Who here works for BP?

Have done work for them on Thunder Horse platform, One of the most anal of the majors about safety ironically, im talking all the way down to the small shite. Can also say that most of the company men were assholes, hated doing work for them. Never been around any of there drilling though.

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One of the most anal of the majors about safety ironically, im talking all the way down to the small shite.

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What do you mean, specifically? Give an example.

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Can also say that most of the company men were assholes, hated doing work for them.

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Is this (company men being arrogant dicks) not the status quo throughout the industry?

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I work for BP

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So answer the questions...

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from what I've heard from friends that work in the BP office, they are crazy anal about safety in every facet of their business.....even with the office workers.

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This is true for every major O&G company.

But there is a difference between having safety programs & preaching safety for the sake of saying you preach safety, and TRULY having a safety CULTURE!

You can talk about it all you want, but at the end of the day, if your boss pulls you aside and asks "Why is this well taking so long?" right after commending you publically for not having any safety incidents, then you know how your bread is going to be buttered.

That being said, a true safety CULTURE is insanely difficult to attain...even if the upper-mgmt of the company desires it.

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Luke4LSU

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Easy bro.

I understand a lot of people are mad about this. I'm one of them. However, screaming, finger pointing and calling for heads to roll will only detract from the quality of information on this board. This is the best place I have found for getting information about the spill because the admins keep it civil.

You kind of came out of the blue with all the anger, did something happen recently?

I don't work for BP but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

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I don't work for BP but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

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its wrong, but i

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You kind of came out of the blue with all the anger, did something happen recently?

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Because of BP's incompetence (at least to some extent), my state is catching it in the goat arse.

First environmentally. Now economically. The O&G and fishing/hunting industries are both fricked (at LEAST for the short term), adn that's ALL Louisiana had going for it.

I've given them the benefit of the for several weeks, and I still maintain that they're doing everything they can to address the well.

That being said, they should turn complete control of the spill response over to the USCG and other agencies and focus on the well IMO. BP is NOT in the business of protecting ecosystems from oil in the water.

My beef with BP is that they're making everyone in the O&G industry look stupid, and are responding to it arrogantly, IMO. They have undermined all of the effort that the industry has made over teh past decades to shift public perception towards the O&G industry NOT being evil and not interested in safety.

It just pisses me off.

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Luke4LSU

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Pump the brakes big guy

I can agree with all of that.