BP Wasn't an Accident

For what it's worth info.

My dad was a drilling contractor in the oil business and I have waisted a great deal of time around the rig floor.

A couple of things to think about.

That rig had over a hundred gas sniffers located at the water line , power plant, crew quarters throughout the platform. Alarms would sound way before explosive level of gas would be reached. I've confirmed this with my partner who was a mud logger and worked offshore. Mud loggers use a hot wire gas detector and gas chromatography to measure slight changes in gas coming through the drill stem in the drilling fluids(mud) and collect sample cuttings. The mud loggers alarms would have gone off first.

Most blow outs occur when the drill string penetrates an unexpected gas pocket and are using underweighted drilling mud. We know that this wasn't the case here.

I've been around wells drilled by majors. They have safety meetings. The safety meetings have safety meetings. They have procedure books that explain company policies for every situation. When the mud logger found pieces of the BOP (blow out preventer) any rig run by any small independent (onshore) would have weighted up the drilling mud and shut down to change the rubber. Nobody I know would continue operations without a working BOP.

BOP's drills are done at least 2 times a day to make sure the closure system is working as standard procedure.

BP (in Houston or New Orleans) has a control room where their top engineers , geologist and trouble shooters watch every sample taken from the cuttings , the gases coming out of the well, live stream video and telemetry from systems on the rig. BP has a video of all of this information at it's headquarters . It didn't blow up in the rig.

It would be hard to make a case that this was an accident.

I know you know most of this , but don't let anybody tell you this was accidental.

I believe drinking water is going to be the big killer.