and done BP and the engineer/co-man will be standing alone. Decisions were made on that platform that shouldn’t have EVER been made and some great people lost their lives because of it.

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I'm starting to think this rumor has legs....

This rumor was floating around my office like a month ago. Glad to know it may be more than that.

Keep in mind that CBLs are not required by MMS. They would have planned to run CBLs with the completions rig.