New Orleans – reliability investigation of Gulf is being undermined difficult because oil spill that companies representatives has done or is a piece of evidence in the key — preventer yourself — were too accessible as it is in progress analysis, Federal Panel says.
The United States may be allowed on board safety, monitoring and analysis, demanded a letter head of the Bureau of the ocean, and the 5th energy management, regulation, enforcement and will not stop this test until you remove all the Transocean Vkamron officials practical role of the testing device 300 tons.
An employee of Transocean — the owner of the drilling rig, which exploded in the Bay — was removed as consultant for Norwegian firm that performs the test, but the Ocean Energy Agency says that other companies provided their expertise accordingly. Still there are conflicts claims of the Board.
The Board, as well as other companies and suppliers involved, has been granted access to the test is limited, but he says his representatives have already quit out of tests include multiple delegates of Transocean and international Cameroon, made preventer.
The Board wants the firm leads the test also, Det Norske Veritas, ended or at least was guided by a neutral third party. He also demanded the photographic and video evidence of work conducted at the time of its representatives were closed testing.
"Considering the history well-publicized of improper relationships between minerals management service and former petroleum, one expects an exceptional treatment to be BOP checking over audit," said the Chairman of the Board safety Rafael Moure-Eraso the signal. "One expects, the second set of eyes as the CSB to be appreciated. Unfortunately this is not the case. "
Change the name of the Bureau of ocean energy MMS, regulation and enforcement after both scathing reports by Federal Inspector General. Reports become drug use and sex among executive agency workers and gas industry, oil-drilling hrgoltorim received gifts and negotiate travel companies and gas and go to work in the industry while overseeing it.
An investigation team is shared with the leading self is Bureau team preventer yourself along with the u.s. Coast Guard. Safety Board is an independent federal agency that investigates accidents, serious chemical.
Following the explosion rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 20th April preventer yourself with BP failed to perform the work of the well: stop the flow of oil into the sea. 11 workers were the stove, and some 200 million litres of oil were released by BP undersea well, according to Government estimates that BP disputes.
The device was uploaded from the seafloor on September 4, 16 November and testing process at a facility in New Orleans Lmank. Mostly technicians already have disassembly and made no preventer on your own determination about why he is not working, according to people briefed on the progress, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the investigation.
Preventers yourself any exploratory wells wellhead to sit should lock in place to prevent a spill in the case of an explosion. They are out on your own by squeezing rubber stamps tightly around the pipes with up to 1 million pounds of force. If you fail, your own stamps preventer deploys a last line of Defense: a set of deer slice right through pipes yourself the cap.
In a letter sent earlier this month, Michael Bromwich, Director of the Energy Agency of the ocean, the Safety Board include picture Transocean subsea responsible for Evan, McWhorter, removing RAM pipe top of preventer yourself on 10 December.
Spokeswoman for Agency Bromwich, Melissa Schwartz, said Thursday the firm handling the DNV, check, allowed McWhorter do strong investigators to federal workers. She said that McWhorter has been removed from within days.
Schwartz said that already allowed companies to provide technical expertise through an agreement between the parties for the purpose of answering all questions of technical team DNV testing may have. Representatives of these companies are only observers, and the test is not involved, she said.
Transocean said in a brief e-mail to confirm my Safety Board are completely moprcht "charges". Did not elaborate.
Det Norske Veritas spokesman, Collins Blaine, said in an e-mail message to THE AP that he could not comment, with regard to questions of agency Bromwich.
Besides the Board, Cameron, Transocean, others allowed to monitor the test are BP, the Justice Department, and an expert representing the plaintiffs result in severe civil and criminal legal of oil spill in New Orleans multi-district.
