globalwarmingsb.org » Blow Out Preventer http://www.globalwarmingsb.org Science? You Can Help! Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:10:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Could the BP Oil Leak Have Been Prevented? http://www.globalwarmingsb.org/could-the-bp-oil-leak-have-been-prevented-111 http://www.globalwarmingsb.org/could-the-bp-oil-leak-have-been-prevented-111#comments Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:55:48 +0000 Glen http://www.globalwarmingsb.org/?p=111 BP are still very much in the headlines, especially after their Boss, Tony Hayward, took this weekend off from the Oil scandal to go sailing with his son. The problems for BP just seem to be getting worse and worse and a deepwater horizon rig worker has now spoken out claiming that he had spotted a leak in the safety equipment of the rig, just weeks before the explosion.

There still seems to be a blame culture throughout the whole episode with BP stating that the rig owners Transocean were responsible for testing and maintaining the safety equipment. Had all the safety equipment been working as expected, a piece of machinery known as the Blow Out Preventer (BOP) should have cut off and sealed the wells pipe.

BP’s total cost as a result of the disaster now totals $1.34 billion and is set to cost a lot more as the clean up procedure continues and the investigation into what went wrong and who is to blame continues.

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